• Hi Guest!
    You can help ensure that British Car Forum (BCF) continues to provide a great place to engage in the British car hobby! If you find BCF a beneficial community, please consider supporting our efforts with a subscription.
    There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Subscribers don't see this gawd-aweful banner
Tips
Tips

Fuel pump

Share this page

Jayrz

Jayrz

Jedi Trainee
Offline
Yup, all excited to drive my car with seats in it and actually see how it runs after doing a colortiune adjust of the mixture, she ran about 5 minutes around the neighborhood and then stalled and wouldn't re-start. Then I noticed the lack of ticking from the fuel pump when I cycled the key.

So I am going to take this off this morning and have a look, anything in particular that fails on these pumps?

Jay
 
Usually with an SU pump the points crud up and don't pass electrons. Some #600 "wet-or-dry" sandpaper and 'dress' the points. If it's an electronic replacement, it's in need of replacement.
 
Jay, what car are we talking about? Not a later (1500) Midget with a mechanical fuel pump? If so, there wouldn't be a ticking, as it's engine-driven.
 
Yes, 1961 Midget.

well I took it off and apart and cleaned the points with some 400 grit and wd40, dried it all off and generally cleaned the whole thing and tested with some power.. and.......it works. put it back in the car and she ticks away till the bowls are filled just as before.

thanks for the help guys, I especially like the fact it costs me nothing to get it working again.

Jay
 
Always fun to really fix something.
 
I coulda said: Whack the bulkhead near th' pump wif a rock... if it ticks a few times, the points need dressin'. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

Once drove the MGB from *half-way* across Alligator Alley to Miami thwuppin' the rear bulkhead with my four pound granite "surrogate parking brake" every thirty seconds or so. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
Woof Dr Entropy! What a way to get across FLA. Love your list of cars BTW. I just got back from LOG27 yesterday afternoon and it was a pretty good time. Of course there are those who make you think you are actually at a Star Trek convention instead of a Lotus gathering!

Ummm, no offense to any of you Trekkies out there.
 
Only had to do it half way /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif Arm wuz a bit knacker'd by the time we made goal. Put a Facett on it from a local Partz-R-Us "down there" and it's been that way ever since. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Got any pix of the Lotus confab? Huh? Pretty-please? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif


...and don't tell me you ATC guys go unprepared. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Got pix that'll have to be downloaded from the camera, soon I promise. I think my favorite car was a blood red S2 Elan that was just perfect with minilite knock-offs on it.
Ate breakfast Saturday morning with a fella who drove his Elise to Colorado from Florida with an 80lb labradpr in the passenegr seat... of course this was on the way back as he had originally driven straight thru to the Historic races at Monterey!
Oh, and I have a new soft spot for the original Elite, gawd a mighty those cars have the most beutiful lines and there was 5 or 6 there, oretty sure the blue and silver one won best of show.
 
I've lost track of a friend who had a lovely Carnival red S-3 coupe, silver +2 and a yellow S-2 Europa... Lived in Denver a while. Wonder if he was there.... snowball's chance in Hades of finding him, but that woulda been a place to narrow the odds.
 
You would have liked the 65 Elan Autocross car.... this thing had a fuel injected Duratec 2.0 liter engine in it pushing around 245hp,,, and man did it rock at the cones sunday morning. Was suprised to see how well that motor fit in the Elan, dry sumped of course. Another fella I spoke to quite a bit had a zetec in his twinc Europa and fuel injected with suzuki gsxr600 throttle bodies that were "managed" by a mega-squirt ecu. Very slick setup and relatively cheap, said it ran like any new fuel injected car and pulled to the moon. Would love to do that with the 69 Elan but runs pretty good now with the Strombergs finally sorted correctly.
 
I don't mean to hijack this conversation at all, but when you refer to a dry sumped engine, what does that mean? I regularly hear the term but it's not enough of my world to understand.

tia
 
JP, in a dry sump system, there is no oil pan per se, just a basic cover over the bottom of the engine. The oil is kept in a remote reservoir, and fed to the engine by means of an externally driven pump. This setup prevents oil starvation by eliminating the inherent slosh of the oil in the pan due to acceleration, braking and cornering, that can move the oil away from the pickup tube. It also limits the windage of the oil on the crankshaft, reducing parasitic drag on the rotating mass. Dry sump pumps also typically deliver higher volume than conventional pumps.
It'll set you back about $2500 to dry sump a Sprite by the time you buy the tank, pump, pump drive, pan, hoses and filters.
Jeff
 
thank you - no plans yet to dry sump Ms Triss though
 
Back
Top