Posted by JimG
on 8/26/2008, 7:34 am
70.110.123.86
Well, I had to go "rescue" Amelia for the 2nd time late last week. A tiny piece of debris got between the needle and the seat of the carb causing the bowl to fill up and overflow.
Car is a '63 Falcon, 170, with a new rebuilt fuel pump (from Advance Auto). Carb is (I think) an 1100, rebuilt by Holley and purchased at Auto Zone. You can see pictures of the carb and fuel pump here
http://home.earthlink.net/~jimg185/index.html
You will need to wait for the slideshow to get to the engine (sorry!). The greasy red engine has the carb and fuel pump in question. There's no air cleaner in place so you can see the carb.
Wishing not to be stranded for this same reason yet again, we got serious last Sunday. We inspected the built-in fuel filter (the one that's mounted inside the fuel pump) and found that it was a folded-paper filer - just as you'd expect.
So, I added an inline fuel filter under the car at the fuel tank. I realize that mounting the filter on the suction side of the fuel pump isn't the ideal way to go, but I'm hoping this is temporary, and I didn't want to butcher our underhood hard fuel line.
My thinking is this: zillions of these cars ran just fine for years with nothing but a built-in fuel filter. I shouldn't need to add anythything. Is there a known issue with some of the built-in fuel filters being junk and others being good? Is there a magic "high quality" fuel filter out there somewhere that all you Falcon gurus discovered years ago? Am I being unrealistic in my expectation that we should be able to drive this car for more than a week without the carb gushing like a courthouse fountain?
Please share any pertinent experience.
Thanks in advance,
Jim
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