Re: [alfa] Fuel pump reliability

[Bernie & Diana Bennett <bennetts77833@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed is that a SPICA car with a fuel cut off impact switch on the 
firewall? Alfettas had 'em. Don't know about spiders. If you have a fuel 
cutoff safety switch on your firewall, sometimes it needs to be reset 
(pull button out or push button in can't recall) If it's working right 
it totally cuts off the fuel pump in case of an accident. But driving 
over bumps sometimes activates it . . .

Best Wishes,
Bernie Bennett

Ed & Marsha Prytherch wrote:

>George Graves wrote
>  
>
>>But the British cars have soul
>>    
>>
>and character, and while different from Italian cars, are every bit as
>much fun - if you don't mind laying on your back by the side of the
>road occasionally with the knock-off hammer banging the hell out of a
>stuck S.U. fuel pump!<
>
>I agree with the Italian/British car sentiment (and I'm an expat Brit) but
>if you had been driving along I20 near Columbia SC at 4:15 this afternoon
>you would have seen my feet sticking out from under my spider as I tried to
>figure out why I was getting no gas to the Webers. I wasn't banging the hell
>out of the fuel pump but I was finding out that the pressure had dropped to
>next to nothing. I think that it was a fuse connection, but this is not the
>first time that it has failed and it is always on hot afternoons when I have
>driven about 20 miles. The pump is a Facet.
>
>Ed Prytherch, Columbia SC
>79 Spider
>73 GTV
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