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They charge us for stuff they find lying in the ground; now it's for stuff floating in the air ...

Dad was a chemistry professor back when Richfield (now ARCO) was bragging about the boron in their gasoline. He once assigned his analytic chemistry class to determine how much boron was actually in the stuff; only to find that there was none! ARCO of course wouldn't tell him; but he got the only supplier of boron in the US to tell him that they had only sold a sample, ONCE ...
 
Brought the pump back to NAPA and they ordered a replacement one. Hopefully it gets here in the next week (unlikely) so I can drive the car before going back to school. Ugh, school.

On a bright side, I got my nissan back to running so I can actually get to school .
 
For the record, Raleigh's fuels (and that for all the Research Triangle area) will be oxygenated. However, I agree with those above who pointed out that your (last) pump has almost no hours on it, therefore, it's unlikely that the ethanol (at any concentration) would have caused damage in a day.

In your opening post you said you had Moggie and a 4. You also mentioned that you're in school. What color are your cars and out of curiosity... what school are you attending?
 
The morgan is cherry red, wish I had a 4 but I just have a green nissan 240.

I'm at the NCSU vet school.
 
Is the Morgan in Raleigh or Charlotte? If the Morgan is here and you need help, I believe the local MG car club has a couple of Morgan owners. (They are a very open MG club these days). I'm sure those guys would be more than happy to help. For that matter, feel free to contact me if there is anything I can help you with.
 
For the time being the Morgan is living in Charlotte, hopefully it will make it up to Raleigh one of these days though!
 
I have had a similar problenm with my fuel pump from TRF. Worked great several hundred maybe thousands of miles (odometer on blink). The symptoms were the same, hand pump OK but engine wouldn't run pump. The issue turned out to be the pivot pin inside the pump. Iseated it back into position and reset the stakes with a punch. Several hundred miles later and no recurring issues. I now have a spare pump in the boot.
 
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