Re: [T3] Electric fuel pump w/manual: How to?

[Steven Ayres <comwest@att.net>]

<x-flowed>TobyE=> I have to spend several rounds of cranking the engine
=> over before I'll get fuel to the carbs. ... Suggestions?

WHat year is your fuel pump? After about '64 they have a built-in 
anti-siphon feature, before that there was a separate doohickey on the 
fuel line.

I'm a little surprised, though, to hear about this sort of trouble. I 
can park mine for a month and start up on the third turn of the crank 
after one squirt of the pedal. The carbs should not drain themselves -- 
if they do, you've got fuel in your oil, there's nowhere else for it to 
go. But I can't think what sort of fault would allow even that. So I'm 
led to the anti-siphon, but that only matters to the pump and the lines 
up to the carbs. Whatever's going on at the pump, you should still have 
plenty of fuel in the carbs to get started. Have you checked for fuel in 
the carbs after some downtime?

Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ
'66 343

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