Congrats! Glad it worked out.
A running car is better than a garage queen!
Good work!
Be aware! When judging concours, I found that the underside reveals
much. Like the gullwing with a really cruddy underside, wrong exhaust
clamps, overspray, etc. I deducted all the points I could, but it was
still not enough.
Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote on 3/17/19 9:14 AM:
Just finished up my fuel pump replacement. Here’s the deal:
Jaime was kind enough to refer me to a text he had seen from Pieter Van Rossum,
a W113 guy, where he had replaced the stock “tall” fuel pump with a generic
Carter pump.
I got a Carter pump the same day from the Island of Large Wimmen for $102.00. A
pittance compared to the minimum of $700 or so in the market for rebuilt or
used stock fuel pumps. I spent a fair amount of time yesterday adapting the
mounting and getting the lines and fittings set up. They actually worked out
well, as you’ll see. It was also a good opportunity to replace all of the old
hoses at the tank and pump while I was there. Not fun, but not too bad of a job
despite how much I hate working around gasoline.
Since I had the instrument cluster out of the car for the dash pad replacement,
I couldn’t start the engine yesterday as the oil pressure gauge and capillary
tube for the coolant temperature gauge were both disconnected. I did turn
everything on last night and it ran and made pressure, no leaks. Loud compared
to the stock pump, but hey, for $100 I’ll live with it.
Got the gauges connected this morning and fired it up. Success! I haven’t taken
the car on the road yet, but I suspect it should be fine. More as I know it.
As icing on the cake, as I was collecting all the parts together for the old
pump I found the bulk of the “missing” brush spring. I might be able to reuse
it after bending a new end on the remains of the spring. Woo-hoo!
Here’s a link to a lousy cell phone photo. The return line is hanging in the
foreground with a hose clamp on it:
http://penoff.com/photo_dump.html#0
Carter P4601HP inline electric pump - $102.00
2” PVC rubber coupling - $4.00
3 - Corner braces - $4.00
6 - M5 nuts, washers - $2.00
Miscellaneous hose, clamps, crimp connectors, etc - stock
I’ll have a far more detailed update in my blog probably tonight. I gotta get
back to finishing up the dash….
-D
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