{"id":676,"date":"2008-07-15T09:53:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.wordpress.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2008-07-15T09:53:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T16:53:08","slug":"sprint-veloce-fuel-pump-final-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2008\/07\/15\/sprint-veloce-fuel-pump-final-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprint Veloce Fuel pump almost final fix"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have this approach I’ve noticed when faced with a job I don’t necessarily want\u00a0to do on one of my cars, it’s called procrastination, you might have heard of it.\u00a0 As necessity is the mother of invention it is\u00a0just as strongly the enemy of procrastination and\u00a0I\u00a0it took me having two\u00a0unavoidable reasons and a little good luck to effect an almost\u00a0final fix for this fuel pump issue<\/a>.\u00a0 The first good reason was the need to give Kip back his SU fuel pump that was given temporary duties on the SV (I was going to see him\u00a0on Sunday at a shop warming party), the second is the\u00a0requested attendance of this car at Pixar’s Motorama this Friday\u00a0afternoon.\u00a0 The little bit of good luck was a friend having a new Facet fuel pump kit bought specifically for a weber equipped Giulietta\u00a0Spider that was no longer in his life.\u00a0 With no good rationalization left to enable procrastinate, I went to my shop yesterday determined to mount, plumb and wire the new fuel pump.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nice new Facet fuel pump hanging out with 50 years of scummy crud on the underside of the Sprint Veloce.\u00a0 Note shock isolation mounts, like little motor mounts, and grounding wire.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Facet fuel pump kit is available from the usual Alfa parts suppliers who shall remain nameless until they at least give me a discount in exchange for a deserved favorable mention or want to place an ad on my site.\u00a0 The kit includes the pump, a made-in-the-USA Facet pump that physically looks like the original Bendix pump that Alfa Giulietta Veloce’s used, two 90-degree brass fittings and a pair of rubber mounts.\u00a0 Not included but recommended is a shut-off pressure switch that should be plumbed into the\u00a0oil\u00a0pressure\u00a0gauge feed line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The thinking behind the shut-off\u00a0switch is that if you roll your car you don’t want the fuel\u00a0pump to continue pumping raw gas all over the place, especially if the car is on fire.\u00a0 If the car is upside down with the engine running, or if the engine dies there is no oil pressure and the shut-off\u00a0switch goes to ‘off’\u00a0and the pump loses power and stops pumping fuel.\u00a0My red Sprint has an oil-pressure based\u00a0shut-off switch and it has never given any problems and luckily I’ve never had to depend on it.<\/p>\n

First step was preparing the pump.\u00a0 I installed the two elbow fitting with some liquid teflon tape stuff that is probably officially called ‘pipe thread sealant’ by a company that makes a lot of high quality automotive goo’s that come in small tubes.\u00a0 I made sure to try and point the fitting openings toward the destination of the lines that were going to be hooked up to them.\u00a0 Next I crimped on a female bullet connector with a clear plastic insulating sheath that came in a kit I bought on eBay to use when wiring up a 1963 Honda CB77 Superhawk I had a few years back.\u00a0 I made up a short wire with an eyelet connector at either end to use as a ground strap.\u00a0 The last step was installing the two rubber mounts and the ground to the pump body.\u00a0 I used a pair of stainless nuts and split lock washers for this.<\/p>\n

Second step was preparing the car to receive the pump.\u00a0 I disconnected the battery, jacked it up, put two jack stands under it so I wouldn’t get crushed if something failed, and removed the rear wheel.\u00a0I crimped a male bullet connector on to the wire from the fuse box,\u00a0wire-brushed the metal on the bracket where the ground was going to be\u00a0hooked up and bolted the pump into place.\u00a0\u00a0I had to get under the car to\u00a0wrestle the fuel lines onto the fittings and got some gear oil in my hair-yuck!\u00a0 While under there I secured the fuel lines, wires and some other stuff that was hanging down as well as I could, but noted a future effort is needed to make it all happy.<\/p>\n

The installation took about an hour from changing into my grubby clothes to torquing the lug-nuts and test firing the car.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Elbow fitting can be seen in this picture pointing back to the gas tank.\u00a0 Lower fitting is fuel in, upper fitting is fuel out.\u00a0 I know, what the heck is the big black wire doing going through the spring?\u00a0 A day spent under there securing all the wires and lines to the body is my next task on this car to procrastinate about doing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here’s the stock mount on the body that is intended for the pump.\u00a0 I’m not sure if standard Sprint’s have this bracket.\u00a0 Since the pump is rubber mounted I had to run a ground from the pump bracket to the body bracket to complete the circuit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next installment will chronicle the installation of the fuel pump power shut-off switch.\u00a0 Stay tuned!\u00a0 Future efforts against procrastination will include mounting new seats in the red Sprint, cleaning up the engine compartment on the red Sprint and cleaning up the rear brake on the Triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have this approach I’ve noticed when faced with a job I don’t necessarily want\u00a0to do on one of my cars, it’s called procrastination, you might have heard of it.\u00a0 As necessity is the mother of invention it is\u00a0just as strongly the enemy of procrastination and\u00a0I\u00a0it took me having two\u00a0unavoidable reasons and a little good … <\/p>\n

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