Fuel pump saga...

[Paul Workman]

My pressure issue was the pumps, after all - got plenty of push now - WOT pressure stays just above 50 all the way to redline. Apparently, someone had been in there before...I found traces of red lint on the old strainers, followed by finding a red shop towel drifting around on the bottom of the tank! Somehow, I don't think that was suppose to be there...

Had to go back in and replace the stock plastic hose clamps with some worm-gear clamps as it wouldn't hold pressure. That helped a lot, but where the old pumps held pressure, since the change to new pumps, it won't hold. One of the packages holding one of the fuel pumps had been opened before I bought it, but since it was the last pair they had, I took it. That might have been a mistake. I'm wondering if I can use air pressure to back pressure the pumps and go hunting for the leak that way. Gonna find out later today, I recon! (I didn't intend on getting good at pulling the pumps. Got it down to under 20 minutes from removing the door to installing it again...sheesh!)

P.