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Originally Posted by BigGreenThing
Thanks loki. That's been a tremendous help. Also saved me huge amount of time looking for something that doesn't exist. It seems the only fuse for the mechanical pump is the ceramic one in front passenger footwell.
Leads will be checked. Along with distributor and motor ARM when I've a chance.
Another question or two: do you know if the mechanical pumps are servicable? And, could retarding the idle contribute to reasonable mph (i did drive like a very old man!) and poor acceleration? I suspect previous owner slowed idle and I DARE NOT mess with the Solex CISAC carb for reasons described on this site and others. This retardation of idle cannot have been done to limit pinking as the engine is set for unleaded.
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the mechanical ones tend to work or not ,a replacement is cheap enough but retain the gasket ,strangely my new pump had a thin gasket in the box but the old pump had a very thick gasket fitted which i presume adjusted the pump to the cam that operated it ,i reused the old one with silicone to reseal it just in case ,perhaps there was no need to? ,even if theres nothing wrong with the old pump you could throw it in the floor cubby just incase the new one died in x years time