mrtask
Well-Known Member
I'm at the stage where I have to refit my petrol tank, getting all the breather pipes in the right place, and relocating the fuel reserve tap to the back of the car. I want to fit an electric pump after the tap. I can drill out the spot welds fixing the tap mounting bracket in the engine bay of my parts donor. I found a photo of a rear-mounted electric pump on britishv8.org, of Lance LeCerte's lovely restored NADA V8:
Where do I want to mount the tap bracket, and how, i.e. will nuts'n'bolts'n'spring washers be OK? Bolted to the panel beneath the rear seat squabs? What kind of fuel line do I need to buy to run from the reserve tap to the pump, then from the pump to the engine bay? What internal diameter, and how much hose (it is sold here by the metre)?
Emerging up into the engine bay, the new hose goes where? Across the bulkhead, along the top of the passenger side frame rail, along the engine tie-bar, to a filter, then to the carb, right? Should I drill a hole in the back of the passenger side steering 'turret' (?) and run the fuel line through the 'turret', emerging through the blanking plate and then along the frame rail?
Do I presumably have to run a new reserve cable alongside the new single long fuel line? Do I need a bracket of some sort at the end of that new longer cable? Where do I get such a cable, and presumably cable-outer/sleeve?
I'm betting this has been covered before, perhaps in a back issue of the P6 Owners Club magazine? Or that one of you chaps has carried out this task and can give me some hints.
I'll need to run wiring from the oil pump low-pressure sensor fuel pump cut-out (I have an SD1 timing cover). That runs alongside the new fuel line and longer reserve cable beneath the car, or into and through the passenger compartment, then out to the fuel pump beneath?
Look forward to some help here, I'm in uncharted terrain.
Where do I want to mount the tap bracket, and how, i.e. will nuts'n'bolts'n'spring washers be OK? Bolted to the panel beneath the rear seat squabs? What kind of fuel line do I need to buy to run from the reserve tap to the pump, then from the pump to the engine bay? What internal diameter, and how much hose (it is sold here by the metre)?
Emerging up into the engine bay, the new hose goes where? Across the bulkhead, along the top of the passenger side frame rail, along the engine tie-bar, to a filter, then to the carb, right? Should I drill a hole in the back of the passenger side steering 'turret' (?) and run the fuel line through the 'turret', emerging through the blanking plate and then along the frame rail?
Do I presumably have to run a new reserve cable alongside the new single long fuel line? Do I need a bracket of some sort at the end of that new longer cable? Where do I get such a cable, and presumably cable-outer/sleeve?
I'm betting this has been covered before, perhaps in a back issue of the P6 Owners Club magazine? Or that one of you chaps has carried out this task and can give me some hints.
I'll need to run wiring from the oil pump low-pressure sensor fuel pump cut-out (I have an SD1 timing cover). That runs alongside the new fuel line and longer reserve cable beneath the car, or into and through the passenger compartment, then out to the fuel pump beneath?
Look forward to some help here, I'm in uncharted terrain.