[6pack] Fuel pump

[Navarrette, Vance]

 	Michael:

	Your fuel pump has packed it in. Either replace the entire pump
or get a rebuild kit and overhaul it. What is likely to occur next is
gasoline leaking into the crankcase and diluting your oil. Accelerated
engine wear and a fire hazard are the results.

	Vance

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of samuelsma at aol.com
Sent: December 19, 2007 6:14 PM
To: 6pack at autox.team.net
Subject: [6pack] Fuel pump

Listers:

No sooner did I get my carburetor plumbing straightened out, when I
noticed a gas smell under the hood.? I found a leak coming from the fuel
pump.? After much examination with a light and a mirror, I isolated the
leak to the place where a bolt (10 mm) holds down the dome at the top of
the pump.? The leak was around the bolt head.? Tightening the bolt just
made the leak much worse.? When I removed the bolt and the dome, gas
started pouring out the dome from the fuel line.? I looked for a seal
between the bolt head and the dome, but there was just a flat metal
washer.? So I added a black rubber O-ring under the washer, and the leak
stopped immediately.? The outside of the pump is now bone-dry.? Is this
solution OK?

Michael
'76 Tahiti blue
CF57044U
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