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Here we go- driving home on Friday on the expressway. Car starts bucking like crazy and stalls. I have been having a slight stutter at lower speeds for a while. I coast over to the side of the road and start to fret. DI Cassette? Fuel pump? Anyways- I can't hear the fuel pump running because of all the traffic so I start thinking what to do next. Over the course of about 15 minutes I decide to try it again. Ha-it started. I drive like a madman to get home calling junk yards on the way. One guy has a fuel pump for $65 and a DI for $165. I make it home and get out there and get both. I figure change the fuel pump now and carry the DI with me. I get the supply line off (the white valve) and of course break the black valve. My heart sinks. After about an hour of searching here I have the solution. Buy a new white valve and convert it. Pried the rest of the black valve out of the pump and get valve out of it. I hacksawed the new white valve,picked the rest of the bottom half out and popped the valve from the broken black one in. Hey-this is easy. Then of course how do you get that darn fuel line back on?? I read and read and search and search. BEST PIECE OF ADVISE IS GET A FLARE TOOL TO HOLD THE LINE. That works awsome- but still how to get that line on?? Stare at hoping it will pop on by itself and keep looking in all toolboxes to find that magical tool and there it was- an overhead valve spring compressor that I had used on one of my old mowers. Using that and the flare tool kept the valve in a mostly upright position so that it could be slowly compressed in.This has to be the biggest gezortney I have ever come up with. Thanks to all of you who take the time to post solutions to these mysteries. I would not be here without you. AND- if anyone in Rochester NY needs help with this please e-mail me- I want to give back.
ALSO - I have included a link to the tool i used
Marty
94 9K CDE n/a
149,000
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http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&vertical=TOOL&pid=00947704000
, Sat, 2 Jul 2005 15:43:41
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