Fuel Pump Replacement
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Tuned
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Fuel Pump Replacement
Is it as easy as it looks? Anything I should look out for? The wife wants her new dishwasher and i figured before the hour drive to town i would fix the leaky fuel pump- probably double my mileage!
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hoses and bolts. make sure that you put some kind of grease on that new pump. because you do not want to mess you cam up. Just pop it and and you are good to go. Just an FYI for you i would replace the rubber fuel line also while you are their.
I put a new pump on my truck and about 4 days later the rubber fuel line cam apart and started leaking
but that is up to you
I put a new pump on my truck and about 4 days later the rubber fuel line cam apart and started leaking
but that is up to you
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Yep, it's as easy as it looks. The hard part is getting a wrench/socket and your hand in there. I think I used some extension with my rachet. But all you do is remove the fuel lines and two bolts holding it on. Then put everything back. The pump arm may be under pressure and you'll be able to tell when you loosen the retaining bolts. If it twists then it's being pushed on. You'll just have to push the new one back in.
Where is it leaking from? If it's just leaking from the filter canister, then maybe all you need to do is tighten it. I put mine on by hand. It should have a rubber seal on the inside of that canister just like an oil filter does. Maybe the seal slipped out of alignment.
Where is it leaking from? If it's just leaking from the filter canister, then maybe all you need to do is tighten it. I put mine on by hand. It should have a rubber seal on the inside of that canister just like an oil filter does. Maybe the seal slipped out of alignment.
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Tuned
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good, thats what i was hoping. its leaking out of the top part- where the two halves of the pump go together with the steel rolled over the top part. sometimes it pours, other times it just drips. odd?
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ramtoo is right. There will be a siphon going on in the rubber supply hose. You can either take an air compressor and blow the gas back into the tank to break the siphon or do like I did and clamp off the hose with a pair of vise grips. I'd blow the air back in there and replace all the rubber if it's old. It's cheap and real easy.
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> You can either take an air compressor and blow the gas back into the tank
Though the odds are very low, you can cause a static spark doing this and ignite vapors. What I usually do is insert a 5/16 bolt into the line and just clamp it off. Then cut a length of hose the correct size, insert a bolt, and clamp it. Then switch lines as fast as possible, very little fuel will spill.
On my truck, there is a section of fuel line from under the cab to the hard fuel line inside the frame. You might wish to replace that too.
Though the odds are very low, you can cause a static spark doing this and ignite vapors. What I usually do is insert a 5/16 bolt into the line and just clamp it off. Then cut a length of hose the correct size, insert a bolt, and clamp it. Then switch lines as fast as possible, very little fuel will spill.
On my truck, there is a section of fuel line from under the cab to the hard fuel line inside the frame. You might wish to replace that too.
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That little hose rebocardo is talking about is where I put my clear plastic fuel filter, I know its not a great place to have plastic but my rusty tank is starting to finally come clean replacing the filter about every 10 days now instead of every 3.
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