Following up on a 4 year old email from me.
As you see below, I had an Autopulse 2100 fuel pump in my car when I got
it. I bought the $6.50 rebuild kit and it worked fine. Today I got
inspired to play with the Healey a bit and found that I wasn't getting gas
to the carbs. Turns out that the replacement diaphragm has also turned to
black goo. It looks like modern gas dissolves them, in a little over 4
years. If you have one of these, you should swap it out.
Now I need to either get the NAPA pump or find an original (anyone have a
used they want to get rid of)
Patton
On Sun, Jan 6, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Patton Dickson <57healey@gmail.com> wrote:
> My BN4 came to me with an autopulse series 2100 Fuel pump on it to replace
> the original SU. Today, the pump wasn't pulling gas, and I opened it up
> and found the diaphragm had turned to black goo.
>
> It is an old pump (probably 40 years old) and seems well built and looks
> like it was meant to be on the car. I found a place that sells rebuild
> kits for it cheap ( 6.50 here
> http://www.autoperformanceengineering.com/html/bel_pump.html). The low
> pressure version (which I have to assume I have) is 2.5-4 psi and new ones
> are only $60. I there any reason not to rebuild other than going back to
> original. Since it was on the car when I got it, I think i would like to
> keep it unless there is something I am not thinking about.
>
> Thanks
> Patton
>
> --
> Patton Dickson - http://Austin-Healeys.com - Plano, TX
> 1957 Austin-Healey 100-Six "Built to run 'til the road wears out."
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Patton Dickson - Plano, TX
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