[Spridgets] It's alive!

[Linda Grunthaner]

Super nice.
Linda

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 9:14 PM Michael MacLean via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

>      Finally after numerous attempts the Bugeye is running!  The new ECCO
> fuel pump delivers more fuel than the Facet pump at the correct pressure.
> This time I blew out the steel fuel lines with compressed air.  Apparently
> that did the trick.  Blowing air in the tank to pressurize it was not
> successful.  This time the pump was self priming.
>      When I was running the Facet pump, fuel would fill the clear fuel
> filter only at the bottom of the clear capsule.  I never understood how the
> car ran OK like that.  Now the fuel filter is full under pump pressure and
> no overflow from the carb.  With the ECCO pump the car started immediately
> cold.  With the Facet pump it would take a little longer to fire up.  Now
> it won't idle, but I attribute that to old gas sitting in the carb for over
> eight months.  I plan to take it out tomorrow and try to blow it out on the
> freeway. If that doesn't do it.  The single HIF44 carb comes off for
> disassembly and cleaning.  Woohoo!  Alive!   Just in time for the new gas
> prices.
> Mike MacLean
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