> > Hmmm.... > > Maybe it's coincidental, but I just installed a new fuel pump over the > weekend! I thought the old pump was failing because after the warm > engine sat for 5 minutes or so, starting it again was very hard. The > new pump didn't take care of this problem :( Reaching back into the nether regions, I seem to remember having the same trouble after replacing the fuel pump on my '69 bug. I was getting 8 mpg and brown froth out of the dipstick. Check that the spacer (plastic thing) and gaskets are on, and that the screws are tight, I guess. Reading up on fuel pumps couldn't hurt either...... G'luck -- Todd R. Schroeder | Without vision, a people perish. todds@sunnet.chotel.com | Proverbs XXIX:18 '71 Campmobile
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