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[GreaseMonkey]

Hi.

The mini has a Red Facet fuel pump, however I have difficulty starting the damn thing, is the pump mounted too high?



Its not a recent pic, the level on the regulator at the moment is about a 1/4 up from the bottom

It has fuel but not much, have stuck about a fiver in?

I might try bringing the Reg and pump down to the boot floor to see if that makes any difference? Or taking the Reg out and have a pipe going directly to the pump?

Any ideas?

Cheers

[GreaseMonkey]

Found the instructions for the Reg, the pipe/connection pointing down is the inlet and the other the outlet.

The pump seems to be plumbed in after the reg so its trying to suck the fuel from the reg rather than pushing it through the reg?

Is that the problem?

[Dan]

Facet pumps are all delivery pumps, not lift pumps. They need to be fed by gravity because they don't draw very powerfully. It's too high. Ideally it will be pushing through the filter. The level in the filter bowl doesn't mean anything really.

[Stevie W]

Could be,

Facet fuel pumps should be sited at or below the bottom of the tank (the rear subframe where the old SU electric pumps used to be is a good place).

The regulator should be on the outlet side of the pump it would also be worth makimg sure the pump inlet is actually connected to the tank output!

Cheers, Steve

[Puddings]

just try putting fresh fuel in there buddy as that stuff as been in there a while so will have lost a bit of its octane rating and it was tuned to run on high octane so get it to that shell garage at the end of the road and give it a tank of optimax. Also the garage fitted the pump and all the gubbings so its going to be right

[GreaseMonkey]

Turns out it is all okay, the choke cable wasn't putting the choke on properly and battery needed a charge, fired up today!!

[Puddings]

also i have not had a problem with it in the 2 years it was mine it has done a few ring trips and countless miles in the position its in now so must be something else as i have said fresh fuel and check to see if the carbs have come out of balance

[Dan]

Puddings when did you sell up?! I'm shocked, I thought you loved that car. I know we all did.

Technially the pump should be gravity fed but if it was working then it was working!

[GreaseMonkey]

Seems to be fine now Dan, I think the battery needed a good kick up the bum and the choke cable needs to be pulled hard.

But I have a new problem

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