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Re: Fuel Pump pressure

To: dhl@chelseamsl.com
Subject: Re: Fuel Pump pressure
From: Douglas Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:07:21 -0400
But if the spring is broken,. the remaining part might not even be long enough 
to reach the diaphragm.

Doug

At 07:14 PM 10/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>You have it all right -- as far as it goes.  But it is the spring
>which supplies the force to push the fuel to the carburettor.  And if
>the spring is broken, the remaining part presses harder than the
>longer unbroken spring which the factory provided.
>
>So the fuel has no place to go unless the [excessive] spring pressure
>overcomes the needle valve.
>
>Donald.




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