<VV> those pesky fuel pumps!!

[Bill Elliott]

For some time (back about 20 years ago when fuel pumps had many more 
issues than they do today) one of the issues was that apparently some 
manufacturer used both '60/61 pumps (with a long push rod) and '61+ 
pumps (with the shorter push rod) to develop their rebuilt units... not 
knowing that they were dealing with two different styles of pumps, they 
(again, apparently) used an average length... to long for the later cars 
which resulted in early failures of the diaphragm (this was in addition 
to the bad diaphragms being used). So a good tech tip back them was 
grinding off a bit of the pump rod to bring it back to appropriate specs...

But this is ancient history and unless the failed pumps are all 20 year 
old NAPA/FLAPS units from the parts archives, you're not likely to have 
either of these issues... but those 20 year old pumps are still out 
there in places.... so this is a product I would never buy from anyone 
but a Corvair vendor...

Bill

J R Read_HML wrote:

>That would seem highly unlikely as the rod comes with the pump.  I believe 
>that only the '60 and very early '61s use the longer rod.  The number on the 
>metal tab attached to the top of the pump should be 4886 for all others.
>Later, JR
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>From: <corvair at mts.net>
>To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:02 PM
>Subject: Re: <VV> those pesky fuel pumps!!
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>>I seem to remember something about different lengths of fuel pump pushrods? 
>>Could the wrong pushrod be overstressing the pumps?
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>>Les
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>>Message: 7
>>Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:51:35 -0700
>>From: corvairs <corvairs at pacifier.com>
>>Subject: Re: <VV> those pesky fuel pumps!!
>>To: Ron <ronh at owt.com>
>>Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org, Markpowhatan at aol.com
>>Message-ID: <49DA4127.60108 at pacifier.com>
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>>Mark - There is nothing normal about any of this. You have an
>>identifiable and fixable problem. Lon
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>>www.corvairunderground.com
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>>>Mark said
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>>>>I have a early 63 Turbo that  eats a fuel pump about every 200  miles. 
>>>>The
>>>>current eighth one is squirting gas out the side of the pump as  2 
>>>>others
>>>>finally did too.(some just quit..one put gas in the oil)  It  hasn't
>>>>mattered where
>>>>I buy them.
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