<VV> Fuel pump advice

[deltainc]

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From: <akacube at aol.com>
Subject: <VV> Fuel pump advice


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> Hello all corvairians!
>         I would like your opinions on a mechanical fuel pump vs an 
> electric one.> Thanks to all of my fellow corvair enthusiasts
> Abe
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Anecdotally ::   my original 66 140 vair was traded off after 55000 miles, 
no troubles with mechanical  pump.

I loved that car, so got back into corvair fever about 1986 ...   I wound up 
with about 12 fuel pumps, some of which worked occasionally; I kept all of 
them and a tool box in the trunk (g)... the new ones failed, the old 
junkyard jewels got me all over the midwest in my 69 daily vair.

Then ...  the good ones became available again, last bot one about 2002 for 
a lucky spare not needed, still working.Buy from a Corvair Vendor, not your 
local chinese parts merchant.

OTOH, if you like gadgets, the electric pump will help you get started 
better, big reason is that our new fuels tend to vaporize out of the fuel 
bowls after a few hours of non-running, and the electric pump can fill them 
back up faster than an unprimed mechanical pump... in my opinion.

Vair fuel pumps repeatalo again, good for our souls. ken campbell, 
deltawerkes