I put in a new fuel level sender. It took me longer than it should have. I thought I had less gas in the tank than I did but, since my old sender wasn't working, I guessed wrong.
Anyways. I get the new sender in and fired the car up. Idles fine. I add the gas I took out (about 3 gallons) and head off to the gas station.
I drive maybe 200 yards and it dies. no fuel pressure (I have a gauge). So I add a couple more gallons but no bueno.
I realized I picked the wrong fuel line. A long time ago I had fuel injection and added a return line to the sending unit. When I went back to a carb I capped off one of the lines in the engine bay.
But at the sender there were still two fuel lines and somehow I picked the wrong one.
So after several tries putting fuel down the carb throat I figured out the problem, switched to the other line and fired it up. Great. Running good.
Then I drove it about 4 miles. It died again. Kind of lost power and just quit. Again, no fuel pressure. So I added a couple more gallons and put a little more down the carb and it fired up and I got it home. Barely.
I can only get about 2lbs of pressure and 'bubbles' come into the clear fuel filter.
There was a lot of oil leaking from the engine so I checked the oil level and it is very high. I just changed the oil last week.
So I think the fuel pump diaphram sprung a leak into the crank case. It would explain the lack of fuel pressure and the abnormally high oil level. I am going to check it again in the morning. If the oil level is still high I will drain the oil and replace the fuel pump.
Any thoughts?
Oh, the gauge works now.
Anyways. I get the new sender in and fired the car up. Idles fine. I add the gas I took out (about 3 gallons) and head off to the gas station.
I drive maybe 200 yards and it dies. no fuel pressure (I have a gauge). So I add a couple more gallons but no bueno.
I realized I picked the wrong fuel line. A long time ago I had fuel injection and added a return line to the sending unit. When I went back to a carb I capped off one of the lines in the engine bay.
But at the sender there were still two fuel lines and somehow I picked the wrong one.
So after several tries putting fuel down the carb throat I figured out the problem, switched to the other line and fired it up. Great. Running good.
Then I drove it about 4 miles. It died again. Kind of lost power and just quit. Again, no fuel pressure. So I added a couple more gallons and put a little more down the carb and it fired up and I got it home. Barely.
I can only get about 2lbs of pressure and 'bubbles' come into the clear fuel filter.
There was a lot of oil leaking from the engine so I checked the oil level and it is very high. I just changed the oil last week.
So I think the fuel pump diaphram sprung a leak into the crank case. It would explain the lack of fuel pressure and the abnormally high oil level. I am going to check it again in the morning. If the oil level is still high I will drain the oil and replace the fuel pump.
Any thoughts?
Oh, the gauge works now.
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