Hello,
I am Mike a new member with the K-Car club and I am curious on the expertise of the group on how to remove a Mechanical fuel pump on a Mitsubishi 2.6 Engine. It is a 1985 Dodge 600 Es with a two barrel carburator.
I have attempted to remove the Mechanical fuel pump and it was hung up on something. I had two remove the bolts to the carb and shift the carb in order to have room to remove the fuel pump. However it moved about two inches and it was stuck. I reassembled everything so that I can run the car every coulple of weeks (the mechanicalfuel pump has a small spray of gas coming out of it.) Later on I have read that the engine needs to be in TDC dont know if this would make a difference. I did not remove the valve cover and have read that it would help to have the valve cover removed. However the weather cooled off and I have not gotten back to doing it. I figured i would wait till it would get a little warmer before I would try it.
The Dodge was sold to me by a friends aunt it has 64,000 miles in change I brought it home in November of 2013 and I am slowly getting things cleaned up. Once I got the car home I have noticed a strong fuel smell and noticed fuel was coming out around the fuel pump. Optomistically, I replaced the hoses around this creative fuel hose maze and that did not help. I have added tank stabilizer for the winter. When starting the vehicle It will take a few tries to keep it going the only thing I could figure is the fuel pump is not keeping equal pressure on the fuel so the car will die. Eventaully it will stay running.
Would appreciate some help.
Mike