Andy Wrote:
I'm trying to overhaul my fuel pump.
I cleaned it up and split the top and bottom halves. the valves are not
as described in any of my workshop manuals, they seem to be pressed in
place, with no screwed retainer plate, and are smaller than those in my
pump overhaul kit. (also don't match the illustrations in any of my
Alpine 1-4, Alpine 5, or Hunter manuals) It's a glass topped AC, with
no priming arm. stamped on it...
TYPE U
1L 009
Anybody know :is this is an earlier Rootes pump? a later Hunter /
Avenger pump? What year was the priming lever dropped?
And is the pump actuating lever specific to Rootes engines, or was an
identical pump & lever used on other contemporary engines ? Andy
( hey!...enough already! go buy a new pump! )
Andy, I had similar frustrations last week with the pump that HAS the
priming lever. My goal was to stop the oil that climbs the diaphragm
pullrod and drips out the weep hole. There was no oil seal or seal
retainer in the kit so I pryed out the retainer without completey
destroying it and fashioned a new seal from the old diaphragm. The
valves wouldn't pop out even with considerable force and the new ones
looked too large anyway. There was a gasket that didn't appear to fit
anything and a fiber seal that found no home. The only part I could use
was the diaphragm and once back together I still have the oil leak . But
the pump is now very clean , performs it's duty and I stuff a bit of
rag in the weep hole to absorb the oil.
Rob Nanzig
67SV
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