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Originally Posted by TJ's Chevy
Thanks man! Yeah, I'll be going electric as far as the pump is concerned. Changing to a rear frame mount tank so I'd like to have the pump mounted as close to the tank as possible. Fuel pumps don't like pulling...learned that the hard way. lol  |
Yeah, copy that. Does that allow you to use a 250 cam?
I had a '67 K/10 454 Suburban with tanks in the rear. When the PO's generic electric pump burned out at work, I was able to cut in the stock mechanical fuel pump and get home. Later I went to a Holley Red electric fuel pump, but didn't use the cut-off safety [oil pressure] switch. Fuel select stayed on (pilot error). A backfire caught my oily K&N air cleaner on fire and it was melting thru the plastic clear fuel filter just when help showed up with big red CO 2 bottles. The Sub's been down ever since. Still a ''future project'' but I'm not so keen on rebuilding the BBC.
Moral: don't use plastic fuel filters and don't skip the safety cut-off switch.
Now I use the Holley pump to siphon gas out of jerrycans into my trucks. Electric fuel pumps work great when you respect them.