11th October 2010 - Fuel Pump & Filter

A rare evening visit to the garage trying to make the most of the daylight and relative warmth before the winter.  Tonight the target was the fuel pump and filter abandoned previously due to mounting point uncertainty.  Following yet more advice from Westfield, we used rivserts again - two under the right-hand driveshaft for the filter, two more just to the right of the diff stabiliser bracket for the pump.  Both items had been prepared previously, including changing the connectors on the wiring loom, so mounting them was quite straightforward, if a little time consuming due to the cheapo bent-alumminium brackets.  These required the rivserts to be done one at a time to ensure they were in the right place. 

Once on, the fuel pipes from the filter  to the under-car fuel line, from the filter to the pump and from the pump to the tank were addded:

Fuel pump & filter in place (pipes and cables still to be covered)

When we reviewed the job upon completion, we think the fuel pump bracket should be the other way around, placing the pump under the tank.  This would make it a bit more vulnerable, but the pipe runs would be straighter.  One to think about for next time.