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kenshi
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Posted: 11-June-2004 at 2:00PM |
My Torino ran fairly well last week, and now it's not getting any fuel
after installing new transmission lines. I pulled the fuel line off the
carburetor and it's not getting any at that point. I then pulled the
line off of the pump. It doesn't pour out of there either. I attribute
that to the car being on a slight grade. Reading a previous thread
makes me wonder if the fuel level sender filter is clogging it up
though. Also, I put my finger over the input of the pump while it was
being cranked. There was just a slight vacuum on it, nowhere near what
I'd expect from, say, a vacuum line. How hard is a mechanical fuel pump
supposed to suck? Thanks.
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Torinogts73c
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Sounds like a bad fuel pump. Most of the time the screen on the sender will act up under load, the car will start but not run well at all. Do you know if any of these two items has been changed in the past?Shop manual says fuel psi should be 5-7lbs psi @ 500 rpm.
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kenshi
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I doubt they've been changed any time recent, if at all. The previous
owner before me only drove it about a month, and the one before that
was an old man that never drove more than 40. Plus the car did sit for
about a year before I got it. I'll probably pick up another fuel pump
next chance I get.
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Torinogts73c
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Yes, that would be a good idea! That pump is dried up
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kenshi
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Well I got the fuel pump and it did a whole lot of nothing. Back to the
drawing board. The strange thing is that when I crank on it, I can
smell gas, but I can't find any anywhere. I can't believe it cranked
once and ran fine and now it just stopped. Any ideas?
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Torinogts73c
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Sounds like you are going to have to pull the sending unit to see if the filter is plugged. When I pulled mine it was disgusting all plugged up!
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Okay. That's probably what it is. After having it set for a year with no gas in it, I'm sure there's plenty of rust that clogged the filter. I'll know in a few days.
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Bam! I didn't replace the strainer, but I did take it out and blow
through it. I also blew through the fuel lines. Somehow paper had
gotten in there. It took a lot of playing with it, but finally it
squirted fuel across the engine compartment. For the first time, I
drove her (albeit only about 40 feet). Once I repair my radiator, I can
drive her for long distances, and once I find some shift linkage bolts,
she'll go both directions. [smiles]
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Glad to see you are making progress Hope it gets better!
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