Midget Fuel Pump Location

[bikemonster]

Hi All

Not quite as silly as it sounds. I am not looking for the fuel pump on my car ('62 Mk I Midget), I want to know where the electrical fuel pump on later cars was located.

Reason being is that I am adding a secondary fuel pump to my car. I live in Cape Town, and when it gets hot, the engine mounted fuel pump can't cope as heat soak causes fuel to vapourise in the pump. I've replaced the original pump (which as far as I can tell was as old as the car!) and tried heat-wrapping the exhaust manifold but still the problem persists.

So I will be adding an electrical pump, and would like to add it in the same place as BMC/Leyland saw fit to use for the later cars.

Thanks in advance

James

[hearselover]

Mine is infront of the rear right hand wheel 1974 car (as you look from the back) mounted up to the left of the front spring hanger if that makes sense.

Ash

[bikemonster]

hearselover said:

Mine is infront of the rear right hand wheel 1974 car (as you look from the back) mounted up to the left of the front spring hanger if that makes sense.

Ash

Thanks Ash.

Makes perfect sense.

James

[perdu]

A picture is said to save a thousand words

(they didnt know me when they said that though!)

The pump is a replacement that sits in the usual Midget bracket (1966 car)

the bracket wasn't mounted on a rubber cotton reel originally but this is an attempt to keep the pump noise down

a pump I had there before worked constantly, rattling like a rattling thing

the new one is quiet as some mices

ho hum...

HTH

Edited by perdu on Wednesday 9th December 13:22

[bikemonster]

Thanks perdu

That is indeed more than equivalent to the standard words exchange rate.

I will get the job done before the end of the week.

James

[bikemonster]

Job done!

Facet pump makes a happy buzzy sound (I used rubber between the pump and the car body to quieten things a bit), no fuel leaks and now the car will start a whole lot easier. One of the niggles with a Mk I Midget is that if I haven't used the car for a while, it takes a long time to suck fuel from the tank to the carbs.

Thanks for the help.

James

[perdu]

glad you are set to go

happy to help



bill