Message text written by Geo Hahn
>The blanking plate should be quite simple -- but it seems that with just
>a bit more effort one could preserve a look of originality. If the
>diaphragm and it's actuating rod were removed from a stock fuel pump and
>replaced with a piece of sheet metal using the outer edge of the
>diaphragm as gaskets one could hide the electric fuel pump and route the
>fuel thru the old pump. I don't think it would even be necessary to
>disable the lower end of the pump mechanism or remove the check valves.
Sure, assuming that the reason for replacing the pump is not because it
leaks. And if you first fix the leaks you will now have a funcitoning
pumps.
>Result would look original with the added advantage of keeping the handy
>sediment bowl/filter.
Of course, if you hide the electric pump back at the tank (where it
belongs) the filter on the inlet to that pump will catch everything and the
sediment bowl is rendered redundant. Strike that, vestigial.
I'm sure you could fake the hoses to the pump and hide th real ones and
bypass the pump altogether. Besides, if you keep the tank full you don't
even need a pump.
Dave
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