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The car has no AC, nor does it have a working AC/heater/defogger
controller on the dash panel. Heat is supplied through a single blower
that is located in what would normally be the glove compartment. This
setup is good enough for the cooler months -- I don't drive the car at
all from December to March.
There's a big gap on the left side of the firewall as you face the
motor -- it could be that it used to hold an AC unit.
I don't know if this car was shipped with the 400 that is in it. I
have the feeling that the 400 was added later because in the thick set
of papers that came with the car, I have a hand-written receipt for
$1250 for a "rebuilt motor" that was done or sold by a garage in
Queens. The garage is now out of business and no other info is
available. This is why I haven't bothered to check into whether the
car is "numbers matching" -- I assume that it is not.
The fuel pump is an after-market electric. The first thing we did was
move it out of the engine area and into the trunk. It gets hot but
works great. There's a separate switch on the dash that controls the
pump -- as you probably know, this is typical on "drag-racing" cars.
People tell me that I should tie it into the ignition, but it all
works well enough, so I haven't bothered.
On May 28, 2008, at 12:20 AM, hugot wrote:
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The 400's and AC cars had a return line from the fuel pump. It's
possible that the previous owner swapped the fuel pump for a non-
return one or that he swapped the gas tank or the sending unit or ....
Is your car a 400 or was it originally an AC equipped car?
Hugo
At 08:55 PM 5/27/2008, you wrote:
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Made another discovery about my Firebird last weekend. Stopped for
gas
in New Jersey (no gas tax -- 93 is selling for $3.99 today). After
filling up, the attendant pointed out that gas was leaking from what
appeared to be the fuel tank. Never noticed this before.
I got underneath it -- gas was running from a hose connected to the
gas tank. I'd seen this hose before -- it leads to nowhere. Never was
connected to anything. I did not understand its purpose.
I bought a gas can and collected the runoff -- THREE GALLONS. After
dealing with this, the car started up and has run fine ever since,
without any "gas leak" -- as long as I don't fill the tank.
It looks like the previous owner ran a hose out of the gas tank for
"runoff." Why would someone do that? A three-gallon runoff? What
could
be the purpose of this?
I recall the previous owner advising me not to fill the tank all the
way. When I asked him "Why not?" he said, "Oh, you can fill it, go
ahead." Why wasn't the guy honest with me? I'd already paid for the
car, so it wasn't like I was going to come back at him.
Can I safely plug up this hose, and thereby put this matter to rest?
Or should I weld that tank hole? I'd like to be able to fill my tank
with gas.
Also discovered that there is a two-line sending unit inside the
tank.
Apparently this is a performance enhancement that feeds unused gas
back into the tank.
Thanks,
Dan O'Brien
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