[Healeys] Tapitty tapping of Fuel Pump

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could we use copper or aluminum clothes pins? Hank

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Tapitty tapping of Fuel Pump

 Jim, A cloths pin is 1/2" wide. Not enough insulation & definitely
not a "heat sink". Gary Hodson

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     Turning liquid (gasoline) into vaper or gas (phase change from
liquid to gas) requires HEAT input .Or pressure drop.....Insulate from
heat, no vapor 
 Jim

      On Monday, June 22, 2020, 10:21:10 AM PDT, warthodson--- via
Healeys  wrote:  

    Explain how they work, please. Gary Hodson

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 To: Alan Seigrist 
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 Sent: Mon, Jun 22, 2020 10:46 am
 Subject: Re: [Healeys] Tapitty tapping of Fuel Pump

    wooden clothes pins worked great when I lived in Los Angeles.  
   On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 7:09 PM Alan Seigrist  wrote:
    Hi Gary - 
 If you start hearing the pump run really quickly, it can be
indicative of vapor lock getting back into the fuel line... can happen
at the end of long trips. It's because the fuel starts vaporizing
around where the line goes into the floats, and the float jet then is
no longer cutting off fuel flow because it is pushing vapor into the
float bowls, which leaks out the overflow tube. As long as your car is
running it should be okay, you might use more fuel than normal. Try
wiring a piece of wood to the incoming fuel line - this is an old
trick with Atlantics to act as a heat sink on hot days and stop vapor
lock on the Atlantics which use mechanical fuel pumps. 
 Best, 
 Alan  
  On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 9:12 AM editorgary--- via Healeys  wrote:
   Yesterday I took my Healey BN& out for its first good run of the
season -- 75 miles of southern Oregon backroads -- with our local
Rogue Euro Car Group. Everything was terrific from start to finish.
Car started on the first push of the button after sitting for six
weeks, ran smoothly from start to finish, never faltered in restarts,
everything nominal. 
 Except that, towards the end of the run on a pretty hot day (in mid
90s though the car never ran warm all day) as I was cruising along
about 40 mph, the fuel pump started tapping at a high rate of speed
and pretty continuously -- certain enough so I could hear it behind
me. I have a standard original-spec points-style fuel pump, purchased
new from Moss about 10 years ago and running without any issues every
since. 

  Any thoughts from anyone -- could it just have been the heat? As
noted, the car never missed a beat, so fuel was getting through the
carbs smoothly at all times. 

  Anyone? 
  Gary Anderson 
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