>My fuel pump is mounted to the cross member directly under the floor, which
>puts the pump nearly as high as the top of the fuel tank.

Yikes!! Your pump is too high in relation to your fuel tank. You want it
closer to the bottom of the tank. Electric pumps like to push fuel, not suck
it. You are asking for problems where it is.

Re-mount your pump on the inside of your right frame rail, just forward of the
rear axle (where it straightens), with the fuel filter downstream.


Robert Bills
KG6LMV
Orange County CA

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"Robert Bills" <rdbillsjr@aol.comxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >My fuel pump is mounted to the cross member directly under the floor,
which
> >puts the pump nearly as high as the top of the fuel tank.
>
> Yikes!! Your pump is too high in relation to your fuel tank. You want it
> closer to the bottom of the tank. Electric pumps like to push fuel, not
suck
> it. You are asking for problems where it is.
>

It has been there for 4 years, and counting. I did replace the pump
recently, then found I was really out of gas. Mrs. CRWLR will be very
annoyed to learn that I paid over a hundred bucks to fill the tank, so keep
this hidden from her.

I mounted the pump where the distructions said to put it, I think.

I will have to look at your location, but I don't think I can put the pump
inside the frame rail, and any lower than I already have it, and I will tear
the damn thing off. I also have issues with the right side frame rail
because that is where the hot exhaust system is.

My system is such that I draw fuel through the filter, then pump clean gas
up to the motor. Dirt and chunks that build up in the gas tank are stopped
by the filter, assuming it actually works.



> Re-mount your pump on the inside of your right frame rail, just forward of
the
> rear axle (where it straightens), with the fuel filter downstream.
>
>
> Robert Bills
> KG6LMV
> Orange County CA
>
> http://www.outdoorwire.com/4x4/jeep/...p-l/billsr.htm
> http://www.RobertBills.com