Barry Grant electric fuel pump

[kgeeeee]

I have 2/25 gal. tanks with a switching unit mounted on the transom. The main fuel line from the unit goes into the "in" on the fuel pump. This pump sits above the fuel tank so I put a check valve in between the "in" on the pump and the main line comming from the switching unit.
I keep losing the prime. Does the check valve have to go on the other side of the pump to work or should I say hold the prime? Today cutting across the lake I lost the prime and had to be towed back. Is it possible I might have a bad check valve? It is brand new.

[Hotcrusader76]

kgeeeee:
I have 2/25 gal. tanks with a switching unit mounted on the transom. The main fuel line from the unit goes into the "in" on the fuel pump. This pump sits above the fuel tank so I put a check valve in between the "in" on the pump and the main line comming from the switching unit.
I keep losing the prime. Does the check valve have to go on the other side of the pump to work or should I say hold the prime? Today cutting across the lake I lost the prime and had to be towed back. Is it possible I might have a bad check valve? It is brand new.Electric pumps like to push fuel, not pull it.
Is there a way to get that pump below decks? I mean lowest you can possiable in the hull?

[502procharger]

ty, do you ever get away from work, or your computer? hope you are having a good weekend.

[Hotcrusader76]

502procharger:
ty, do you ever get away from work, or your computer? hope you are having a good weekend.Ty's life in a nutshell these last three days:
Girlfriend is in Pheonix with Grandma visiting-
Gathering parts for the blown head gasket on the diesel
Busted valve spring in boat (On hold because of truck)
Doing Chemistry homework and winging the Calculus problems the same.
Updateing website---filling the coffee pot every hour...or is that emptying it...LOL....and running to ALbertos (taco shop) every 5 hours.
All of this for what?????? Because I like who I am and what I do...LOL ...What BS that is!
Truth is...I am getting through school at night, keeping customers happy (that's easy), keeping girlfriend at bay (2 years now and she's still around, but the computer is on its way out), and the truck is going to be my next book, "The perfect Plan" with many sequells.
Hhaahaa....so now you got it! The scoop on me! So this is my excuse from bailing out on the river and Dove hunting I was suppose to do while I was in McIntyre....
My day will come when this all pays off...meanwhile...back to the calculator...

[565edge]

kgeeeee:
I have 2/25 gal. tanks with a switching unit mounted on the transom. The main fuel line from the unit goes into the "in" on the fuel pump. This pump sits above the fuel tank so I put a check valve in between the "in" on the pump and the main line comming from the switching unit.
I keep losing the prime. Does the check valve have to go on the other side of the pump to work or should I say hold the prime? Today cutting across the lake I lost the prime and had to be towed back. Is it possible I might have a bad check valve? It is brand new.With my fuel system i had to add vents in each tank,my caps were vented but i still needed more vent,now it stays primed,i run the big product engineering pump(similiar to magna flow)if you have the big pump that might be your problem,why do you run a check valve?

[78Eliminator]

kgeeeee:
I have 2/25 gal. tanks with a switching unit mounted on the transom. The main fuel line from the unit goes into the "in" on the fuel pump. This pump sits above the fuel tank so I put a check valve in between the "in" on the pump and the main line comming from the switching unit.
I keep losing the prime. Does the check valve have to go on the other side of the pump to work or should I say hold the prime? Today cutting across the lake I lost the prime and had to be towed back. Is it possible I might have a bad check valve? It is brand new.BG will tell you that you HAVE TO have the pump below the pickup in the fuel cell or at least at the same level. I still have mine higher and I get the same priming problem, especially if my tanks are low. I would try to re-mount it lower....

[Hotcrusader76]

78Eliminator:
kgeeeee:
I have 2/25 gal. tanks with a switching unit mounted on the transom. The main fuel line from the unit goes into the "in" on the fuel pump. This pump sits above the fuel tank so I put a check valve in between the "in" on the pump and the main line comming from the switching unit.
I keep losing the prime. Does the check valve have to go on the other side of the pump to work or should I say hold the prime? Today cutting across the lake I lost the prime and had to be towed back. Is it possible I might have a bad check valve? It is brand new.BG will tell you that you HAVE TO have the pump below the pickup in the fuel cell or at least at the same level. I still have mine higher and I get the same priming problem, especially if my tanks are low. I would try to re-mount it lower....and how did we do this weekend....

[78Eliminator]

Hotcrusader76:
and how did we do this weekend....Good. I am running a little too fat though. I have rich spark plug readings and it doesn't like to start when it's hot......still. You have to turn it over for a long time (and don't touch the gas peddle) and eventually it will start kicking to life. It floods REAL easy.
It was also pissing a little oil out the distributor. Not sure why it was doing that. The dipstick showed that the oil level was a little high but I'm not sure it would cause it to piss it out the distributor......

[Jordy]

Glad to hear it ran. It is a step in the right direction anyhow... now just a little fine tune and you should be golden.
Jordy

[78Eliminator]

jordanpaulk:
Glad to hear it ran. It is a step in the right direction anyhow... now just a little fine tune and you should be golden.
Jordy JP, you have no idea how happy I am to have a running boat. I was in heaven sitting on the sandbar in my own ride.....