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Carb off, fuel pump off. Look inside fuel pump galley and there are metal shavings. Take fuel pump apart and in the top of it are metal shavings. Getting ready to drain oil. Ryan, the car did this at about 210*. Never got over 195* on the guage with the e-fan........of course it never ran long enough either. Fuel line wasn't touching anything. Don't know if this was causing the problem but it certainly was not a good find.
 
"blue65coupe" said:
Look inside fuel pump galley and there are metal shavings. Take fuel pump apart and in the top of it are metal shavings.
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Been there, done that. Hope yours is not as bad as mine was Duane.
 
Rick, no relay except for the temp control "on/off". J, I don't know what to say. Big balloon pop. If the oil looks clean I'm not gonna tear into it. I'll pull the dizzy (per Dave) and check the gear. I'm still assuming there's no MAJOR damage as it was not acting up 100% of the time. This may not have anything to do with the problem but I won't know till I diagnose this.
 
OK. Filtered the oil and it looks good. A VERY minimal amount of metal flakes. All of it seemed to be contained at the fuel pump. Pulled the dizzy and the gear has a very consistent wear pattern which leads me to believe that is where the flakes/shavings were coming from. The few cam gears I could see from looking down in the hole looked good. I'm going to assume it's ok and not tear into it any further. I'm going to re-install the dizzy (unless somebody screams "don't do it") and replace the fuel pump, clean up carb, re-install stock fan and see what happens. Somebody yell at me if I'm taking the wrong path. There's no way of knowing how the cam and gear set look without taking 'em out and I won't go this route unless it keeps acting up and I get a bad compression reading. Sound right?
 
Couldn't find the pump I wanted local so I cleaned my old, 1000 mile one up real good and put it back together. E-fan is off, mechanical back on. Going to pick up some new float needles for the carb tomorrow. The only other thing holding me back right now is figuring out how to limit the advance in my distributor. I've always been getting too much and decided to attack that since it's out. After those two things I'll fire it up and see what happens.
 
I'll caution against effing with too many things at once. I'll say from experience that sometimes you can solve the problem you set out to but not even know it because while changing things around, you created new problem. Just my $.02, but I would get the car back to "normal" before I'd go changing the advance and stuff like that, which could produce bad results if you f*** something up. Then again, maybe you're not as good at accidentally effing things up as I am :bow
 
Probably a good idea on the dizzy. I do have one stupid question. Had a brain fart while putting the mechanical fan back on. The outer edges of the blades turn in. When you put it back on, are the ends of the fan supposed to point toward the radiator or engine? It would make sense to point toward the engine but the curve of the blade is greater the other way. (And to think I'm messing with a carb)
 
This is for normal rotation, or as close to normal as it can be around here.
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My fan points to the radiator.
 
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Thanks Mark, perfect. Pete, at first I thought the square shroud was your radiator and was trying to figure out how you fit that beast in there. Then it dawned on me there was no bottom.
 
Ya, that is one of those PO POS that actually works until I get to the A/C install. It also has a rad. from a Toy 4-Runner. Fun finding a shroud.....
 
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