[TR] Another fuel pump question

[Alex & Janet Thomson]

The day before we took our GT6 to the historic races at Lime Rock Park last fall, I couldn’t get the car started. The old mechanical fuel pump was bad and I already had promised the parade lap at lunchtime to one of my student employees. Answer – install an electric Facet pump. There’s not a lot of room on a GT6 and those pumps work best if they are mounted low on the car, preferably below the tank. I mounted it on the side of the left front frame section. For a “Sunday Night Special” modification, it worked great – we all enjoyed the parade laps at Lime Rock. Those pumps do make a “ticking” sound but you would never hear it when you are driving, in my opinion. A stock, mechanical pump is still available from one of the big two for about $40 but I needed to get this car running with only a 5 hour window to do the work. The other nice thing is that after a long storage time, the engine fires right up – no need to prime the carbs with excessive cranking as there was with the old pump. The other challenge was finding a path to run a switched 12V source to the pump and then fishing the wire around that incredibly tight dashboard/cowl area. I know that I should install an inertia safety switch but the car will be going up for sale sometime as I can no longer easily enter it or extract myself from it. If somebody wants the info, I can probably dig up the NAPA number for the pump that I used.

 

Alex Thomson

 

73 TR6

71 GT6

8 John Deere

1 Case

1 Farmall

 

From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bryan Loy
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2022 4:19 PM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] Another fuel pump question

 

Hello the list.  I had some work done on my TR6, and the mechanic that rebuilt my carbs said I had a weak fuel pump.   Ok, I can handle that, but in y'alls opinion, is an electric pump better than the old mechanical pump?  Pros and cons, please?  Thanks! 


 

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Bryan C. Loy

Paradise Music

Franklin, N.C. 

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