[Gmecm] In-line fuel pumps with TBI

[Charles McDowell]

Don't I need that filter though?  Otherwise I'd have no filter at all.  I
could put a high pressure one after, but I'd like to protect the pump. 

-----Original Message-----
From: gmecm-bounces at diy-efi.org [mailto:gmecm-bounces at diy-efi.org] On Behalf
Of Steve Ravet
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:40 PM
To: gmecm at diy-efi.org
Subject: RE: [Gmecm] In-line fuel pumps with TBI

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gmecm-bounces at diy-efi.org
> [mailto:gmecm-bounces at diy-efi.org] On Behalf Of Charles McDowell
> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 3:51 PM
> To: gmecm at diy-efi.org
> Subject: [Gmecm] In-line fuel pumps with TBI
> 
> I'm running a TBI conversion on a Chevy 350.  I just replaced the tank 
> and sending unit, and now I can't get the engine to start.  The 
> situation is that for the conversion I used an in-line electric fuel 
> pump, placed low on the frame halfway between the truck and engine.  I 
> never had a problem before, but right now it seems like the pump won't 
> prime.  I don't really understand, since I've got it to where it self 
> siphons from the tank at the point where it enters the pump (actually 
> at the fuel filter right in front of the pump)- I used a

I think that's your problem, the fuel filter before the pump.  Too hard to
suck fuel through.

--steve

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