On Thu, 15 May 1997 08:51:39 EDT barneymg@juno.com (Barney Gaylord)
writes:
>>Hmm, unless you have added a pressure regulator as well, you are
>lucky. SU's are rated for a 1.5-3.5 psi pump, anything more blows past
>the float needles and floods over. .....
>
>I must have heard about 100 people make this same statement, but I'm
>beginning to think it's an old wives tale, and I'm attempting to
>debunk it. I've had this pump in service a long time now. Started
>out with stock brass float valves, then went to rubber tipped float
>valves for a while, and have now been Grose Jets for five years. I
>run a fuel filter at the pump. I've never had an overflow problem.
>
>Now I'm prepared to be flamed, but has anyone actually experienced
>carburetor overflow caused by these pressures and not attributable to
>worn float valves or dirt?
>
>Barney Gaylord
>1958 MGA
Yes, Yes a hundred times yes!
Lawrie
British Sportscar Center
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