Fuel pump replacement

[70NPORT]

I have the 70' Chrysler FSM.....and a Chiltons. Rarely do I scan the Chiltons for correct info but its nice to have as a backup. It sometimes shows drawings of the same mechanical item/part or fitting in a different view, but it is not NEARLY as complete as the FSM. I'll echo everyone else....get the FSM.

 

[Edison]

Great news! I got it running thanks to help fro you guys.

I took the whole thing apart again today thinking I didn't have the push rod right, and turns out I did. Before I put the pump on the first time, I greased up the pumps lever and tossed some on the push rod and when I put the pump in it seems to have wedged with the push rod and pushed it back up in its bore.

The hardest part was the line from the pump to the filter rounded off! I didn't have time to order one prefabbed so I ended up having to make one from some steel line with a threaded fitting. I went through three before I wisened up and bought a pipe bender, and then I went through two more! FAIL. I also replaced the rubber hose from the filter to the metal line to the carb.

Between the pump, the filter, grease, the metal gas lines I effed up, a pipe cutting tool and pipe bender the job cost me about $71 but I now have a piper cutter and pipe bender for future jobs (or I could return them to the store . . . shhhh. . .). Even though it cost me more to do it myself than most of you guys could have done it yourselves for, I at least accomplished it for less than the price of having it towed to a shop..

I ended up taking the alternator off and doing it from the top. The alternator belt doesn't look tight enough when the car is running but it feels like it has the right amount (or proper lack of) slack in it. I'll deal with that next but the battery was charging properly and I didn't have any squealing.

 

[68plymouth383]

Great!!

 

[commando1]

...a pipe cutting tool and pipe bender the job cost me about $71 but I now have a piper cutter and pipe bender for future jobs.
accomplished it for less than the price of having it towed to a shop..

See people?? And that's how it works!

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[Edison]

Drove it to the gas station, put a couple gallons in her and went to the car wash to get rid of the poop the birds deposited on us today. So far no issues, checked under the hood and car for leaks at the gas station but dry so far.

 

[detmatt]

Great news, what'll you tackle next?

 

[Edison]

Immediate future: oil change! I only have maybe 200 or so miles on the current oil but its been 3-4 months. Next up she needs a new set of plugs, wires, dizzy cap/rotor/points. Basic tune up. I'll replace the alternator belt and power steering belt. Then not too far after that I'll have the timing chain done.

 

[68plymouth383]

Why do people call a distributor a (Dizzy)??................

Immediate future: oil change! I only have maybe 200 or so miles on the current oil but its been 3-4 months. Next up she needs a new set of plugs, wires, dizzy cap/rotor/points. Basic tune up. I'll replace the alternator belt and power steering belt. Then not too far after that I'll have the timing chain done.

 

[Edison]

Why do people call a distributor a (Dizzy)??................

Too lazy to type. Although I don't call a transmission a tranny.

 

[bluefury361]

Between the pump, the filter, grease, the metal gas lines I effed up, a pipe cutting tool and pipe bender the job cost me about $71 but I now have a piper cutter and pipe bender for future jobs (or I could return them to the store . . . shhhh. . .). Even though it cost me more to do it myself than most of you guys could have done it yourselves for, I at least accomplished it for less than the price of having it towed to a shop.. QUOTE]

Congradulations ..........! ccasion14:
Sounds like you came out ahead for $71.00 ....... education isn't cheap these days.

 

[Edison]

Yeah, if the dang hard line from pump to filter had come off like it should have, it'd been a cool $30 job. I even went out twice during the week and blasted everything with rust buster so it'd be ready by Saturday and it still rusted. I had found one online prefabbed but you had to buy it in a kit with the hard line from filter to carb for $32 + shipping and I didn't have have time to wait.

I gave it a little bit of an Ether spray into the carb to get it to turn over a few by itself to help generate vacuum from the tank without having to crank and crank it over with the key since it had sat for almost two months so I'm sure any fuel in the carb had long evaporated out.