jsneddon
Jedi Knight
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For starters you should know that this car has been sitting since 1991. I finally am at a point where I am working on getting it back on the road.
I wasn't getting any fuel to the carbs so I flushed out my gas tank and cleared a major blockage in the fuel line just past the tank. Everything started up and ran well enough to get around the block. So then I rebuilt the carbs and when I went to start it back up I wasn't getting fuel to the carbs again.
I had tried starting it a couple of years ago and found I wasn't getting any fuel so I bought a new pump from moss and put it on with no sucess and life got in the way again and it just sat (obviously if I had spent more time on it I would have found the blockage from the tank).
When I pulled off the pump bowl yesterday I found that the cork gasket for the bowl had completely disentegrated. I mean completely... there was nothing left of the gasket bigger than a grain of sand and it had nicely covered the screen completly.
I dug out the old fuel pump (an original with the nifty priming lever) and found that it had a nice thick rubber gasket instead of cork. But this gasket has spent the last 40 years getting as hard as a rock. I put it on for grins but since it doesn't compress anymore it just leaks like a sieve.
So...
I see moss has a "fuel pump rebuild kit" for 20 bucks but it doesn't explain just what you get.
I'm not too thrilled with the cork seeing what happened to this one after only 2 years.
Does anyone have a source for the rubber gasket?
Has anyone had this kind of problem with the cork on these new remanufactured (and I feel inferior) pumps?
Is there anything special about this cork or could I just cut myself a new one out of the standard sheet of gasket cork that I've got from Pep Boys?
Thanks.
I wasn't getting any fuel to the carbs so I flushed out my gas tank and cleared a major blockage in the fuel line just past the tank. Everything started up and ran well enough to get around the block. So then I rebuilt the carbs and when I went to start it back up I wasn't getting fuel to the carbs again.
I had tried starting it a couple of years ago and found I wasn't getting any fuel so I bought a new pump from moss and put it on with no sucess and life got in the way again and it just sat (obviously if I had spent more time on it I would have found the blockage from the tank).
When I pulled off the pump bowl yesterday I found that the cork gasket for the bowl had completely disentegrated. I mean completely... there was nothing left of the gasket bigger than a grain of sand and it had nicely covered the screen completly.
I dug out the old fuel pump (an original with the nifty priming lever) and found that it had a nice thick rubber gasket instead of cork. But this gasket has spent the last 40 years getting as hard as a rock. I put it on for grins but since it doesn't compress anymore it just leaks like a sieve.
So...
I see moss has a "fuel pump rebuild kit" for 20 bucks but it doesn't explain just what you get.
I'm not too thrilled with the cork seeing what happened to this one after only 2 years.
Does anyone have a source for the rubber gasket?
Has anyone had this kind of problem with the cork on these new remanufactured (and I feel inferior) pumps?
Is there anything special about this cork or could I just cut myself a new one out of the standard sheet of gasket cork that I've got from Pep Boys?
Thanks.