Fuel Pump Help!
IHC in the early to mid-fifties.
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My tank also had a shut-off valve, I suppose for tank removal, in the fuel line at the tank. If yours has one, make sure the valve is open.
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It should be understood, the fuel pump does not "suck." The pump lowers the pressure in the fuel line by pumping the fuel toward the carburetor and this leaves a lower pressure behind the pump. It is the atmospheric pressure that pushed the fuel along to the pump.
If the fuel pick-up tube in the tank is compromised by rust there could be a corrosion hole and it is likely the rust has partially blocked the inside of the tube.
Replacing the fuel lines from the tank to the pump and beyond to the carburetor should be one of the first "to-do" important repairs.
Something else to check for is, floating debris in the fuel tank. In times past, it was very common to poke a shop rag into the fuel tank filler tube when the gas cap was misplaced. It was common for the rag to fall into the fuel tank. Every now and then, the rag would obstruct the fuel pick-up tube and the engine would stall or become intermittent.
Do not entertain the possibility of changing to an electric fuel pump until you replace all of the fuel line. Can you say FIRE
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Measure the outside diameter of the original fuel line so you will know what to ask for.
Unless you have spent about $800, as I have, on specialty tubing tools to form stainless steel and mild steel line/tube buy the steel line.
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EmanM18 wrote:Yes, I believe there is a shut off valve. Which way would be open, unscrewing it or screwing it in all the way? Would the screen be over where the fuel line enters the fuel tank?
Turning the valve counterclockwise opens it.
The tube that goes into the tank has to come out to find the screen...if it's still there.
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