G'Day Guys,
This is my first post, and I am placing it for a friend who recently bought a 1963 lark cruiser with a 259 V8 in it running the original WW Stromberg two-barrel carburettor. The previous owner had converted the car to run almost exclusively on LP gas (bottled liquid petroleum) and rarely used the carburettor and fuel pump system. It has had the mechanical fuel pump replaced with an electric unit and is prone to flooding "VERY" badly at idle and low revs. A replacement needle and seat improved it slightly but still flooding, just not as badly, so I put a vacuum/pressure gauge on it to see what the pump was delivering! The gauge didn't read high enough to measure it accurately, it sent the needle around until it hit the pin and stopped, that was at 7 PSI. The workshop manual says it should be 3.5 to 5 PSI, so it could be way over this, I think the electric pump is overloading the needle and seat and as a result flooding the carby. The owner would like to replace the electric pump with a mechanical unit, and we have been doing some looking online and there seems to be a lot of views about the suitability of some of the aftermarket pumps available. Some are reputed to be useless rubbish, and others are designed for different engines and not a good fit on a Stude engine, so we are asking advice if you have any recommendations for an acceptable replacement that is reasonably available. We are in Western Australia and do not have access to some of the retail outlets you may be familiar with, but a good percentage now deal online with overseas customers so we should be able to access at least "some" of the US parts sources.
Anyway, now that I have asked my first question, a bit about "me"!
I am a recently retired farmer who has moved 200 miles from the family farm down to a coastal town. I bought my first Studebaker, an ermine white 289ci GT Hawk back in the 1980s and drove it as a daily driver for several years but as it had rust issues, I took it off the road and attended to those. While I was working on that car, I bought a second GT Hawk and continued to use that as a daily driver, but eventually put it in storage also. As the old story goes, "life got in the way" and neither of these cars have been on the road in quite a few years! As I have now retired, I am setting myself up with a new shed to bring one of these down here and complete the restoration I started so long ago.
I have no doubt I will be asking a few questions of you over the next little while, and from what I can see there are a lot of very knowledgeable contributors to this forum, so I hope to make your acquaintance over time.
Thanks blokes,
Graham,
from Bunbury, Western Australia.
This is my first post, and I am placing it for a friend who recently bought a 1963 lark cruiser with a 259 V8 in it running the original WW Stromberg two-barrel carburettor. The previous owner had converted the car to run almost exclusively on LP gas (bottled liquid petroleum) and rarely used the carburettor and fuel pump system. It has had the mechanical fuel pump replaced with an electric unit and is prone to flooding "VERY" badly at idle and low revs. A replacement needle and seat improved it slightly but still flooding, just not as badly, so I put a vacuum/pressure gauge on it to see what the pump was delivering! The gauge didn't read high enough to measure it accurately, it sent the needle around until it hit the pin and stopped, that was at 7 PSI. The workshop manual says it should be 3.5 to 5 PSI, so it could be way over this, I think the electric pump is overloading the needle and seat and as a result flooding the carby. The owner would like to replace the electric pump with a mechanical unit, and we have been doing some looking online and there seems to be a lot of views about the suitability of some of the aftermarket pumps available. Some are reputed to be useless rubbish, and others are designed for different engines and not a good fit on a Stude engine, so we are asking advice if you have any recommendations for an acceptable replacement that is reasonably available. We are in Western Australia and do not have access to some of the retail outlets you may be familiar with, but a good percentage now deal online with overseas customers so we should be able to access at least "some" of the US parts sources.
Anyway, now that I have asked my first question, a bit about "me"!
I am a recently retired farmer who has moved 200 miles from the family farm down to a coastal town. I bought my first Studebaker, an ermine white 289ci GT Hawk back in the 1980s and drove it as a daily driver for several years but as it had rust issues, I took it off the road and attended to those. While I was working on that car, I bought a second GT Hawk and continued to use that as a daily driver, but eventually put it in storage also. As the old story goes, "life got in the way" and neither of these cars have been on the road in quite a few years! As I have now retired, I am setting myself up with a new shed to bring one of these down here and complete the restoration I started so long ago.
I have no doubt I will be asking a few questions of you over the next little while, and from what I can see there are a lot of very knowledgeable contributors to this forum, so I hope to make your acquaintance over time.
Thanks blokes,
Graham,
from Bunbury, Western Australia.
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