Fuel pump kinks?
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From: Beautiful Down Town "SWINDLEHURST" Long Island NY
Fuel pump kinks?
Soooo I go to Manny - Mo and Jacks to get brake pads and shoes for the Wifeys Cherokee. Get the stuff and say to myself get a price on a 85 fuel pump for da 84. Bob looks it up -- its cheaper than anything I found on-line. I say "1 - 85 pump, 1 - pump sock, and a fuel filter for a 84 Corvette please" --- " What you have 2 Corvette's ?" 15 Min's. later I pay for the stuff.
I get home "Look honey I gots brakes for your Jeepie" She looks in the bag and said " YOU SPENT MORE MONEY ON THAT BLACK ROLLING PIECE OF CRAP -- DIDN'T YOU!" - "IS IT EVER GOING TO END ?" I say "On channel 7 there's a horse race on -- maybe your Mother will place this time". I do her brakes ( first ). Then pulled the gas hatch off da vette and found this ---
I gots da kinks --
And this one too, but not as bad --
I also found there's more than enough space between the tank and tail above the plate / tag to put an oil cooler in there with fan -- maybe 8 to 10 inches deep.
The question is are kinks a bad thing ?
I get home "Look honey I gots brakes for your Jeepie" She looks in the bag and said " YOU SPENT MORE MONEY ON THAT BLACK ROLLING PIECE OF CRAP -- DIDN'T YOU!" - "IS IT EVER GOING TO END ?" I say "On channel 7 there's a horse race on -- maybe your Mother will place this time". I do her brakes ( first ). Then pulled the gas hatch off da vette and found this ---
I gots da kinks --
And this one too, but not as bad --
I also found there's more than enough space between the tank and tail above the plate / tag to put an oil cooler in there with fan -- maybe 8 to 10 inches deep.
The question is are kinks a bad thing ?
Le Mans Master
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From: Santa Maria CA
That does not look right. Is that the correct tank? Mine looked similar to this in terms of depth and hose straightness:
You don't want to restrict fuel flow in any way.
You don't want to restrict fuel flow in any way.
Last edited by 86PACER; Aug 11, 2007 at 08:41 PM.
Le Mans Master
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Yeah, that does not look right to me either. My 86 and 92 look like what 86PACER posted. Could be that the fuel lines from the tank forward are from a different year C4. I was sure they were all similar, but ???
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From: Beautiful Down Town "SWINDLEHURST" Long Island NY
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And I installed the "85" pump and straitened the lines ( no kinks ) 
I can't believe how good it runs. They say after a good accident, it will never run right again.
I gots "Top-end Again"
Kinks are bad !
I can't believe how good it runs. They say after a good accident, it will never run right again.
I gots "Top-end Again"
Kinks are bad !
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Soooo I go to Manny - Mo and Jacks to get brake pads and shoes for the Wifeys Cherokee. Get the stuff and say to myself get a price on a 85 fuel pump for da 84. Bob looks it up -- its cheaper than anything I found on-line. I say "1 - 85 pump, 1 - pump sock, and a fuel filter for a 84 Corvette please" --- " What you have 2 Corvette's ?" 15 Min's. later I pay for the stuff.
I get home "Look honey I gots brakes for your Jeepie" She looks in the bag and said " YOU SPENT MORE MONEY ON THAT BLACK ROLLING PIECE OF CRAP -- DIDN'T YOU!" - "IS IT EVER GOING TO END ?" I say "On channel 7 there's a horse race on -- maybe your Mother will place this time". I do her brakes ( first ). Then pulled the gas hatch off da vette and found this ---
I gots da kinks --
And this one too, but not as bad --
I also found there's more than enough space between the tank and tail above the plate / tag to put an oil cooler in there with fan -- maybe 8 to 10 inches deep.
The question is are kinks a bad thing ?
I get home "Look honey I gots brakes for your Jeepie" She looks in the bag and said " YOU SPENT MORE MONEY ON THAT BLACK ROLLING PIECE OF CRAP -- DIDN'T YOU!" - "IS IT EVER GOING TO END ?" I say "On channel 7 there's a horse race on -- maybe your Mother will place this time". I do her brakes ( first ). Then pulled the gas hatch off da vette and found this ---
I gots da kinks --
And this one too, but not as bad --
I also found there's more than enough space between the tank and tail above the plate / tag to put an oil cooler in there with fan -- maybe 8 to 10 inches deep.
The question is are kinks a bad thing ?
but as far as your car goes, the "kinks" are a restriction........should be "straightened" out...
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From: The Top of Utah
Originally Posted by RICEKILA
And I installed the "85" pump and straitened the lines ( no kinks )
Kinks are bad !
Kinks are bad !
RACE ON!!!
