DrEagle
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| posted on 13/4/04 at 09:45 PM |
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Fuel Starvation – Pinto
Chaps, I need some help before I got to the nut house. I have just picked up another Eagle SS Its got a 1.6 Pinto with the VV Carb.
I am not getting a decent supply of fuel through and when I do its intermittent. Despite the engine not running for 9 years I changed all the ignition
and now it starts on the first flick of the key.
It soon dies though. I have narrowed down the problem to fuel starvation. When it dies if you look in the float chamber, its nigh on empty.
After spending a very smelly and annoying day trying to resolve the issue I fitted a new fuel pump ( I believe this was a waste of time but its not
expensive) I can get the engine running by taking a pipe from the fuel pump inlet into a can of petrol. Put I get a vacuum when connected to the fuel
tank.
I the though that perhaps the fuel lines had collapsed so I have replaced all the fuel lines to the tank but still no joy.
The fuel supply comes out the top of the tank on a pipe that comes out the sender fitting. I know nothing about senders but guess the problem is here
as I have eliminated everything else any clues?
Please?
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Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark with no budget,
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TL
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| posted on 13/4/04 at 10:24 PM |
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I can think of 4 possibilities:
1) Petrol cap breather blocked; If the cap can't breath, pump will try to implode tank. although I have only heard of this if the car has been
driven on a long enough run, not just sitting on the driveway. Have you tried running it with the filler cap off
2) check the mesh filter on the base of the fuel pick-up in the tank. after 9 years it could be blocked with scum.
3) Are there any in-line filters which could have got clogged?
4) I once had a similar problem, which turned out to be a little bit of rubber fuel hose broken off and lodging in the pick-up pipe. If you
haven't already, take out the pick-up/sender, and give it a good clean out.
[Edited on 13/4/04 by TL]
Cheers,
Terry
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DrEagle
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| posted on 13/4/04 at 10:34 PM |
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Have tried withough the cap - its only push fit anyway.
Have blown compressed air through pipe into tank and listen to ot bubble.
Can blow compressed air in throughbreather too.
Looks like i have to find a double jointed person to get the sender unit out.
thanks for a prompt reply.
Simon
Never be afraid to try something new!
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark with no budget,
where as a large group of professionals spent millions building the Titanic!
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TL
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| posted on 13/4/04 at 10:42 PM |
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When I had case 4), I too blew down the pipe, which sorted it for a while, but the slug was still in the pipe; All I was doing was shifting it
temporarily. I only found it when I took it all out. FWIW it was a diesel, so probably more sensitive to that type of thing.
Cheers,
Terry
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ray.h.
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| posted on 13/4/04 at 10:55 PM |
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Is it possible that one of the welds that holds the pick up pipes in the tank sender may have rotted through causing it to suck air.
Try putting a piece off clear pipe before the fuel pump and see if its full off bubbles when its running.
[Edited on 13/4/04 by ray.h.]
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rich201283
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| posted on 14/4/04 at 07:00 AM |
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I had a problem where the engine would run for a while then it would suddenly cut out, this turned out to be that the fuel line was too small, onece i
replaced the fuel line it ran fine
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DrEagle
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| posted on 14/4/04 at 07:49 PM |
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Resolved ! 
The pipe that drawers the fuel out the tank was full of a tar like substance!
Thanks chaps
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