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There's nothing a Corvair Vendor (Who has to pay for warrantees out of 
pocket on "defective" fuel pumps) loves to hear more than the suggestion 
that you manually run a pump up and down (with no limitation on pushrod 
travel).  Lon

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Tony Underwood wrote:

>At 07:23 hours 11/08/2004 -0800, Frog Princezz wrote:
>
>>Hey All,
>>Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!!!  I know you guys/gals are thinking... Dang she's been
>>
>messing with that fuel pump forever, is she just not listening to anything
>we tell her?!?!
> 
>If the pump isn't working...  have you confirmed that it's *capable* of
>working?    Run a rubber hose from a utility gas can into the inlet of the
>pump.   Do pushups.   The pump will be making some distressingly humorous
>albeit faint "duck-donkey" noises if it's working (but empty) and will
>eventually suck fuel up and into the pump and to the carbs.   You'll notice
>a difference in the sounds the pump makes once it begins moving fuel
>through itself... the duck-donkey noises will stop and you should be able
>to hear fuel actually entering the carbs.       
>
>
>>My car is stored someplace other than home so I can't get to it
>>
>everyday... this restoration/repair project is going to seem to drag out
>forever until I get her home then I can just pop out to the garage whenever.
>
>'Til then, Commute...
>
>
>>Me knowing nothing really about cars... I just don't wanna buy up a bunch
>>
>of new parts just because mine are old when the old ones could be in
>perfectly good working order.  As in the case of the fuel pump "some of you
>have told me awhile ago to purchase two new pumps one for the car the other
>for insurance, While others have suggested going electric."  Believe me
>everyone I'm listening to you but I just had to find out the long hard way
>that the fuel pump wasn't working and not a clogged line somewhere.
>WELL... now I know and have the muscle to prove it.
>
>
>Now:   Did you CONFIRM that there's no clogged fuel line or plugged tank
>pickup?    Can you station someone by the gas cap, listening, while you
>attach a rubber hose to the fuel line (after you disconnect it from the
>pump, obviously)... while you blow through that hose?     If the line is
>clear, you should be blowing gasoline bubbles into the tank and the person
>listening to the filler spout should be able to hear it.   If you cannot
>and they cannot, something is clogged.    If you can't blow through the
>line, it's likely that the pump can't suck through it either.    
>
>That's when you try the trick listed above with the gas can and the hose to
>the pump, bypassing the fuel line and tank altogether.   
>
> 
>
>>And as far as being single... I'm married to my Vair!   Aren't we all?!?
>>
>
>
>I'm practicing polygamy...  more than one 'Vair.    
>
>
>
>tony..   
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