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- RatherBeJeeping
I picked up a 2nd hand 6211 a year ago and the former owner installed an electric fuel pump on it.
It has run great until the pick up line on the fuel tank clogged. In the process of diagnosing this and fixing it I put in a new fuel filter (single element model) and removed the sediment bowl after seeing how much air it was picking up (before I knew these self bleed).
I found that the return line wasn't going to the tank, but a T in the line just before the new pump. The return line was left open at the tank, which seems so wrong to me.
I blew out the feed line since it was badly clogged and had to run a speedometer cable down it attached to a drill to clean it out. Somebody in the past put some kind of liquid metal so I can't change the pick up. I ended up changing the pick up line to the straight pipe instead of the zig zag one and put the return to the formerly clogged side.
Now it starts and runs if I hold in the hand pump when it's starting, but it stalls and I have to hold that back down again to get it to start. I looks like this isn't the kind that you can screw down http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/images/g/HCwAAOSwpzdWsL-o/s-l225.jpg
I would think that the 5-7 psi pump would be pushing fuel past this but I'm not sure how it works on the inside.
It has run great until the pick up line on the fuel tank clogged. In the process of diagnosing this and fixing it I put in a new fuel filter (single element model) and removed the sediment bowl after seeing how much air it was picking up (before I knew these self bleed).
I found that the return line wasn't going to the tank, but a T in the line just before the new pump. The return line was left open at the tank, which seems so wrong to me.
I blew out the feed line since it was badly clogged and had to run a speedometer cable down it attached to a drill to clean it out. Somebody in the past put some kind of liquid metal so I can't change the pick up. I ended up changing the pick up line to the straight pipe instead of the zig zag one and put the return to the formerly clogged side.
Now it starts and runs if I hold in the hand pump when it's starting, but it stalls and I have to hold that back down again to get it to start. I looks like this isn't the kind that you can screw down http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/images/g/HCwAAOSwpzdWsL-o/s-l225.jpg
I would think that the 5-7 psi pump would be pushing fuel past this but I'm not sure how it works on the inside.
