<VV> looking to buy a spare fuel pump

[Mark Durham]

Jim, also there was a thing about unstaked check valves inside the pump
housings not to long ago. I just took mine off the car and carefully
dissasembled it then when I saw the two valves were staked in, put it
back together.
I bought a Airtex from my local flaps, and like the Ad Frank supplied,
it was updated for modern fuels and the diaphram material looked
perfect even though it was 2 years old at the time, and works too well,
I had to add the spectre pressure regulator to keep from overpowering
the needle and seats. its almost 4 years old.
Mark Durham

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From: Frank DuVal
Sent: 3/29/2012 16:10
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> looking to buy a spare fuel pump
I do not remember anything about the heads of the screws being a "tell"
for a bad pump.

There was a time the rubber diaphragms of the pump were made from
inferior material. You could tell those pumps as there was no visible
fabric when you looked at the edge of the diaphragms. Compare several
and see if any have just plain black rubber instead of the fabric
reinforced style.

I have had to retighten the screws on pumps to cure leaking that starts
after installation. Some people retighten them right after installation.

There should be a tag with 4886 or such hanging off one screw besides
the made in USA stamp on the top cover.

It is amazing how many sources of this pump are still around:

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=corvair+fuel+pump&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=17112212090370950937&sa=X&ei=Bet0T-PiLojO2wXRz7SaDQ&ved=0CE8Q8wIwAA

My most recent purchases were from John Sweet in Pennsylvania.

http://johnscorvairparts.vpweb.com/About-Us.html

I would use that pump you already have, when you need one. Then buy
another spare to sit on the shelf.

Frank DuVal

On 3/29/2012 5:42 PM, jeandelucca at aol.com wrote:
> hi, can anyone reccomend a fuel pump that will be okay for today's modern fuels? i bought one from clark"s about three years ago, when i looked at it (it's still new in the bag) it had the hex head screws. i seem to remember reading somewhere that there was a problem with these hex head pumps. is this just a myth? the only other marking on the new pump is "made in usa". thanks for any help, jim
>
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