A beat up box arrived

[Tinster]

Well, just looky here what was sitting on my front
porch this AM. A beat up, water drenched, sodden,
partially opened and retaped shut Priority Mail box.

Thankfully the contents were packed in a plastic, ziplock
baggie.

An awesome gift from fellow BCF member Browsky. A 100%
restored, rebuilt, refurbished, Jeff Palya micro-polished,
mechanical fuel pump for my recently operational 1969 TR6.
Now I can swap out my jerry rigged "made in India pump" for
the Real McCoy.

Thanks so much Paul, WOW!!! What a great gift.

best regards,

dale

 

[TR4]

Very nice, ask and you shall receive. What's next on your list Dale?

 

[71tr]

That looks great Dale and the box just cracks me up.

 

[Brooklands]

It reminds me of the package we sent to our daughter one year containing Easter Candy. Because the local Postal sub station used the wrong color ink to cancel the stamps, it was dunked in water to prevent explosion, then returned to us.

 

[Brosky]

What is it with the PA Post Offices???

I mailed my daughter in western PA some cards two weeks ago and she still hasn't received them. She mailed me a CD in November and it took three weeks to get here. It's the same if TRF mails to me. UPS is fine, but the mail finds a slow horse to send it on.

Dale, now you know why I packed it like I did.

 

[NutmegCT]

Brooklands: "... it was dunked in water to prevent explosion, then returned to us."

now Dave knows never to send Pop Tarts through the USPS.

T.

 

[Tinster]

Paul-

Thanks again!!

A true story.

Back a few years, I flying from Philly to Chicago
on business. A nice clear day and we were over western
Pennsylvania when the Captain announced:

" Ladies and Gentlemen- we are now flying over Altoona, Pennsylvania:
- please set your watches back 200 years."

You'd have to know the area to get the chuckle.
I believe Priority Mail in western PA means a two mule
team buckboard------ instead of a lone guy riding a nag.

d

 

[Guest]

Paul, is that the old OE fuel pump off my car that I gave you! If it is, I feel good that my car may have been a "organ donor" for Dale's baby. Life is good.

 

[Guest]

Or, if it is, I want it back, it looks so good.

 

[Jerseygirl]

Wow! That pump is beautiful.

 

[philman]

Looks like the package went through the Small Parcel Bundle Smasher.

 

[Brosky]

Bill,

It is not your old pump. Dale got one of the pumps that I bought on eBay.

This is your old pump, which will be going on my new engine.

And no, you cannot have it back......

 

[Jerseygirl]

Another WOW! Wish my pump looked like those two.

 

[Brosky]

I had a lot of time on my hands this winter. Since I gave up cold weather golf, the Triumph has improved greatly.

 

[John_Mc]

Here's the security camera footage from outside Dale's house...
special delivery

 

[Tinster]

Just wondering?

Are the inflow and outflow fuel pipes the same diameter?
If yes, what diameter pipe?

Also, the 2 brass fittings for the pump- with the holes in
the middle for the fuel pipes-are they tapered or straight?

I have one old brass fitting and it seems to be straight.
I can spin it into both the pump holes with no binding.

The brass fittings at Ace Hardware and Home Despot all seem
to be tapered and bind tightly after maybe not even one
revolution.

thanks,

dale

 

[angelfj1]

Yes, but I want to see it what it looks like after its installed and on the road for a month???

 

[MGTF1250Dave]

Aloha Dale,

The threads on the input/output fittings should be straight. That is why the compression sleeve is needed to make the seal between the fuel line and the pump. Tightening the fitting crushes the compression sleeve against the fuel line and the taper in the fuel pump.

Measure the ID of the hole in your brass fitting, I suspect it is slightly larger the 5/16".

 

[TR3driver]

Don't know if this applies to the TR6 pump, but it does to the TR3. The factory compression sleeves were a different design than modern ones, tapered on only one side instead of both sides. The result is that modern compression sleeves frequently will not seal, because the nut bottoms in the threads before compressing the sleeve far enough.

I solved my problem by machining a custom nut on the lathe, but Scott Suhring's solution looks more practical.

 

[Banjo]

Paul-

Thanks again!!

A true story.

Back a few years, I flying from Philly to Chicago
on business. A nice clear day and we were over western
Pennsylvania when the Captain announced:

" Ladies and Gentlemen- we are now flying over Altoona, Pennsylvania:
- please set your watches back 200 years."

You'd have to know the area to get the chuckle.
I believe Priority Mail in western PA means a two mule
team buckboard------ instead of a lone guy riding a nag.

d

I once had to take a truck and trailer down to Altoona to pick up a TR3. We had sold it through a shop I was working at, and the customer was having problems. Turned out the inside of the fuel tank was nasty and clogging the pipe.
But I found some nice little twisty roads just outside of Altoona to go for a test drive while trying to diagnost the issue.
Definatly a step back in time in that region.