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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Fuel Pump Protection Relocation Program - Complete!
Back in September 2011, we relocated the Holley Red Fuel Pump to be below the fuel cell, as called for in the "Previous owner didn't bother to read instruction manual for Holley Red Fuel Pumps" Manual. That's the actual title on the book, yes.
All that open space bothered me; images of detached LeMons Crap bouncing off the tarmac (Dave was hit in the windshield by the National Lampoon's Vacation Station Wagon dog at Summit!) and up into the fuel pump area causing damage seemed so unnecessary... and let's face it, if destruction is to be had it better be in a location that is film-able and far more spectacular than fuel starvation due to dead pump. Yawn!
So, here's the cage we've wrapped around the old 6V MGB Battery Compartment that now contains the fuel pump. It is specifically NOT solid metal/tin/wood/plastic/kerosene-soaked-rags, as the pump tends to get HOT and I wanted to extra soothing cooling of the wind through it's hair, so to speak.
Made out of "Hardware Cloth" which is galvanized steel with 1/4 inch spacing. See, the car's English, so I'm allowed too use inches as a unit of measurement, unlike those other Eurotrash weenies that have to use "metric", whatever the hell that is.
(view from top)
All that open space bothered me; images of detached LeMons Crap bouncing off the tarmac (Dave was hit in the windshield by the National Lampoon's Vacation Station Wagon dog at Summit!) and up into the fuel pump area causing damage seemed so unnecessary... and let's face it, if destruction is to be had it better be in a location that is film-able and far more spectacular than fuel starvation due to dead pump. Yawn!
So, here's the cage we've wrapped around the old 6V MGB Battery Compartment that now contains the fuel pump. It is specifically NOT solid metal/tin/wood/plastic/kerosene-soaked-rags, as the pump tends to get HOT and I wanted to extra soothing cooling of the wind through it's hair, so to speak.
Made out of "Hardware Cloth" which is galvanized steel with 1/4 inch spacing. See, the car's English, so I'm allowed too use inches as a unit of measurement, unlike those other Eurotrash weenies that have to use "metric", whatever the hell that is.
NASCAR called with job offer, I shrugged them off:
View from bottom, or "bum" as the English call it:
Views from the top:
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Safety Wired all drain plugs, except the most important one, naturally.
Drilling a hole in the MGB Differential Drain Plug for the safety wire:
Here is the differential drain and filler plug safety wired to the axle housing:
...and here is the transmission drain plug safety wired to... I have no idea what that piece is, but it moves with the transmission, so it's not just good, it's good enough.
Somehow when doing the oil change, I forgot to drill a hole to safety wire the oil drain plug. D'OH!
Here is a pic of the MGB differential plug removal tool Scot & I hacked up one late winter night in 2011.\; it's a 3/8th to 1/2 inch drive adapter which we attacked with a grinder to fit the square hole in the drain and filler plug.
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