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So as discussed a bit in an unrelated thread my car had been having fuel starvation issues that I had assumed was the foam deteriorating from ethanol laden pump gas in my fuel cell
Magnus and I finally had the chance to tackle the issue today and it turns out it wasn't the foam after all. Pulled the filter out and there were a few particles of foam stuck in it, but nothing to cause the fuel starvation. So at this point we took out some of the foam in the tank and discovered that the fuel pick up hose that runs across the bottom of the tank had broken off (which explains why I was getting more starvation issues when making right turns).
It was also a good thing this happened because we discovered that many of the rivets holding my floor up had broken and I was in real danger of falling through the car :eek:
And no, I don't weigh that much. There was some mods made earlier in the cars life for a support bracket that holds the high capacity fuel pump up under the driveshaft and some of the rivets had been removed for that bracket, which seems to have led to the others breaking little by little over time. I don't know how I had not noticed this before, especially since I had the seats out a few months ago to install new belts :banghead:
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Magnus and I finally had the chance to tackle the issue today and it turns out it wasn't the foam after all. Pulled the filter out and there were a few particles of foam stuck in it, but nothing to cause the fuel starvation. So at this point we took out some of the foam in the tank and discovered that the fuel pick up hose that runs across the bottom of the tank had broken off (which explains why I was getting more starvation issues when making right turns).
It was also a good thing this happened because we discovered that many of the rivets holding my floor up had broken and I was in real danger of falling through the car :eek:
And no, I don't weigh that much. There was some mods made earlier in the cars life for a support bracket that holds the high capacity fuel pump up under the driveshaft and some of the rivets had been removed for that bracket, which seems to have led to the others breaking little by little over time. I don't know how I had not noticed this before, especially since I had the seats out a few months ago to install new belts :banghead:
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