Posi's Do-over

Thanks for bailing me out again, Warloch. I hadn't even considered that it might be a metric size on the pump. I'm sure glad you did this conversion first.

 

Ordered the adapters for the fuel pump. Couldn't find them anywhere except for the link provided by Warloch. http://myworld.ebay.com/ebaymotors/fuelpumpsusa/ Actually, I did find them at Earl's Performance http://www.anplumbing.com/ but they had them in two different pitches for the 10mm thread and I didn't know which one was correct. The price at the EBay store was good anyway so they got my order. I also tracked down a source http://www.wholesalemarine.com/ for bulkhead fittings for the underseat tank that will (I hope) let me screw in the rollover vent and return line elbow. Except for a couple of odd and ends, I think I have everything for the fuel system.

 

Wouldn't this work?

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/RUS-670470/?rtype=10

 

:driving: ?

 

It must be nice!

 

Posi, I know you already found the fitting, but here is a really good place to find all kinds of odd ball fittings.

The fitting you were looking for is here
http://www.jegs.com/p/Russell/Russell-AN-Male-to-Metric-Male-Adapter-Fittings/756667/10002/-1

And here is the other stuff
http://www.jegs.com/c/Fuel-Carbs-Intakes_Fuel-Fittings-Hose-Fuel-Lines/10019/10002/-1

 

Whine whine snivle snivle grovel grovel.... POSI do u still have your rotiserie? Sale? Borrow , Beg? Steal when ur not looking and leave a bottle of Captain jack in its place? I am real interested in it if you still have it? PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


Hal I live over in sonora.. Near yosemite.....

 

Sorry copper204, that rotisserie is in Colorado right now and I don't think Rondog is going to part with it. You missed it by about a month.

 

Give me his address.. I will sneak over and borrow it while he is not looking.....LOL Oh well story of my life... I wish i had ur mad skills ur willys is looking darn awesome

 

Made a little more progress on Posi in the last few days. I installed the fuel pump, two solenoid valves, the lines from the filler to the rear tank, the supply line from the pump to the Powerjection unit and the fuel return line. The solenoid valve mounted to the frame switches between the underseat tank (not in yet) and the rear (aux) tank. The valve that's mounted to the hat channel switches the return line between the two tanks. The two valves are connected by a jumper wire so that they switch in-sync when I switch from one tank to the other. I am taking my underseat tank to Reno to have it boiled out before I put it in. I got carried away and forgot to install the filter, so I'll have to plumb that in tomorrow. I'm working on a little skid plate to protect the bottom of the frame mounted switch. It hangs down about an inch below the frame. It had to be there so that it would be below the bottom of the rear tank. I should be able to finish the wiring this week too.

 

Looks Great!
Man when I look at what you are doing it makes me want to start all over....

 

Nice work John. Remember filter before the pump

 

Retrotek advises against a filter before the pump, but I know Warloch has his before the pump and has no issues. I think Dummy did it that way too. I bought a fuel injection compatible pre-filter from Summit I'm going to use.

 

Walbro(the fuel pump I used) advises that the filter should be before the pump. They say that crap from the fuel tank can kill a pump real fast.

 

Two stage it.

Gotta agree with the above.

But--------the injectors probably will plug up on stuff that can safely pass through the pump.

I figure to have a filter both before, and after the pump.

The one before the pump is going to take out everything big enough to hurt the pump, and the one after will be to take out stuff that will hurt the injector.

The finer a filter is, the more it costs as a rule. No sense plugging it up with big stuff, let the cheaper "coarse" filter catch that.

Consider how the factory's do things-----in tank filter only has a screen around it, the really fine filter is after the pump, and before the injectors.

 

The pre-filter I have is 85 microns. I guess I'll be using the one that came with the Powerjection unit for after the pump. It's kinda big, although I guess I have room for it. Since the underseat tank is so close to the valve, it's going to take some doing to get a filter in there.

 

Could you use something like this??

Fits into the tank, but you may have to install a larger fitting on the tank bottom.



http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/appages/fingstrainers.php

Actually looks easy to create your own.