[rollei_list] Re: Allen Zak and SU fuel pumps
- From: Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:05:25 -0700
Marc,
The Skinner Union (SU) pumps in all my British sports cars were replaced
with
Bendix fuel pumps (MG-TD Mark II, Jaguar XK 120 MCR, and AC-Bristol.)
My Cad-Allard had the GM fuel pump.
Jerry
Marc James Small wrote:
At 07:54 AM 10/29/2009, Allen Zak wrote:
>Normally I try to avoid religious arguments, but my own experience with
>Lucas electricals tended to sour me on the marque. My brother used to
>drive his MGA, an automobile I learned to hate on a trip from Cleveland
>to Los Angeles, with one hand on the steering wheel and the other
>banging on the fuel pump with a wrench (spanner). This was apparently
>a common condition, several times espied on the roads of southern
>California where the unwary drove those machines. To be fair, my brand
>new Ford Fairlane, purchased with ill-gotten gains from playing poker
>on paydays while in the army, was even more unreliable, but I always
>attributed that to cosmic retribution. Or Mondays at the Ford plant.
You were a mechanic and could not figure this out? First, the fuel
pump was not a Lucas product, but from SU. Second, CLEAN THE
CONTACTS. The US Army found the SU fuel pump almost unbeatable in the
gasser M88. But you have to CLEAN THE CONTACTS every 20,000 miles or so.
Do your maintenance and all is well. Act like a jerk and ignore
realities, and cars fail you. Go figure.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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