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Jedi Hopeful
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So I've been taking apart a few things so that I can get my carbs off and do a rebuild on 'em. Of course I had to remove the fuel line from the fuel input rail to the carburetors. That of course leaked all over. So I plugged it up with a rag/towel and thought that would do it. Nope, it kept leaking.
Needless to say, I've tried many things over the past few days and it just leaks past all of them. I finally took of the rubber line that goes into the fuel pump and yikes!
fuel is POURING out of that line. It just doesn't stop. It pours out at quite a high rate (enough pressure that it's squirting UP out of the tube about 1 inch). I finally got it stopped (I think) by cutting the end of the hose off, putting in a large bolt, then clamping down on it with one of the hose clamps.
So the question is -- is this normal? It seems like an aweful lot of fuel pressure to be coming up the line BEFORE the fuel pump. One of the reasons I was going to rebiuld my carbs is because they seem to be leaking really bad (fuel drips off the bottom). Surely a gasket could help that, but if I'm having that much fuel pressure constantly pushing against my carbs when the car is off, what's to stop it from leaking all over?
Assuming this isn't normal, where do I start checking for problems? There's not anything between the fuel tank and the fuel pump, is there? It's gonna be a bugger of a time getting that hose back on the fuel pump once I'm done...
Thanks in advance! Lots of expertise here!
Needless to say, I've tried many things over the past few days and it just leaks past all of them. I finally took of the rubber line that goes into the fuel pump and yikes!
So the question is -- is this normal? It seems like an aweful lot of fuel pressure to be coming up the line BEFORE the fuel pump. One of the reasons I was going to rebiuld my carbs is because they seem to be leaking really bad (fuel drips off the bottom). Surely a gasket could help that, but if I'm having that much fuel pressure constantly pushing against my carbs when the car is off, what's to stop it from leaking all over?
Assuming this isn't normal, where do I start checking for problems? There's not anything between the fuel tank and the fuel pump, is there? It's gonna be a bugger of a time getting that hose back on the fuel pump once I'm done...
Thanks in advance! Lots of expertise here!