Jerome-
My car still has the remains of the rubber floors. I imagine they were more
flexible when new, and certainly more attractive. The rubber in my car is
in front and back and sits on top of what looks like it used to be black
carpet. I can only imagine that most restorers wouldn't want to duplicate
it because it's molded to the shape of the floor pan in places and would be
hard/expensive to reproduce. Besides, it just looks hideous, IMO.
James
'63 SII 9119860
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John C. Slade wrote:
> My two bits worth.
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> Being in the middle of an engine rebuild job with three Alpine engines in pieces, I have some interesting observations. One of the cams has a fuel pump eccentric with heavy scoring, double grooves which move forward and back on the cam as they go around it. The second cam has the same phenomenon but relatively mild, while the third has no surface damage at all.
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> Fuel pumps apparently come with two different versions of the activating lever. One has a solid bronze coloured lever, the other (7950175 stamped on the arm) has a lever of the same size and shape, but laminated from three pieces of steel held together at the cam end by a substantial rivet directly above the cam contact point. The cams with the scoring damage both had the latter type of fuel pump arms, the cam with no damage had the first type.
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> If a cam is sent for reconditioning, mild scoring can be ground out, but more serious scoring will probably need to be welded and ground. The fuel pump appears to have some tolerance regarding the exact position of contact, and with mild cam grinding will still contact the cam in a functioning position.
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> John S.
Fellow Piners:Another note on pumps, one time now that i remember , a pump on an old chrylser my bro. had was worn terribly bad. a replacement was not available . an old guy in a shop took the pump apart and welded on a thin strip of banding strap onto the pumper, this worked untill my bro. ran it into a irrgation canal three years later.
just a note .
chuck
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