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Re: [T3] Electric fuel primer pump (was: Parts, parts, parts!)


At 10:25 AM 4/12/05, Jim Adney wrote:
>Ideally, I think it would be nicest if the electric pump had zero impedance 
>internal check valves, too, so that the electric pump could just be mounted 
><deletia>
>pick up the pump and see if you can blow thru it easily in the forward 
>direction.

For whatever it's worth, my father has an electric primer pump installed in 
his '27 Chevy roadster.  It gets used once or twice a year after the car 
comes out of hibernation, after which the stock "pump" gets used.  Never
a problem with checkvalves in the pump.  6V Facet-style cube IIRC, but
I haven't crawled under that car in about 10 years.

I put quotes because that car doesn't have a fuel pump like we're used 
to -- it's an engine vacuum system that *sucks* fuel forward to the 
resevoir tank on the firewall, which then feeds the (updraft!) carburator. 

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