{"id":12836,"date":"2017-03-24T16:48:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12836"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:54:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T16:54:06","slug":"hooray-bravo-pip-pip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/hooray-bravo-pip-pip\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray! Bravo! Pip Pip!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The replacement fuel pump arrived today from China. Things always take ages to be delivered from there but this one seems to have taken longer than most because other items that I’ve ordered since have arrived days ago. But anyhow, it’s here now so I took the opportunity to install it immediately in my fuel rig.<\/p>\n

After a dull but dry morning, the weather decided to start raining at exactly that moment so I had to do the work in my kitchen, finishing off with testing the system out in the dry in my wood store. Here are some shots that I took earlier – rather dark because of the conditions in which I was working.<\/p>\n

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Those in the know will recognise the pump as a Bosch knock-off. I’m pleased to say that it worked fine from the outset with no leaks – this time I just had to seal the inlet and outlet connections of the in-line filter with some PTFE tape – and the rate of delivery of the system then seemed to be quite good.<\/p>\n

I won’t know for sure, however, until I can connect the rig to my car battery, which is how I’ve always intended to use it, because the battery that I was using today is very old and is just kept on trickle charge in my workshop in case it’s needed for any kind of emergency.<\/p>\n

A ‘plus’ factor is that the pump doesn’t need to be primed, which means that I’ll be able to remove the annoying primer bulb that I included in the rig’s design.<\/p>\n

I’ve now been fully recompensed for the original pump that was not only useless but dangerous and maybe the US seller will now get the message and stop selling it. I know from the feedback that I’ve read on the internet that the pump in question has been sold for several years with the same problems over the whole of that time.<\/p>\n

I shall be interested to see how the new pump performs when I actually try topping up 77ASY’s tanks with it. If it performs as I expect and is maybe still a bit on the slow side, on today’s showing I might even consider buying a second one and connecting them in parallel. It didn’t cost a lot and two working together may end up being exactly what I was aiming for with my new rig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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