How To Install Fuel Pump Lock Ring

Removal of this clip will probably take upwardly most of your time and be the blight of your existence. At that place are two teeth on both sides of the prune that must be dislocated in order to remove the vent line.

TIP: I recommend buying a spare 1 and having it on mitt in case you get frustrated and determine to just break information technology in social club to get it off.

In order become this prune out you must push on both exposed sides of the clip a scrap at a time. You lot cannot only button one side out and and then the other as it will lock in the teeth on the opposite side. Both sides of the clip must move together every bit much every bit possible.

Once you have the vent line discrete, yous tin disconnect the fuel pump and fuel level clips on the underside of the saucepan cap.

Hopefully you accept a tank that is near empty. Cascade as much of the fuel in your fuel bucket dorsum into the tank earlier you try to remove the fuel bucket.

To remove the bucket, pull up on the bucket until yous experience resistance, then stone the bucket towards the rider side door to become the fuel level float out with the bucket.

Set fuel pump associates in your sometime bucket (homer bucket).

Stride iv: Dual Fuel Pump Install

Your new setup (if yous decided to copy my setup) is quite a bit larger than the original pump. This part is a lilliputian tricky simply don�t let it get the best of you, have your fourth dimension on this part and things will go smoothly.

First, connect all of your wiring every bit shown previously, if you are using a similar set as described earlier. Make sure your fuel pump and fuel level connections are connected and tight. You do not want to have the need to dig back into the tank again to fix something.

Side by side, fold your fuel pickup pads in one-half in order to be able to get them into the tank. Do not fold them under but fold them up and then that once in the tank the pads are able to lay out to their full length. Now, plow the associates on its side to put the fuel level bladder into the tank commencement. So turn the tank upright and ease the folded pickup pads into the tank. The assembly should drop correct in later doing this.

TIP: Brand sure that your fuel level bladder moves freely and is non stuck underneath the fuel pick upwardly pad or the edge of the saucepan once the fuel pump assembly has been lowered into the tank.

[Below: The top of the bucket is non assembled in order to accept clear pictures]

Adjacent, you will need to modify your fuel feed line.

Remove the finish slice on the fuel feed line carefully. Y'all volition demand to remove the clamp and heat the tubing a little in guild get the end piece out.

Do NOT USE AN OPEN FLAME TO Estrus THE Cease Piece!!

Once you lot have removed the end piece, push the hose from your fuel pumps into the fuel feed line. Use a clamp to secure the lines together.

Re-attach your vent lines and ensure that all your connections are tight.
Next, button the top of the bucket downwardly onto the tank. Make sure the top of the fuel bucket has a lip that aligns with the summit of the tank. Put the pinnacle fuel pump ring on while property the top of the bucket down. Turn the band clockwise past mitt until you feel the screws catch. Continue turning the ring until y'all experience plenty resistance to demand the lock ring tool to turn the band enough to get it dorsum to its original position.

Notation that there are teeth missing on the tiptop lock ring. The big vent line should center in between the missing teeth. This is your indication that you accept tightened the lock ring downwardly enough.

The fuel pump install is now complete. Lets work on the Hobbs switch before nosotros put the rear seat back in.

Step 5: Hobbs switch install

If you are using a pre-assembled harness as shown above this will depict exactly what y'all will need to install information technology.

As you can meet, one cease will need to connect to the fuel pump, the other end will need to be connected to the battery and a ground, while the last cease of the harness will demand to be continued to a positive heave source.

Before we become started, I need to give credit to jyamona@motiv from which I totally stole the idea to hook up the hobbs switch in the trunk.

Lets layout the harness in the body so that you lot can get a better idea of where things volition end up.

Remove the trunk flooring in your auto and layout the harness.

Pull the stop of the harness going to the fuel pump underneath the trunk surround and under the rear seat back.

Put a hole in rubber part of the summit of the fuel tank cover.

And then fish the end of your hobbs switch harness through the hole y'all have fabricated in the safety grommet.

Connect the harness to the fuel pump.

You lot are now set to re-install your rear seat bottom cushion.

Adjacent, remove the accompaniment compartment on the drivers side of the trunk. Fish the hobbs switch and harness under the trunk flooring.

The exhaust flapper solenoid is accessible through the access panel on the drivers side. Unplug the solenoid and remove the hose that connects to the bottom (non the side hose, this connects to the flapper in the frazzle arrangement)

Connect the hose to the hobbs switch. The hose should be accessible through the hole where the accompaniment compartment was located that was removed earlier.

Now, you lot tin can put the accessory compartment dorsum into identify as we are washed her.

Next lets movement to the other side where the bombardment is located so that we tin can connect power to the harness.

Remove the access panel for the bombardment on the passenger side.

Connect the negative cable to the bolt shown and the positive cable fits neatly in the area shown on the battery last.

Constrict the relay and fuse in behind the battery. Put the battery admission panel dorsum into place.

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