On Fri, 9 Sep 1994, Michael G Hering wrote:
> while my brother and I were looking under the bonnet, he pointed at the
> fuel pump and said "what's that." What it was, was the axle upon which
> the fuel pump actuating lever rides on, and it was sticking out of the
> pump housing almost 3/4 of an inch. Thank goodness I had read the recent
> [stuff deleted]
> axle. It has shown no signs of coming out again. My question is how to
> ensure that this does not occur again (shor t of finding an original fuel
Peen the pump body over the ends of the shaft.
> Last question for now: On this same trip my fuel guage and temp
> guage died at once. Any other obvious failure points I should check
> other than the fuses?
Your voltage stabilizer, which supplies a constant 10V to those two gauges,
has probably died.
Sorry for the terse answer, but my keyboard is dying.
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Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 NEMGTR #2271
Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154LO (daily transportation)
feold@umd5.umd.edu
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