<VV> Fuel Pump Going Bad??

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Anil - It is unlikely to be the pump. By the way, why does this car have 
a fuel return line?  Lon

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Anil Mittal wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>  I have a 66 with a 140 and Power Glide. The fuel pump on the car is
>a stock one from one of the Corvair vendors which is less than 5
>years old and I am wondering if it is going bad here are the symptoms:
>
>  A few weeks ago the car was running great then just kind of felt
>like it ran out of gas. It I pumped the accelerator pedal 15 to 20
>times I could get the car to start and run for about 3 seconds then
>it would die. I got the car towed home and thought that by chance
>both primary carb fuel stones had by chance clogged. I opened up the
>stones and replaced them with new spairs even though they looked
>fine. The car started right up and ran great for another week, then
>the same thing happened. I then replaced the rubber hose at the gas
>tank. The hose that was replaced was "vapor return hose" which was
>all cracked and nasty. I then replaced the hose in the rear left
>wheel well with proper fuel hose as well as installed an inline fuel
>filter there. The car again ran great for about a week. The next time
>this happined I noticed that I was on empty, thinking I ran out of
>gas I put a few gallons of gas in the car and had no luck getting it
>running. I could pump the accelerator pedal 20 times and it would run
>for a few seconds and die, no flodding and no raw gas smell which was
>really weird. I left the car on the side of the road and came back
>the next morning. With a little cranking the car started up and I
>drove it the 2 miles home. This was about a week ago and I have not
>touched the car since. Would this indicate to me a bad fuel pump
>which does not want to pump when it gets hot? The car does not have
>the typical vapor lock symptoms since it dies while it is driving and
>I did not have it "warm soak" just before. The carbs are fairly new
>Grant rebuilds less than a year old. I also do not have a raw gas
>smell in the oil so I don't beleve that the pump is leaking into the
>oil. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you for any help.
>
>Anil
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