> I know you can still buy 'rebuild kits' for the English-made AC branded
> primer-levered fuel pumps for your TRs but can AC rebuild kits (especially
>the
> diaphram) be used to rebuild the almost identical looking Italian-made BCD
>fuel
> pumps? If they didn't have different logos you couldn't tell the difference
>from
> the outside.
There is a single company in Turkey that makes all the rebuild kits for
the AC style mechanical pumps in the world. They are built specifically
to be Genuine Land Rover replacement parts for the AC fuel pump used on
the four cylinder petrol Land Rovers. The same rebuild kit minus the
land rover box is sold to everyone else. The kit services all the
various flavours of the standard body AC mechanical fuel pump plus the
look alike aftermarket replacement for the NLA Land Rover pump. My guess
it if the company designed the pump to be a look alike replacement and
it has a ring of bolts that it will be rebuildable with the standard
rebuild kit. You could find out in less than an hour by trying to
rebuild one.
> The only real difference I can find is the AC check-valves are slightly
> different in design and held in by a screwed clip while the BCD valves are
>'tagged'
> into housing.
Early style AC pumps had the valves held into place with plate attached
with a screw. However later the GENUINE AC fuel pump used the crimp
mounting method. What you are describing is the difference between the
early AC pump and later production runs of the same pump.
If you were to look closely at diaphragm Illustrated the factory manual
and compare it to the actual diaphragm you will see the the plates at
the centre are reversed. The folks in Turkey got it backwards. The
Land Rover folks made one attempt to get them to change the tooling so
it assembles the part correctly but the Turkish company said it would
cost too much, and besides it works OK assembled that way.
Bottom line is the kit is available from a single source world wide and
that it works inspite of the diaphragm being assembled backwards.
TeriAnn
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