Re: Leak

["Everett Barnes" <everettb@thesamba.com>]

<x-flowed>> I have never had one come undone (never had one in the engine compartment to start with). I have just heard the classic stories of people who had these, claimed they were properly clamped, and whose engines went up in a bonfire when something came loose and the nice gasoline pump started pumping gasoline all over the engine. 
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The "bad idea" theory comes more from Beetles where people locate the filter 
after the fuel pump and between the carburetor.  It puts a weight on the 
carburetor intake tube, which is just a press-in fit.  These are already 
prone to pop out so it doesn't help to have a nice little weight on it to 
accelerate the process. 

It's a bad idea to put it after the pump anyway, why add more fittings on 
the pressure side? 

I haven't had any problems using no clamps on the intake side of the fuel 
pump but I usually do it anyway. 

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Everett Barnes 

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