fuel question(lack of)
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fuel question(lack of)
Okay replaced my fuel pump three weeks ago . I was just driving down the road and truck died . I got out and checked everything seemed fine tried cranking her over nothing so I had a buddy hold the Schrader valve to see if fuel was coming out . There was none so I took of the line coming from the pump no fuel. The question is there a sending unit in the tank or is that just a pick up line for the pump and my pump is just bad again
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Nothing at all . No air or fuel . Luckily I was close to home tools the whole line from mech pump to filter head off turned truck over no real . My question is how hard is an elec fuel pump to install and any good threads on hear to go by. Thanks again .
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Theres a few good threads. Depends on how you want to set it up. I went e-fuel, and since it needs to be pre-filtered i went with a dual filter setup down on the frame. Biggest pain is the fuel lines. I went new 3/8 line from the pump to the engine, and used the old 5/16 for the return.
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I have a dual filter head from a oil filter set up and under stand the concept of running it just am kind lost when it comes to the return line I'm gonna have to have a lil help from you guys if ya don't mind .
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You will only need a return line for a high pressure pump that requires a regulator, sorry forgot to mention that. If you went with a low pressure pump like a Carter, Facet, Mr.G or similar, you would not need a return and could just splice it into the fuel line rather easy.
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I read a few good posts and was in oreillys today and saw a pump made for diesel will get a pic tomorrow and post it to make sure its worth it . I think the price was forty dollars .
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If you are going e-pump do the facet lift pump. Put it up near the fuel filter. These work wonderful. As for you problem any hole on suction side if the pump will cause it to suck air not fuel. If the tent on pickup tube goes bad you can have this problem but usually only at 1/4 tank or lower. To test undo the suction line and attach a fuel line to the pump from a can of fuel and see what happens. If it pumps fuel then you have a fuel line problem from the tank to the
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I understand what your saying I'll give it a try tomorrow evening and post what I find and where do you get the pump your talking about . Another thing is when doing this I would like to be able to remove the filter head from the top of motor its just in the way and could run a better intake set up .
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The pump you seen at O'Reillys is probably the Mr.G green. Read some pretty mixed reviews on them as far as dependability. As for the Facet they seem to be dead reliable, but there have been complaints of them not moving enough fuel for maxxed out pumps.
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Now that you mentioned it intact it was a mister greens and since my IP is going slowly ( I have to do the water trick) was gonna give racin a shout and see about getting a 90 cc pump and cam and get type to rebuild my turbo . What is a good rrecommended pump. I saw people on here used a few different ones.
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Racin was runnin the Mr.G with his 180 pump and had no issues with it. Plenty of people are ga-ga for the Facet, but im not sold on em due to the low delivery. I went with a 7.3 superduty pump, but thats high pressure. Sadly there isnt really any low pressure high volume pumps, there are air dogs, but theyre still 15-18 psi which would have to be regulated, but you may be able to use a standard regulator, not the return type.
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If you want to go with the Facet, you can get one from Genlightening for a very reasonable price. I got one recently for my stock truck and it seems to be working well so far.
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The facet that genlighting is selling runs 9-11 psi and runs 33 gph with 10ft lift. I couldn't afford to run a truck that could consume more then 33 gallons of fuel an hour. Very satisfied with mine. The mister green I had wouldn't do the job.