Fumed Out

Phew, that probably wasn’t the greatest of ideas. Finished fuel pump replacement at 1:30 this morning. The hand pumpy siphon thing I had bought a long time ago’s pumpy part disentgrated after a few pumps and wrapping it up in duct tape only lasted a few more, so I was left with a tank with lots of gas still in it. I disconnected a line and let it drain from that but it was a pretty slow trickle. Eventually undid the fill and lowered the tank enough to pour gas out that way. Gas and fumes floating all around the garage. Pump was an OEM replacement made in USA Carter. The pump itself looked fine, but the little additional provided bits, while quality looked fine, didn’t fit! A o-ring that I ended up not using at all, a retaining spring washer clip thing that was too big to retain, stainless hose clamps of common design where the screw part is so large that it could potentially short on the power wire. Dissapointing, but there was no turning back at this point, I reused old parts and eventually got it back together. Didn’t start car, still need to put back some parts, and decided to let fumes go away. Verdict hopefully tonight!