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Harvey LIVES!

July 22, 2010
Although we have not been able to go in Harvey like we would have wanted, I have kept him up and ready by cranking him every other week or so. He is actually in great shape for his age, and I have only had to do one major fix: the fuel pump on the sending unit in the gas tank. I fixed that by purchasing a new pump and attatching it to the old sending unit.
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Suddenly I couldn’t get Harvey to start. All symptoms led to another fuel-pump problem, but I hated to drop the tank again. After trying everything else, I dropped the tank and pulled out the fuel sending unit. Sure enough, there was the problem: the hose going from the fuel pump to the fuel line had disentegrated from being submerged in gasoline (see above). I guess it is designed to have fuel flow through it, but not actually be IN fuel.

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I lucked up and found an exact retrofit for the whole sending unit. I had been looking for awhile, but only found fuel sending units that fit the Econoline Van, not an RV based on an Econoline van. I saw a post on a forum about this specific model, and sure enough it was an exact match! I installed it, and Harvey started up without any problems. I hope I get 20 or 30 years out of it, I don’t want to drop that tank again.

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