Re: Fuel Pump Back-up

[Frank O_ The Mountain]

In a message dated 5/11/00 6:17:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, amoyce@pol.net
writes:

>

Andy, I did it this way on the TA except that I used one of those $25 square
"electronic" pumps. The TA has two fuel lines feeding forward from the tank
which made it easy. You can avoid wiring by just connecting the spare to
your tail light. If the main pump fails, just switch on the side
lamps....since I did this, the SU hasn't missed a beat!! Scared too I guess.
Terry

[Dwyer]

Andrew

If your existing pump is in good condition and also transistorised, it's
not very likely that you will need a backup. In the thirty years that
we've been driving our J2 the pump has failed once, and that was really
my fault because I bent the spring contact instead of fixing the pump
properly!

If you're going to carry it at all, do the transistor mod, then setup
one pump to each carb and a balance pipe between the carbs.

Regards

Dave Dwyer