At the start of this week I was away doing my Euro Basic 1 Offshore Survival up in Aberdeen - good fun! However this weekend my wife was away on a Spa break with friends so I decided to crack on with the car!
Here's one of me in my most fetching outfit of the course:
Anyway, back to the car...
I had wanted to fit my new alternator (a 45A Landrover one that I have clocked round to suit the V8 mounting arrangement) but the fan and pulley on the P6 use a smaller diameter shaft with a keyway- something I didnt realise until I had removed the old unit from the vehicle. Oh well, I put it back on and at least it should be easier to get off next time. :roll:
I then set about moving the fuel pump to the rear of the car as per Mr Testriders post. This went well, apart from removing the reserve tap which was a total ballache! The bottom pipe would not budge, and with my cut down spanner I didnt have much leverage, I was on the verge of giving up... I had just doused it in Plusgas when a neighbour came along and we started chatting- some 45mins later I tried again and voila! It flew off
Magic.
Pics!
Old bodgy setup with pump slung in the front:
Reserve tap- Grrrr....
Pump in its new home:
Plumbed in (Don't worry about proximity to the spring etc, there is plenty of room the angle makes it look bad
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And that is a water droplet on the pipe from the main feed. For some reason I had water dripping out around the hole where the tank pipework and sender poke through the base unit, I put it down to the rear being up on ramps and the amount of rain we have had? I also realised too late that I had 3 jubilee clips on the pipe feeding the pump, so one end got two of them
I ran a lead to the battery and ran the pump for a bit and sorted any leaks at both ends of the car. Satisfied that the wet side of things was ok I set about running a switched live to the boot from the coil. This follows the loom, goes through the dash and then follows the battery cable to the boot. I never realised how easy it was to remove the entire rear seat! The switched live is connected to a period Lucas 6RA relay, which then switches a fused live to the pump itself.
Switchover tap wise I have left it so that I am running on reserve at the moment, will look into what I can do with longer cables etc shortly.
Pic on the test drive: