In my experience this indicates an air leak. The fiber washers do compress
and the banjo bolts need to be tightened every so often.
bs
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Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@pacbell.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Carl Rubino" <ruvino@ripnet.com>
To: "healeylist" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:31 AM
Subject: fuel pump irregularity
> A few days ago after stopping for coffee my pump started running constantly as
> if the carbs were flooding (were not) or air was getting into the system-then
> when I turned the key off and on again everything was fine. Has happened
> several times since. Car runs fine even with excessive pumping although idling
> is crap. Since there is no flooding and this happens even on a cool day are
> the points sticking? is there a hole in the diaphram? or??????????
>
> Carl
> BN-4(L)
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