[alberg30] Re: Electric Fuel Pump conversion, etc.

[Dan Sternglass]

From: Dan Sternglass <dans at stmktg.com>

Robert E Johns wrote:
> 
> From: Robert E Johns <bobjns at nais.com>
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Can anyone give me some recomendations on where to get an electric fuel
> pump conversion for my Atomic 4? I see that Indigo Electronics has one for
> $150. Any other suggestions?

I did the conversion 2 years ago on my 1966 Atomic-4. A local boat shop
obtained the pump, I think I paid close to $150, I remember being
somewhat outraged by the price at the time. It came with a bracket,
which worked well, and with a number of pre-bent brass plumbing pieces
that were mostly worthless. I ended up procuring some brass gas-line
fittings and making the curved connections with double clamped
high-pressure gas line tubing. Also, the pump came with an oil pressure
sensor intended to cut off the fuel pump if oil pressure went to "zero,"
but my engine lacks the threaded plug where it was supposed to go, so I
never used it.

Seaprately, a random note: Around that time, I noticed that a fitting in
the port-side pipe running from cockpit drain to the thru-hull was badly
corroded -- it was the "tee" from the cooler drain. After asking a lot
of people where to obtain suitable (and reasobaly priced) replacement
material for that pipe (it had to withstand the engine compartment
temperature), someone pointed out to me that flexible marine exhaust
hose would work (though it's not quite like the original more ridgid)
material, and that's what I replaced it with. Instead of the "tee," the
cooler drain now has its own hose into the bilge.

I'd suggest looking at that fitting, it's close to the water line in a
large pipe connected to a thru-hull!

--Dan Sternglass
Watcher of the Skies, #201, Ithaca, NY

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