MOTHER of PEARL !

10/27 Well, I stayed out of the garage yesterday and attended to other chores, but today it was back at the fuel pump. Had to take some guards off and used a 1/4 inch drive socket set to get the nuts off. Tite place. Anyway got it off and washed up the outside. Took the glass sediment bowl off and found a tar like liquid inside. The gasket for the bowl broke so knew I would have to get or make another. Was pumping the shaft arm and heard a pop. Thought I might have blown the diaphragm so took that apart. More rusty goo. The diaphragm looked like it may have some cracks and will need replacing eventually. Decided to go to town and see if Farm King had a gasket or/and a carb kit. No luck there. was going to go to Auto-Zone and saw Huffman's coming up so though, hummm, I wonder. Guess what. They had the gasket but no fuel pump or carb kit. Went on home and put the fuel pump back together. I thought I might as well try it cause I can't get a kit today anyway. Turned the gas shut off valve on the tank back open and put the fuel line to the carb in a plastic container to see if the pump was pumping. Hit the starter button and no fuel in the sediment bowl. Put some gas in the carb and hit the start button again. Ran for a few seconds and checked the bowl again. Looked like it was half full, MOTHER OF PEARL, could this be happening? Put more gas in carb. Ran another 5 seconds and bowl was full now. More gas in carb. This time gas shot into the plastic container. WAHOO, Removed the container and hooked the fuel line up to the carb. Grabbed the gas linkage and hit the start button. HAH, that bugger fired up and started running. It ran as long as I slowly fed the gas with the linkage. It ran for about 3 or 4 minutes when I realizes the garage door was shut and I thought I better shut it off and open the door so this won't be my last time doing this. I could not have been happier. Went to get Nancy (for proof) and she came out and I did it again. This time I slowed the feed down and guess what? It idled. Again MOTHER OF PEARL. Nancy snapped a couple of pictures as I was grinning. I shut it off and she said "is it always going to be that lowd?" I told her there was no exhaust system on it yet. I have lot of tweaking to do yet and I also think the radiator has a leak at the top but the Phoenix is starting to rise out of the ashes. Yes I have grease on my face and yes I have grease on my forearms and hands and fingernails, but who gives a big rats ass.

I'm Happy.

Coot