[Spridgets] Fuel pump

[Weslake1330]

I'm with the clogged filter diagnosis.  My experience with a pin hole in
the fuel line (rubbed by the handbrake rod) was that I'd get fuel
starvation at high rpm/high speed.

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 at 01:04, Kevin Valentine via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I had a Triumph Herald that acted like you describe.
>
> It would occasionally suck air thru a pinhole in the fuel line between the
> tank and the pump.   It was a metal fuel line that was rusted just enough
> for a pinhole to form.  The pinhole was at a point in the line that was
> above the fuel tank, so it did not leak fuel.   The  pump was mechanical
> and would not re-prime itself.  I would  blow into the fuel filler until I
> pushed enough fuel to the front of the car to prime the pump and restart
> the engine.......  I was 16 years old and knew nothing about British
> cars......  (Still don't).
>
> I had another British car that would occasionally act the same way.  It
> turned out,  the vented fuel cap had been blocked with rust and the car
> would stop running after a short drive if the tank was near full.  It took
> me a while to find the problem, but the best hint was, the more fuel that
> was in the tank the shorter the distance the car would travel before
> stopping.  The more air that was in the tank, the longer it took for the
> fuel to stop flowing.
>
> How often does it act like this?   I seem to remember you having a problem
> like this a short time ago????
>
> Kevin
> Tuscarora, Pa
> ------------------------
>
> spridgets at autox.team.net
>
> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
> Suggested annual donation: $12.75
>
> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets
> http://autox.team.net/archive
>
> Unsubscribe/Manage:
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/weslake1330@gmail.com
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/spridgets/attachments/20210111/f148f457/attachment.htm>