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I've solved most of my oil leak problems except the timing cover seal, which is scheduled to happen in a couple of weeks. I've found that if I putt to work and stay off the highway I go thru about a qt every 4-5 days, but if I run down the highway oil consumption is MUCH faster. Anyway, yesterday I was almost a qt low and was going to top off when I got homew from work. Much to my suprise, I was overfull. My valves had been clattering a lot more on the way home and surnuff, oil has gas in it. I've pulled the old fuel pump(glass topped A/C) and am installing the standard pump off my old 235. This looks like a standard pump with a brass colored flat top that has the inlet and outlet ports upright from the flat top. The old fuel lines did not line up with the new pump. I removed the line fittings and put a
3/4 wrench where the line fittings screw in and rotated the top of the pump about 1/3 of a turn.Now everything lines up. After thinking about this I'm wondering if that was the correct thing to do and if I could have damaged the new pump? I won't have it back together till Sat. morning, so I have to wait and see. I haven't been to the vendors yet, but I know that you used to be able to rebuild the old pumps. I'd like to repair the glass topped one for future use. I don't recall seeing any kits listed. Anybody ever done this and have I screwed up my new pump?

You should be able to buy a new fuel pump with the glass bowl at your local auto parts store. There are still a few pump rebuild kits out there, but I don't think anyone is making them anymore.

I'm trying to figure out what you did to your pump, but I can tell what style of pump you had. The 235s that I have seen had one of three styles: the glass bowl on top like your 216, a double action pump with built in vacuum pump, and a replacement with no filter that has a flat lid that screws on in place of the glass bowl.

This is way different from the A/C glass bowl. The entire top is much larger in diameter than the glass top and flat. The inlet and outlet stick up from the flat top of the pump like a 3/4 bolt head about an inch tall . The threads for the fuel line fittings are on 1 of the flats. The entire top is brass colored and has almost a flange that covers the base of the pump. The top rotated to line up the fittings.