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Thanks! Have never done anything electrical with the truck, save batteries stuff. I shall check that first thing tamale.
It's tamale. ~28v when hot in the plug is used with a ground to the batteries. Time to see if I can follow the ground. Might be expeditious to simply clip the ground...
Pulled the in-tank again; tank bottom is clean and relatively shiny; whitish crud starts about 6" up the sides. Got the Facet pump primed and pumping from a can of fuel and was able to bleed through the secondary filters; had significant return flow to the tank. Re-connected it to the in-tank...
Sarge,
I have been thinking about that, but I certainly would like to be able to figure out why I am not seeing 24 volts in the plug for the in-tank p;ump. I'm thinking about pressuring up the tank, but am uncertain as to how much pressure it will sustain. Hate to pop a leak!
I have yet to try the Facet pump with filled intake tubing. The thought of having to go into the hydraulic head is less than comforting, as my expertise is less than robust, shall we say, and my current physical setup is less than ideal for working under the hood. I'd really like to resolve...
I found external pump info in another thread and followed it up, but it seems better to stay in this thread since I started it. The following is a summary of where I am to date.
The Facet 41050 pump I hooked up has 3/8 npt fittings and it was easy to find compression fittings that enabled me...
The '73 M35A2C has been distressingly idle the last few years...many more hours at rest than driving. I typically fire it up and run it for an hour or two on a weekly to bi-weekly basis. Occasional it gets to 3-4 weeks. Replaced the batteries w/in the last two years and have been running it...
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