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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Fuel Draw
From: Bob Kitterer via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 10:21:11 -0700
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Has the CA gas eaten the diaphragm or seals in the pump?

Bob  Kitterer

1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise)
1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes
2013 Miata

Pay it Forward
Thanks Frank


> On Apr 4, 2019, at 7:47 AM, Larry Macy via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team=
.net> wrote:
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> If you pull the hose off the pump, does fuel flow there?? Or did you try t=
his already? Just checking.
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> Larry
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> Larry B. Macy, Ph.D., LMT
> lmacy@mac.com
> https://larrythemac.guru
> Morrisville, PA
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m sport. Whatever future humans have, it will be together.
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>> On Apr 4, 2019, at 9:09 AM, Michael MacLean via Spridgets <spridgets@auto=
x.team.net> wrote:
>>=20
>> Hoses are probably ten years old and ethanol proof type.  The pump is hig=
her than the pump pickup line.
>> Mike M
>>=20
>> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
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>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 4:19 AM, Howard Collins
>> <miniac7@aol.com> wrote:
>> How old are the fuel hoses?
>>=20
>> Is gravity supplying fuel from the tank to the pump?
>>=20
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>=20
>>> On Apr 4, 2019, at 2:27 AM, Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike@att.net> wr=
ote:
>>>=20
>>> I have the pump mounted just above the axle mounted at the top of the sh=
eet metal hump.  The filter is just before the carb.
>>> Mike M
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>>>=20
>>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 8:29 PM, Howard Collins
>>> <miniac7@aol.com> wrote:
>>> Where is the pump located, front or rear?
>>>=20
>>> Howard Collins=20
>>>=20
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>=20
>>> > On Apr 3, 2019, at 6:54 PM, Mike MacLean via Spridgets <spridgets@auto=
x.team.net> wrote:
>>> >=20
>>> >  My Bugeye has been sitting all winter.  I am trying to get it running=
 again after a front suspension rebuild and a rear axle leak repair.  All ki=
nds of mechanical work and new plugs, new bellows on the steering rack, etc.=
, etc. =20
>>> >    I replaced the old gas in the tank that sat all winter.  The gas in=
 California is crap and goes bad in a matter of weeks.  So, I turn the key a=
nd the Facet pump runs furiously, but no gas gets to the pump.  Of course it=
 won't start.  This is the same tank I have been using since the restoration=
 in 2000.  Pump gone bad?  This Facet pump replaced the old Facet pump sever=
al years ago.  What kind of length of service should I be getting from this p=
ump, if that is the problem?
>>> > Mike MacLean
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<html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3D=
utf-8"></head><body dir=3D"auto">Has the CA gas eaten the diaphragm or seals=
 in the pump?<br><br><div id=3D"AppleMailSignature" dir=3D"ltr"><span style=3D=
"text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bob &n=
bsp;Kitterer</span><div><span style=3D"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255,=
 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></div><div><span=
 style=3D"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto=
; font-size: 13pt;">1960 Austin Healey Sprite&nbsp;(Mk IV in disguise)</span=
></div><div><span style=3D"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-al=
ign: -webkit-auto; font-size: 13pt;">1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk&nbsp;III (=
Trevor) - still in boxes</span></div><div><span style=3D"background-color: r=
gba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: 13pt;">2013 Miat=
a</span></div><div><span style=3D"font-size: 13pt; text-align: -webkit-auto;=
 background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span styl=
e=3D"font-size: 13pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 2=
55, 255, 0);">Pay it Forward</span></div><div><span style=3D"background-colo=
r: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: 13pt;">Thank=
s Frank</span><br><br></div></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><br>On Apr 4, 2019, at 7:=
47 AM, Larry Macy via Spridgets &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:spridgets@autox.team.n=
et">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type=3D=
"cite"><div dir=3D"ltr"><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/ht=
ml; charset=3Dutf-8">If you pull the hose off the pump, does fuel flow there=
?? Or did you try this already? Just checking.<div class=3D""><br class=3D""=
></div><div class=3D"">Larry<br class=3D""><div class=3D"">
<div style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: H=
elvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; fo=
nt-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0=
px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-te=
xt-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=3D"Apple-interchange=
-newline">=E2=80=94&nbsp;</div><div style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); colo=
r: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal=
; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; te=
xt-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal=
; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"=
><br class=3D""></div><div style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0,=
 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-va=
riant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align:=
 start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-sp=
acing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Larry B.=
 Macy, Ph.D., LMT</div><div style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0=
, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-v=
ariant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align=
: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-s=
pacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href=
=3D"mailto:lmacy@mac.com"; class=3D"">lmacy@mac.com</a></div><div style=3D"ca=
ret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-s=
ize: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: norma=
l; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transfo=
rm: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:=
 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href=3D"https://larrythemac.guru"; class=3D"=
">https://larrythemac.guru</a></div><div style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);=
 color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: n=
ormal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: norma=
l; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: n=
ormal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: n=
one;">Morrisville, PA</div><div style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: r=
gb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; fo=
nt-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-a=
lign: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; wo=
rd-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br=
 class=3D""></div><div style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0=
); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant=
-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: star=
t; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing=
: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Being human i=
s not&nbsp;about individual&nbsp;survival or escape. It=E2=80=99s a&nbsp;tea=
m sport. Whatever&nbsp;future humans have, it&nbsp;will be together.</div><d=
iv style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Hel=
vetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font=
-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px=
; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text=
-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">~ douglas&nbsp;rushkoff</div>
</div>
<div><br class=3D""><blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D""><div class=3D"">On A=
pr 4, 2019, at 9:09 AM, Michael MacLean via Spridgets &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:=
spridgets@autox.team.net" class=3D"">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>&gt; wrote:=
</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=3D"">Hoses are prob=
ably ten years old and ethanol proof type.&nbsp; The pump is higher than the=
 pump pickup line.<div id=3D"yMail_cursorElementTracker_1554383355133" class=
=3D"">Mike M<br id=3D"yMail_cursorElementTracker_1554383222322" class=3D""><=
br class=3D""><div id=3D"ymail_android_signature" class=3D""><a id=3D"ymail_=
android_signature_link" href=3D"https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=3DInProd=
uct&amp;c=3DGlobal_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&amp;af_wl=3D=
ym&amp;af_sub1=3DInternal&amp;af_sub2=3DGlobal_YGrowth&amp;af_sub3=3DEmailSi=
gnature" class=3D"">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br class=3D""=
> <blockquote style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;" class=3D""> <div style=3D"font-f=
amily:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;" class=3D""> <div class=3D"">On Thu=
, Apr 4, 2019 at 4:19 AM, Howard Collins</div><div class=3D"">&lt;<a href=3D=
"mailto:miniac7@aol.com"; class=3D"">miniac7@aol.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div> </d=
iv> <div style=3D"padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1=
px solid #6D00F6;" class=3D""> <div id=3D"yiv5691948455" class=3D""><div cla=
ss=3D""><div class=3D"">How old are the fuel hoses?</div><div id=3D"yiv56919=
48455AppleMailSignature" class=3D""><br clear=3D"none" class=3D""></div><div=
 id=3D"yiv5691948455AppleMailSignature" class=3D"">Is gravity supplying fuel=
 from the tank to the pump?<br clear=3D"none" class=3D""><br clear=3D"none" c=
lass=3D"">Sent from my iPhone</div><div class=3D"yiv5691948455yqt4835870639 y=
QTDBase" id=3D"yiv5691948455yqt79268"><div class=3D""><br clear=3D"none" cla=
ss=3D"">On Apr 4, 2019, at 2:27 AM, Michael MacLean &lt;<a rel=3D"nofollow" s=
hape=3D"rect" ymailto=3D"mailto:rrengineer.mike@att.net"; target=3D"_blank" h=
ref=3D"mailto:rrengineer.mike@att.net"; class=3D"">rrengineer.mike@att.net</a=
>&gt; wrote:<br clear=3D"none" class=3D""><br clear=3D"none" class=3D""></di=
v><blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D""><div class=3D"">I have the pump mount=
ed just above the axle mounted at the top of the sheet metal hump.&nbsp; The=
 filter is just before the carb.<div id=3D"yiv5691948455yMail_cursorElementT=
racker_1554359209141" class=3D"">Mike M<br clear=3D"none" class=3D""><div id=
=3D"yiv5691948455yMail_cursorElementTracker_1554359201887" class=3D""><br cl=
ear=3D"none" id=3D"yiv5691948455yMail_cursorElementTracker_1554359066263" cl=
ass=3D""><br clear=3D"none" class=3D""><div id=3D"yiv5691948455ymail_android=
_signature" class=3D""><a rel=3D"nofollow" shape=3D"rect" id=3D"yiv569194845=
5ymail_android_signature_link" target=3D"_blank" href=3D"https://go.onelink.=
me/107872968?pid=3DInProduct&amp;c=3DGlobal_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig=
__AndroidUsers&amp;af_wl=3Dym&amp;af_sub1=3DInternal&amp;af_sub2=3DGlobal_YG=
rowth&amp;af_sub3=3DEmailSignature" class=3D"">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Andro=
id</a></div> <br clear=3D"none" class=3D""> <blockquote style=3D"margin:0 0 2=
0px 0;" class=3D""> <div style=3D"font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:#6D00=
F6;" class=3D""> <div class=3D"">On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 8:29 PM, Howard Coll=
ins</div><div class=3D"">&lt;<a rel=3D"nofollow" shape=3D"rect" ymailto=3D"m=
ailto:miniac7@aol.com" target=3D"_blank" href=3D"mailto:miniac7@aol.com"; cla=
ss=3D"">miniac7@aol.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div> </div> <div style=3D"padding:10=
px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6D00F6;" class=3D""> Wh=
ere is the pump located, front or rear?<br clear=3D"none" class=3D""><br cle=
ar=3D"none" class=3D"">Howard Collins <br clear=3D"none" class=3D""><br clea=
r=3D"none" class=3D"">Sent from my iPhone<br clear=3D"none" class=3D""><div c=
lass=3D"yiv5691948455yqt0417951294 yiv5691948455yQTDBase" id=3D"yiv569194845=
5yqtfd48826"><br clear=3D"none" class=3D"">&gt; On Apr 3, 2019, at 6:54 PM, M=
ike MacLean via Spridgets &lt;<a rel=3D"nofollow" shape=3D"rect" ymailto=3D"=
mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" href=3D"mailto:spridgets@=
autox.team.net" class=3D"">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br clear=3D=
"none" class=3D"">&gt; <br clear=3D"none" class=3D"">&gt;&nbsp;  My Bugeye h=
as been sitting all winter.&nbsp; I am trying to get it running again after a=
 front suspension rebuild and a rear axle leak repair.&nbsp; All kinds of me=
chanical work and new plugs, new bellows on the steering rack, etc., etc.&nb=
sp; <br clear=3D"none" class=3D"">&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; I replaced the old gas i=
n the tank that sat all winter.&nbsp; The gas in California is crap and goes=
 bad in a matter of weeks.&nbsp; So, I turn the key and the Facet pump runs f=
uriously, but no gas gets to the pump.&nbsp; Of course it won't start.&nbsp;=
 This is the same tank I have been using since the restoration in 2000.&nbsp=
; Pump gone bad?&nbsp; This Facet pump replaced the old Facet pump several y=
ears ago.&nbsp; What kind of length of service should I be getting from this=
 pump, if that is the problem?<br clear=3D"none" class=3D"">&gt; Mike MacLea=
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