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1. RE: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: "Bill Miller $LBC's$" <lbcs@earthlink.net>; Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 23:13:26 -0500; Silly question number 2. What is that little blue thing that looks like a capacitor beside the little back box that houses the fuel pump, and why does my fuel pump start working again when I smack it; /html/mgs/2005-10/msg00005.html (7,560 bytes)
2. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: "Steve Gorr" <sgorr2@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 23:35:59 -0500; The blue thing keeps static off your radio from the points operating in the pump. When the points stick, your smacking it frees them and the pump operates again. -- Original Message -- From: "Bill Mi; /html/mgs/2005-10/msg00006.html (7,669 bytes)
3. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: Paul Root <ptroot@iaces.com>; Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:02:19 -0500; It's a capacitor. Used for deadening noise for the radio. Smacking the fuel pump, loosens the points and gets them working again. You'll want to clean or replace the points.; /html/mgs/2005-10/msg00008.html (7,860 bytes)
4. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: Hans Duinhoven <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>; Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:57:18 +0200; The blue thing is truly an electrolitic capacitor. It limits the arcing on the contact points and by this lengthens the lifetime of the contacts. Failure is either short circuit - pump will fail and; /html/mgs/2005-10/msg00012.html (8,617 bytes)
5. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>; Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 14:10:43 -0500; Most electric fuel pumps will also restart if you switch the ignition off and on again a few times. Easier than crawling under the car in the wet. They normally stick because the coil moves the point; /html/mgs/2005-10/msg00020.html (7,974 bytes)
6. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: Eric Erickson <eric@erickson.on.net>; Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:21:23 +0930; I thought that was why they mounted the fuel pump as easily accessible from outside the car (I have bashed a few back into life, myself, before taking the hint and replacing them) - rather than like; /html/mgs/2005-10/msg00028.html (7,899 bytes)
7. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: "oliver" <sumton@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:36:47 -0500; what if your car ignition was left on all night? isn't that more likely the pump has quite for good? -- Original Message -- From: "Rocky Frisco" <rock@rocky-frisco.com> To: <mgs@autox.team.net> Sent:; /html/mgs/2005-10/msg00030.html (8,016 bytes)
8. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: Todd Mullins <muses@cableone.net>; Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 21:01:39 -0500; Actually, for those of us with LHD Bs, the fuel pump is within arm's reach of the driver's seat. Sure, it's on the other side of some sheet metal, but a well-placed smack or two with a suitably blun; /html/mgs/2005-10/msg00034.html (8,688 bytes)
9. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:54:12 +0100; No, definitely noise suppression as previously indicated. Arc suppression components are built in to the pump, not all cars had these blue capacitors, which were also fitted to the coil and voltage r; /html/mgs/2005-10/msg00038.html (7,807 bytes)
10. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:21:23 -0700; No. Once it pressurizes the line, it quits pumping. So leaving the ignition on doesn't tell you anything about the pump. It just kills your battery. <g> -- Max Heim '66 MGB GHN3L76149 If you're near; /html/mgs/2005-10/msg00045.html (7,470 bytes)
11. Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: DMatt21502@aol.com; Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:51:39 EDT; I have a 1977 MGB and installed a new fuel pump. At least it was new five years ago but has been sitting on the shelf waiting for me to finish the car! The car will run fine for about 10 minutes and; /html/mgs/2005-09/msg00373.html (7,139 bytes)
12. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:56:59 +0100; Welcome to the world of modern electronics. They either work or they don't, and when they don't they usually fail totally and without warning. Bought my V8 with a solid-state pump, it was OK for a bi; /html/mgs/2005-09/msg00375.html (8,296 bytes)
13. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:57:47 -0700 (PDT); Not sure HOW you would mess with it! I have read that with some of these pumps you need to actually reduce the pressure they use to pump the gas, as the carbs need lower pressure than they provide. P; /html/mgs/2005-09/msg00376.html (7,868 bytes)
14. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>; Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:15:00 -0700; I had a Moprod fuel pump which sat for at least 8 years patiently waiting to be installed. When I got my MGB GT V8 on the road it had the problem you described. However, I knew I had under-bonnet hea; /html/mgs/2005-09/msg00377.html (8,205 bytes)
15. RE: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: "Bill Miller $LBC's$" <lbcs@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:29:53 -0500; Where is the fuel pump located in a '77 ?; /html/mgs/2005-09/msg00383.html (6,660 bytes)
16. Re: Fuel Pump Problem (score: 1): Author: Paul Root <ptroot@iaces.com>; Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:51:34 -0500; All stock fuel pumps are just ahead of the rear right tire. It sticks into the trunk. The little black box in the trunk is the end.; /html/mgs/2005-09/msg00384.html (6,836 bytes)
17. Fuel pump problem (score: 1): Author: Nory@webtv.net (Nory); Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:59:07 -0500; Hi gang, Due to the fact that I'm too lazy to look it up in the manual, and the list usually makes more sense, I'll run this one by you guys and gals. After winter storage, the '74 won't start (norma; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg01838.html (7,613 bytes)
18. Re: Fuel pump problem (score: 1): Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>; Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:19:50 -0500 (EST); Nory, pull the wire off the pump and test it for power. If you find that the wire has power to it,,hook it back up and then hook up a jumper wire from the pump to a good ground. If you have power and; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg01857.html (8,476 bytes)

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