[Spridgets] Doh!

[Michael MacLean]

 OK, I was wrong again.  I have the wires and fuel lines hooked up correctly.  I thought I had the black wire going to ground until I got under the car and saw the black wire to ground had a red stripe.  The other wire was all black and went to power.  So everything is hooked up correctly for a positive ground car, but it is still not drawing fuel from the tank.  The only original parts in this system now is a small portion of steel fuel line that exits the tank for the pickup in the new fuel tank, the steel fuel line that runs from the output side of the pump.  It is connected to the pump with a short piece of rubber fuel line..  That original steel line then runs under the car to the engine compartment and connects to the single HIF44 carb with a piece of flexible line.  There is a filter installed in this flexible hose line.  There is also a filter cut into the flexible line just before the "in" connection of the pump coming from the tank.  Still no fuel draw.  It's not a weak battery.  I charged it all night on a float charger.  Does the ECCO fuel pump have to be primed?  I'm stumped.Mike MacLean
    On Saturday, October 23, 2021, 08:02:05 AM PDT, Larry Macy via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:  
 
 Not  exactly that, but BTDT many times. “Doh” is right.
Larry


On Oct 23, 2021, at 3:04 AM, Michael MacLean via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
     I just replaced the fuel tank on my Bugeye today.  The coating inside the tank was breaking down and clogging the fuel filter.  The fuel pump was also replaced with an ECCO pump.  The location of the pump was changed.  I had a Facet pump screwed to the top of the arch above the axle.  It was a ways to draw the fuel, but the Facet did OK while it worked.  The ECCO pump was installed to the vertical panel in front of the axle.  Closer to the level of the tank pickup outlet tube.  If any of you have installed a fuel tank in a Bugeye, you know what a bitch it is to route the filler neck out the hole in the rubber bung in the rear deck lid.  Not a one person job.  I was lucky a friend dropped by while I was in the middle of the installation.       After all was installed and the fuel tubing was re-routed to accomodate the new pump I put a couple of gallons of gas in the tank and turned the key.  The fuel pump started clicking, but still no fuel to the engine.  What the heck? At this point my back was starting to hurt.  I had skinned my right knee and my neck was sore.  Somehow being 70 and getting under a Bugeye pushing a fuel tank in place  is not the physical therapy I was hoping for.  At this point I said screw it.  It was time for supper and I decided to take a whack at it tomorrow.      Well at about 10 PM, I had a thought.  Did I hook up the fuel lines backward?  So, I went out to the garage and lay down on the floor to take a look.  What I found had me going "Doh" like Homer Simpson.  First thing I noticed was the black wire was ground to the body and the red wire to the power connection.  My Bugeye is a positive ground car. Tomorrow I switch the wires.  "Doh!"Mikke MacLean------------------------

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