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03-31-2024, 10:10 AM | #1 |
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How to rig temp fuel delivery
I'm helping someone sell a Tudor that's been in storage for a few years. I want to show in the listing that the car will run. But I'm pretty sure the carb is gummed up, and there may be rust in the tank. I want to rig a temp fuel system just to confirm that it will run once the carb is fixed.
I have a working carb I can attach temporarily. I want to use a simple gravity-feed system with a jug and a flexible hose to feed the carb. The problem: I've never done this and I don't know how. Can someone explain to me how this is done? Like, what kind of connectors do I need? What kind of hose do I need? What kind of container do I need? The whole thing is a mystery. |
03-31-2024, 10:17 AM | #2 |
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Re: How to rig temp fuel delivery
I had to do a similar rig not to long ago. Rigged up a plastic gas mower fuel tank and ran a rubber hose with hose clamps onto the gas line to the carb, worked fine
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03-31-2024, 11:20 AM | #3 |
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Re: How to rig temp fuel delivery
OK, so you take the fuel line off the firewall-mounted filter and then you clamp the flexible hose to that on one end. Then you use a small tank or even a gas can on the other end. Seems reasonable. Thank you.
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03-31-2024, 01:19 PM | #4 |
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Re: How to rig temp fuel delivery
Before you do that, try to clean out the line from the tank and see if it will flow. You can dump about a gallon of gasoline with some tank cleaner in the tank, then shake the car to help clean it out. Toluene is a good cleaner.
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03-31-2024, 06:59 PM | #5 |
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Re: How to rig temp fuel delivery
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I have a steel fuel line that I cut off about four inches from the carburetor that I use to attach a flexible hose to and run that to my temporary tank.
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