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| | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | Well the other day in Glenn's "Dang, starts right up again" post I told about rewiring the ignition on the Yard dog. I fired it up and it ran fine so I thought it was fixed. So today I tried to use it. It was doing the same old thing. It would start and run until I stepped on the clutch then cut off.
Now I know it's not the ignition wiring. So I changed the carburetor. It was still doing the same old thing. I changed the capacitor. It was still doing the same old thing. I popped the fuel line off the carb and had June spin the engine. No fuel.
Guess what? O'reilly has it in stock. I ran to town, got a fuel pump and installed it. Go to crank it up and the battery runs down before I get fuel to the carb.
Finally got it started and it runs fine again. I still haven't done the work I need to do though. In fact it still has a post hole digger dangling from the hook that was on it when it went down the first time.
The old fuel pump was the glass bowl type and the new one was the sealed up type. I decided to take the old one apart to see what it was made of. To my surprise all the working parts looked good in it. The problem was a solid coat of gunk. There is a very fine screen in there about 1" diameter and it was blocked with gunk. I believe this thing could be cleaned up and re-used. I also believe the top half, that the glass bowl fits on, could be mated to a new bottom half if you needed a new diaphram and were concerned with looking original. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | Glad that you got the old dog running,,Napa also have the fuel pumps..I have an extra one that I keep with me, thought it was out. bought a new one and did not need it,, do you ever buy something and end up not needing it?Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 230 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 230 | So ;
Are you going to re-install the fuel pump ? or toss it in the parts box as I'd use it if you don't want it , ping me off list please ~
-Nate
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 332 Big Bolt Shop Curmudgeon | | Big Bolt Shop Curmudgeon Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 332 | Cletis, sounds like you ended up spending some quality time with the "Dawg." I've been through the fuel pump thing with 'Ol Blue, too, glass bowl on top and all.
Be sure to hang onto the old fuel pump with the glass bowl, 'cause you cain't get 'em anymore. The boys in Regtown have decided that having exposed glass in a fuel system may be detrimental to a whole lot of things.
Drivin' down a 2 lane country road in a stovebolt.....cowboy, it don't get no better than this!
1946 1-1/2 ton Chevy
"Ol Blue", or "THE BIG 'UN"
| | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | The anti-glass bowl regs must have just taken effect because I bought one last spring for my '55 first GMC. I settled for the other one this time because they had it in stock and I wanted to work. NAPA was closed Saturday afternoon.
The part numbers:
Glass bowl type- Carter, Federal-Mogul M751
Closed type- Carter, Federal-Mogul M2118
There is a rebuilt 235 in the yarddog's future and I'll clean up the old one and re-use it then. | | |
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