| [ Total Views: 830 | Total Replies: 11 | Thread Id: 80600 ] |
|
|
 Spook
Custom Title Time!
Driving the 64 wheeler
Posts: 1168
Threads: 83
Registered: August 26th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Central Coast
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: ALWAYS DARK
|
 posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 05:15 AM |
|
|
Lucky or unlucky. Take your pick.
Driving home last week in the 70 beetle., along the old Pacific highway.
55 mph, & the smell of petrol fills the car.
Pull off the road, shut it down, head for the back.
There is petol running out from the engine lid. Open the lid & the brass pipe on the fuel pump has come away from the pump itself. This is the one
from the pump to the carby.
So my engine bay is covered in fuel. BUT the car is not on fire, even though this has been pumping straight on to the distributor.
Undone the clamp, removed said pipe from the hose, tapped it back in & put the fuel line back on. Nursed it home, pulling over when ever I thought
I smelt fuel again.
I change hoses & clamps religeously every 2 years. The fuel pump falling apart is one of those things I guess.
Could have been a lot more dire.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
|
|
|
1500S
Custom Title Time!
Posts: 1418
Threads: 73
Registered: March 28th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Nth Richmond, N.S.W
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 06:39 AM |
|
|
Use tie wire around all the pipes on pump. Bring wire from around the front of the clamps and tie around body of pump. Prevents them popping out.
Same for carbs or use screwed in pipes which can't come loose.
DH
|
|
|
 Bizarre
Super Moderator
The artist formerly known as blue74l
Posts: 12757
Threads: 732
Registered: August 25th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Abbotsford, Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 07:18 AM |
|
|
WOW..................... reckon i would put that in the "lucky" category
Futue te ipsum!!!
|
|
|
MickH
A.k.a.: Michael Hutchinson
Bishop of Volkswagenism
Hairy Gutted Sloth
Posts: 3389
Threads: 29
Registered: September 6th, 2003
Member Is Offline
Location: TownsvilleTropical North QLD
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: Grow a brain...walls don't hit back...
|
| posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 07:43 AM |
|
|
Buy a lotto ticket......
tssnq.com.au
|
|
|
71dub
Officially Full-On Dubber
Posts: 361
Threads: 46
Registered: September 29th, 2008
Member Is Offline
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue
Mood: happy
|
| posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 08:34 AM |
|
|
very lucky
|
|
|
matberry
Super Moderator
Go hard or go home
Posts: 8114
Threads: 134
Registered: March 7th, 2006
Member Is Offline
Location: Cooroy Qld
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue
Mood: enjoying waving at all my Kombi buddies from my T3
|
| posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 09:24 AM |
|
|
Had the same happen to me many years ago and just last week the same happened to a customer's type 3 KG. But the type three had loose foil on the
engine lid that also arced on the coil wiring.......boom. Lucky they stopped immediately at some roadworks and a fire extinguisher saved the day. ALL
GOOD
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
OFF-ROAD,CIRCUIT,DRAG,STREET,ENDURANCE
 |
|
|
DirkHedde
Slammed & Awesome Dubber
Posts: 91
Threads: 8
Registered: October 22nd, 2008
Member Is Offline
Location: northern nsw
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue
Mood: thinking about it
|
| posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 01:12 PM |
|
|
those new fuel pumps are the way to go i reckon. one piece top section so theres nothing to fall out. your story definately is in the lucky category
|
|
|
Joel
Scirocco Rare
Now containing 100% E-Wang
Posts: 9368
Threads: 211
Registered: February 14th, 2006
Member Is Offline
Location: Northern Rivers NSW
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Purple
Mood: Tact Level 0.00
|
| posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 01:29 PM |
|
|
the exact same thing happened in my mates 68 bug when we were heading down to valla back in 95 or 97 on that quiet stretch between grafton and coffs
right where that seedy old mechanic with the 100s of green mack tow trucks are (very wolf creek-ish)
i was in the back and we all started smelling fuel so pulled over and got out and the decklid was soaked in fuel
how it didnt go up was anyones guess but we just tapped the fitting back into the pump and off it went
same thing happened again about 12 months later. new fuel pump this time
also the brass fitting in the carb that the hose connects to has been known to do the same thing
|
|
|
1500S
Custom Title Time!
Posts: 1418
Threads: 73
Registered: March 28th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Nth Richmond, N.S.W
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 02:49 PM |
|
|
| Quote: | Originally
posted by Joel
the exact same thing happened in my mates 68 bug when we were heading down to valla back in 95 or 97 on that quiet stretch between grafton and coffs
right where that seedy old mechanic with the 100s of green mack tow trucks are (very wolf creek-ish)
i was in the back and we all started smelling fuel so pulled over and got out and the decklid was soaked in fuel
how it didnt go up was anyones guess but we just tapped the fitting back into the pump and off it went
same thing happened again about 12 months later. new fuel pump this time
also the brass fitting in the carb that the hose connects to has been known to do the same thing
|
That's why we need these screwed in pipes!
DH
| Error |
| Sorry, you must be a registered user in order to download attachments. |
|
|
|
|
SuperOwen
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 868
Threads: 67
Registered: January 18th, 2009
Member Is Offline
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 04:06 PM |
|
|
I had a fuel line on one of my carbs work its way off on the drive from goulburn to wollongong, the car was still running fine as the fuel line was
just butted up against the brass line on the carb, just spraying fuel all over the passenger side corner of the engine bay. I thought i could smell a
bit of fuel but i was stuck behind a petrol tanker so I assumed it was a bit fumey! only realised id been leaking fuel on the freeway for the last 2
hours when my dad noticed when i pulled into the driveway the back wheel was covered in some oily gunk. The fuel had been running down the tarboard,
all over the exhaust into the wheel somehow.
|
|
|
71-BEETLE-SEDAN
Custom Title Time!
AKA Josh
Posts: 1058
Threads: 108
Registered: March 25th, 2009
Member Is Offline
Location: Mittagong NSW
Theme: UltimaBB Pro White
|
| posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 05:36 PM |
|
|
This may be thead hijacking but not to big of a fan of joels new signiture line.
|
|
|
Spook
Custom Title Time!
Driving the 64 wheeler
Posts: 1168
Threads: 83
Registered: August 26th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Central Coast
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: ALWAYS DARK
|
| posted on December 4th, 2009 at 11:26 AM |
|
|
Changed the pump today. the joy of having 3 cars is there is no rush to do anything.
Found the inlet pipe is screw in. Obviously I'm not the 1st one to have a problem with this pump.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
|
|
|
