{"id":3445,"date":"2023-11-29T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2023-11-29T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:21:11","slug":"fuel-pump-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/?p=3445","title":{"rendered":"Fuel pump woes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1698.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1698.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1698.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1698-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Salt on the roads and it&#8217;s time to take &#8216;Moody Blue&#8217; the &#8217;66 Studebaker Commander off the road for the winter. I&#8217;ll be switching between the Chevy and the Stude over the winter. I need to do work on the doors and a the hood.  Also I&#8217;ve decided to put the front bumper back on and see if I like the look better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1701.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1701.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1701-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The engine and the AC worked flawlessly over the summer.  I was able to switch back to the original primary needle springs and still not get any hesitation. Bumping up the timing from 4 to 8 degrees did the trick. It eliminated both the take off hesitation and the sluggish acceleration from stop when the AC was on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1697.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1697.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1697.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1697-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile back at the Chevy my startup after the carb job and a new fuel pump was a failure. Spun the engine over many times and no fuel.  Put a little fuel down the carb and it started right up. Did that a number of times and still no fuel. Good side is that when it did start for a brief time it ran at a nice fast idle. It should be OK if I can get the fuel up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1699.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1699.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1699.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_1699-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing for it but to pull the pump and check it out. The old short fuel pump isn&#8217;t  correct for the &#8217;79 model. Hard to see, but the pump arm on the new pump is further out from the mounting face.  Could this be the problem? I&#8217;ll take the pump back and get a new one in case it is faulty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next: more on the pump and a bit on the Studebaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt on the roads and it&#8217;s time to take &#8216;Moody Blue&#8217; the &#8217;66 Studebaker Commander off the road for the winter. I&#8217;ll be switching between the Chevy and the Stude over the winter. I need to do work on the doors and a the hood. Also I&#8217;ve decided to put the front bumper back on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/?p=3445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fuel pump woes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}