Fuel pump questions

Gordon McKenzie gmcken at direct.ca
Mon Dec 8 18:54:30 GMT 1997


bruce plecan wrote:
> 
> If you're doing a retrofit it's a piece of cake, just use a Mallory
> EFI fuel pump, they have one 14ish psi 60 gal/hr job.  That's positive
> displacement (gerotor), and you just splice it in, by the tank perferably
> below the fuel level.  Got mine at Summit, don't have the part no., but
> can look it up, if ya don't have a Mallory/Summit Catalog.  They say
> to use a filter between the pump and tank, I use a Mallory Filter (big
> AL job) but without filter, both in+out are on top, and just use the
> housing as a seperator, done about 40,000 miles. Usually tanks have more
> than one line in them and since your's is for off road use, you can use
> a Charcoal canister line as the return.  Just be sure it's not below the
> fuel level, or there will be excessive presssure in the return line.
>   HTH Bruce

Good to know. BTW, I'm told my return line from my fuel filter will not
be enough and that I'll need to re-plumb both the fuel and return line.
My Jeep Wagoneer is used more for on road (including summer towing) so
I'm not about to disconnect charcoal canister lines.

Any way, thanks for the info.

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