Petrol leak

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Larry

Guest

• Aug 25, 2004

• #1

Strong smell of petrol in the cab today, so I stop and lift up the bonnet
with the engine running only to see the stuff fairly gushing out over the
distributor cap.

Then I noticed something I had not before, some plumbers nightmare of a
gizmo between the petrol pump and the rest of the tubing. No idea what it is
because it is certainly not in the manual, and there is a filter further
along the line. Any ideas, it looks for all the world like something left
over from a moonshiners still.


--
Larry
Series 3 rust and holes

 

M

Mother

Guest

• Aug 25, 2004

• #2

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:46:13 +0100, "Larry" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Then I noticed something I had not before, some plumbers nightmare of a
>gizmo between the petrol pump and the rest of the tubing. No idea what it is
>because it is certainly not in the manual, and there is a filter further
>along the line. Any ideas, it looks for all the world like something left
>over from a moonshiners still.

Sedimenter?

 

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JD

Guest

• Aug 25, 2004

• #3

Larry wrote:

> Strong smell of petrol in the cab today, so I stop and lift up the bonnet
> with the engine running only to see the stuff fairly gushing out over the
> distributor cap.
>
> Then I noticed something I had not before, some plumbers nightmare of a
> gizmo between the petrol pump and the rest of the tubing. No idea what it
> is because it is certainly not in the manual, and there is a filter
> further along the line. Any ideas, it looks for all the world like
> something left over from a moonshiners still.
>
>
Probably an added in line fuel filter. Assuming the engine you refer to is a
2.25 (these are most common) standard setup has a sediment trap with a
glass bowl on the pump and a a wire screen there and on the pickup pipe in
the tank. Many owners add an after market paper filter, and that is
probably what you have found.

It does help if you say what model you are talking about.
JD

 

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Judith

Guest

• Aug 25, 2004

• #4

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:46:42 +1000, JD <[email protected]> wrote:

>Assuming the engine you refer to is a
>2.25 (these are most common) standard setup has a sediment trap with a
>glass bowl on the pump and a a wire screen there and on the pickup pipe in
>the tank. Many owners add an after market paper filter, and that is
>probably what you have found.

I agree.

On my first Series III (2286cc Petrol), I had a glass-bowl sedimenter
on the petrol pump but also had an inline filter which was a white
plastic cylinder, about 2" long and 1.5" in diameter. I had all sorts
of problems with dirty fuel to begin with. The carburettor was full
of sand. (Can't blame the poor little Landy. Someone had set fire to
it and I had to have it delivered on a trailer as there wasn't a huge
amount left and what there was was full of soot, melted stuff and
water.)

I also had to re-route the rubber fuel lines as the engine kept
cutting out when it got hot. Oh those were the days. <sigh>

When I replaced the fuel pump I used the sedimenter glass bowl as a
whisky glass. Waste not, want not.

Judith

 

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SimonJ

Guest

• Aug 25, 2004

• #5

> Then I noticed something I had not before, some plumbers nightmare of a
> gizmo between the petrol pump and the rest of the tubing. No idea what it
is
> because it is certainly not in the manual, and there is a filter further
> along the line. Any ideas, it looks for all the world like something left
> over from a moonshiners still.
>
Possibly one of those 'fuel saver' gadgets, you know the ones that give you
300mpg from a V8!

 

P

Paul - xxx

Guest

• Aug 25, 2004

• #6

SimonJ vaguely muttered something like ...
>> Then I noticed something I had not before, some plumbers nightmare of a
>> gizmo between the petrol pump and the rest of the tubing. No idea what
>> it is because it is certainly not in the manual, and there is a filter
>> further along the line. Any ideas, it looks for all the world like
>> something left over from a moonshiners still.
>>
> Possibly one of those 'fuel saver' gadgets, you know the ones that give
> you 300mpg from a V8!

I thought they were made from rocking horse **** ...

--
Paul ...

(8(|) ... Homer Rocks

"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

 

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Larry

Guest

• Aug 25, 2004

• #7

Not so much a filter as a distillation column from an oil refinery with too
many nuts and flanges.

I have a paper filter way up in the line but this thing is massive, as for
the glass bowl, well I had one but not any more, it leaked and the present
pump is devoid of that ornamental fish tank.

Thank heavens for duck tape. I suppose this doodah has some benefit in
keeping the muck out the carb but is petrol mucky enough to justify that
nowadays ?


--
þT

L'autisme c'est moi

"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and
expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not
believe in the laws of mathematics"




"Judith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:46:42 +1000, JD <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I agree.
>
> On my first Series III (2286cc Petrol), I had a glass-bowl sedimenter
> on the petrol pump but also had an inline filter which was a white
> plastic cylinder, about 2" long and 1.5" in diameter. I had all sorts
> of problems with dirty fuel to begin with. The carburettor was full
> of sand. (Can't blame the poor little Landy. Someone had set fire to
> it and I had to have it delivered on a trailer as there wasn't a huge
> amount left and what there was was full of soot, melted stuff and
> water.)
>
> I also had to re-route the rubber fuel lines as the engine kept
> cutting out when it got hot. Oh those were the days. <sigh>
>
> When I replaced the fuel pump I used the sedimenter glass bowl as a
> whisky glass. Waste not, want not.
>
> Judith

 

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Dave White

Guest

• Aug 26, 2004

• #8

In <[email protected]> Larry wrote:
> Not so much a filter as a distillation column from an oil refinery
> with too many nuts and flanges.
>
> I have a paper filter way up in the line but this thing is massive, as
> for the glass bowl, well I had one but not any more, it leaked and the
> present pump is devoid of that ornamental fish tank.
>
> Thank heavens for duck tape. I suppose this doodah has some benefit in
> keeping the muck out the carb but is petrol mucky enough to justify
> that nowadays ?

The main benefit of the glass bowl is it separates water out of the fuel
for you. Sediment also gets separated out by filters but water doesn't.
Having said that, they don't work very well off road as the shaking and
vibration tends to mix it all up again !

As for your mysterious doodah - I'd put my money on one of the snake oil
fuel "conditioners" - maybe one of those magnetic ones that's supposed
to realign all the molecules in the fuel so they sit in the float
chamber in a more orderly fashion

cheers

Dave W.
http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net/

 

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Jack Kerouac

Guest

• Sep 4, 2004

• #9

"Dave White" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> As for your mysterious doodah - I'd put my money on one of the snake oil
> fuel "conditioners" - maybe one of those magnetic ones that's supposed
> to realign all the molecules in the fuel so they sit in the float
> chamber in a more orderly fashion
>
> cheers
>
> Dave W.
> http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net/

The previous owner of my '86 disco installed one of those magnet gadgets. I
laughed when I came across it. I figured I'd remove it to save on weight.
LOL