Fuel Fluke

cudajim said

For what it's worth, I had a fuel problem in my 67 ragtop Cuda which I bought after it had been sitting for years. I put in a new engine, fired it up and it ran for a day or so then stopped. The mechanical fuel pump quit pumping even thought it was brand new. I ordered another one, put it on and it lasted about another day or two. Finally I pulled the sending unit which I should have done from the start. The sock on the end was not even there and there was so much crap in the tank it was just sucking into the pump. Needless to say, I dropped the tank, dumped it, cleaned it and replaced the pickup tube/sending unit, sock etc. All is ok now that I have clean fuel. DUH!

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Thanks for replying.

I really needed to replace the tank because it had some bad rust on the outside of the tank. It is located on the top of the tank. Somewhere in the cars life water was settling on top of the tank and rusting it out. I had one little pin hole that went all the way through. I dabbed a little urethane caulking on it and called it good. The inside of the tank wasn't in that bad of condition so I reused it. I should have replaced it! I know there is some trash in the old tank that is on the car now. I blew into the fuel line and I heard debris of some sort move across the bottom of the tank.
So instead of dropping the old tank and reusing it again I decided yesterday to go all new.