Tom,
Funny you should mention the <noisy> fuel pump...I
will not get pulled into PO stories!!, but I do have a
couple of questions, Off List Of Course <grin>
Mike
--- Thomas Walter <twalter@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> No kidding.
>
> Hmm, wait until Mike Harper comments on this one!
> <grin>.
>
> Someone, not I, added a NOISY electric fuel pump
> back by
> the gas tank. Mounted it under the car, but solid to
> the
> sheet metal. It is LOUD!
>
> Mazda used some nice little rubber "isolation
> mounts" on
> the rotary engined vehicles when mounting a fuel
> pump.
> Always meant to snag a couple from a pick-n-pull
> yard to
> install back there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
> datsunmike wrote:
>
> > Marc,
> >
> > There shouldn't be any rubber hose past the
> firewall but who can tell what a
> > PO did?
> >
> > Mike
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "snyler" <marc@animalfirm.com>
> > To: "Laurie" <SPL311RDST@aol.com>; " roadster
> List"
> > <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:49 AM
> > Subject: Re: Does gas tank slosh-seal go bad ?
> >
> >
> >
> >>Laurie wrote
> >>
> >>
> >>>So, the question is: anyone have any bad
> experience w/ "slosh-sealer"???
> >>>
> > At
> >
> >>>this point I don't even know if a PO had used any
> on the car. Does this
> >>>sealer ever go bad & peel off ? Anyone know of
> long-term effects of MTBE
> >>>
> > (or
> >
> >>>whatever the heck else they put in the gas these
> days) on this sealer ?
> >>>
> > Any
> >
> >>>other guesses as to what it is?
> >>>
> >>Our Dodge pickup ate fuel pumps for awhile(a total
> of 3 in 2 years)
> >>turned out rotting rubber fuel line was constantly
> clogging the filters.
> >>The bockage, it seems caused the pumps to fail.
> Since the line was
> >>swapped out it's been okay... fingers crossed, it
> is a Chrysler product
> >>;^)
> >>
> >> Does the roadster have any rubber fuel line
> upstream of the firewall?
> >>
> >>-Marc T.
> >>
>
>>==========================================================================
> >>Marc Tyler
> >>Designer,
> >>Animal Firm
> >>830-324-6578
> >>www.animalfirm.com
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