<VV> 1967 Corvair Monza fuel pump + a loose alternator ground "sparking" !@!#$@#@#!@

[Charles Lee]

< a pump dribbling fuel into the engine compartment is inherently more 
dangerous >

Correct-o-mundo ! Especially since I also found a loose ground on the 
alternator "sparking" around-the-corner from the leaking fuel pump !!!! 
Fortunately the twain did NOT meet !!!!!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jimster1" <jimster1 at earthlink.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> 1967 Corvair Monza fuel pump


> Amen, all of this yack about leaking fuel pumps kind of validates the
> electric fuel pump.  I'd say that a pump dribbling fuel into the engine
> compartment is inherently more dangerous than ANY perceived problem 
> stemming
> from a crash, to say nothing about filling your crankcase with gas and
> diluting to oil to the point of engine failure.  But if the Luddites wish 
> to
> continue wax romantic about the virtues of mechanical pumps, I guess there
> is nothing the enlightened can do about it.
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of shortle
> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:45 AM
> To: jvhroberts at aol.com; tony.underwood at cox.net; virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> 1967 Corvair Monza fuel pump
>
> And electric fuel pumps will NOT fill your crankcase with gasoline.
> Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado
> Experienced in the early '80s with a very full crankcase of oil + gas
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: jvhroberts at aol.com
>>Sent: Jul 24, 2010 12:02 PM
>>To: tony.underwood at cox.net, virtualvairs at corvair.org
>>Subject: Re: <VV> 1967 Corvair Monza fuel pump
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>> Late fuel pumps are better than early fuel pumps!!
>>
>>John Roberts
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>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>
>>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>>Sent: Sat, Jul 24, 2010 10:18 am
>>Subject: Re: <VV> 1967 Corvair Monza fuel pump
>>
>>
>>At 08:39 PM 7/23/2010, Charles Lee wrote:
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>>>I know this is the right pump, since it was running fine, before
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>>>sitting a while.
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>>>
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>>>Now, runs OK and it leaks a bit but the seals and surfaces look fine
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>>>- not cracked, pinched or anything.
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>>>
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>>>It would seem that the seals could be replaced for less than $70 to
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>>>buy everything else as a package
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>>I bought a couple of fuel pump rebuild kits about 20 years ago at a
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>>show, paid 13 bucks each for them iirc.   Last time I ever saw a
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>>rebuild kit for a 'Vair pump.
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>>Since then I've overhauled several myself by making gaskets and
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>>reworking the valve block, either replacing bad valves, depending on
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>>the pump or replacing the whole block itself.    I rescued several
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>>valve blocks from bogus pumps I ran across... gaskets and diaphragms
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>>were of course useless but the valve blocks were fine.
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>>I have another bogus pump behind me as I speak that's likely gonna
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>>get overhauled with the correct stuff as well.   It's never been used
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>>and its gaskets are cracking just from sitting on the shelf.
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>>
>>tony..
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