[Healeys] Fuel pump flustered

[Bob Spidell]

Sounds like you have an air leak on the intake side of the pump.   We 
had a similar problem on our BN2; although the clicking was more 
erratic--sometimes normal, sometimes clicking like mad. We checked 
everything; finally my dad cut the outlet tube out of the used tank we'd 
installed and found a small hole in the pickup tube by where the tube 
was soldered to the top of the tank.  Dad deduced that the acid used in 
the flux used to solder the tube to the tank ate the hole in the tube.

Try running an inlet tube into a bucket of gas--obvious precautions 
required--if that helps you've found the culprit; if not, the leak is 
elsewhere on the intake side.

Bob


On 9/28/2016 1:15 PM, llennep at verizon.net wrote:
> Listers,
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> This one has really got me stumped.  A couple weeks ago went on a 40 or so mile ride.  Car ran great.  No probs.  At one point I was stopped and I could hear the fuel pump clicking away, 3-4 clicks per second.  This was true whether at idle or higher rpm.  I knew that normally at idle there was an occasional click.
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> Once back home I restarted the car and same thing.  Then over several days I attempted to fix the prob.  A different pump gave the same results.  I replaced the filter and still same thing.  Oh BTW there was no fuel underneath as is the case when a float needle is stuck and fuel comes out the overflow.  No fuel shows up anywhere.
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> Why does the pump continue to click so fast?????  Why does it NOT slow to an occasional click?????  What is the fix????  I am flustered.
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> Keith
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