Reply To: Electric Fuel Pump

Bernie, thanks very much for this information.  On my car the mechanical pump is not used at all.  The fuel line goes into a fuel filter and then into the pump.  The line then exits the pump straight to the carb.  On a drive recently the car suddenly lost power and stopped as if it was starved of fuel.  I couldn’t get the car started (luckily it wasn’t too long of a push back to the house).  A few days later I disconnected the hose from the carb, fired up the pump to make sure it was pushing fuel, then connected line back….and the car started up.  Very strange…perhaps an air bubble in the line?  Not sure.  Do you happen to know at what PSI the pump should be operating?