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Fuel pump (The original blog was written on 15th Aug. 2007)

Although the gas was refilled, the gas didn’t come to the carburetors.  The electric fuel pump was working, but it still did blank beating.  I replaced the pump soon after I bought this car…but it was about 20 years ago!  So, I decided to replace the electric fuel pump to new one, and to change the location of the pump from the engine room to the trunk room (because for the electric fuel pump to push the fuel is better than to pull the fuel).

I bought the Mitsuba electric fuel pump, fuel hoses and a fuel filter by auction and installed them in the trunk room.  (The wiring is tentative.  But I am ashamed because the trunk room is so dirty…)


However, even the new fuel pump was working well, the fuel didn’t come.  I guessed that the inlet of the fuel sender unit in the tank was sticking.  I remove the unit from the tank and found the rusty unit and its inlet was perfectly blocked by the rust (I forgot to take the picture with too much shocking condition).  Now I understood why the fuel couldn’t come.  

As the tentative solution I removed the rust from the unit and put the net at the inlet of the pipe not to come the rust in the fuel pipe, and reinstalled the unit in the tank.  I have to remove the rust of the tank and replace the fuel sender unit with new one.  It’s my future task with high priority.

When the fuel pump started, finally the fuel came to the engine room!  A little progress!!!

But soon I found new problems of course …
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