Re: [T3] Fuel Pump Mounting Cushions

[Douglas_Brashear@mail.amsinc.com]

Instead of stacking washers, why not cut a length of fuel hose about an
inch long and feed a longer nut through it...the bad thing about the
original mounts is that when the rubber breaks leaving you with a rusted
nut threaded onto a broken rubber-covered bolt (that has no hex head) the
only real way to get the thing off is to break the nut or bolt...if you use
a long 6mm x 1.0 bolt, with washers and the length of fuel hose as the
vibration dampener, you always have a hex head on both ends to work with
when the pump fails :-(  You'd tighten the nut down until the hose is
compressed a bit...maybe you'd want a NyLock nut on there to prevent it
from vibrating it off.  Serves the same purpose as the stack of rubber
washers.

Just an idea...

-Doug
69 auto FI square
73 FI fasty
98 NB
douglas_brashear@mail.amsinc.com




                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 



To:   type3@vwtype3.org
cc:    (bcc: Douglas Brashear/AMS/AMSINC)
Subject:  Re: [T3] Fuel Pump Mounting Cushions




I know what you mean, have been there.  The ones I've seen on wrecks
are either perished or non-existant, like the ones I didn't have when
I got my '71.  I went strolling through the plumbing department at the
local hardware store and came up with some flat rubber faucet or valve
washers that strung onto a long bolt pretty well.  The only problem is
that the bolts conduct the pump noise a little more than I'd like, but
it's comforting to know that your pump is working on a cold morning.
I pretty much had to rig up my own mounting until I could find some
original parts off a wreck, the whole bracket was missing, don't know
why.  I'm still using the stacks of washers, though.  I suppose some
enterprising fellow could use the original metal ends off the perished
original mounts and then cast up replacements out of RTV silicone of
suitable hardness using some PVC pipe for a mold or something, would
be lots more expensive than my stacks of washers.



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