• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Broken fuel pump fittings, current solution?

Redrockmania said:
I have experimented with making various replacement elbows for the fuel lines going into the fuel pump metal housing. I have the advantage of having a home lathe and milling machine. The original plastic connector elbows are too weak and vulnerable and prone to break if you try to remove them. I have machining replacements from solid brass rod in 2 parts. First I cut to length two pieces of rod (I used 15mm diameter and 10mm diameter). I then copy the dimensions of the original plastic elbows. The advantage of using brass is strength, ease of machining and the capacity to solder together the right angle connection of the two pieces of machined brass making a strong and leak proof join You will see a raised metal rim or flange on the base of the fuel pump housing where the elbows are pushed in. As protection against the elbows working loose or falling out I drill a small hole into the side of the flange and part way into the body of the brass elbow in situ, then I cut a thread with a tap into both drill holes and then fit a stainless steel grub screw. This keeps them stable and secure. Hope this helps.
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hey Red-
got any pictures? especially of the process of building the outlet... might help.
thanks.
 
Just wanted to share my findings regarding possible replacements of the red elbow connector;
Apparently the part is produced by a company called "John Guest" and is used on several vehicles like the Aprilia Pegaso (part no. AP8104192 ) and the Moto Guzzi V11 (part no. FUA30000) as already mentioned earlier on this forum. But by far the most useful information I found is that it is available as a Ford spare part under part no. 1330328 or engineering no. 98BF-9L276-AA
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No disrespect to the zipty racing CNC version, but the Ford version is much cheaper, identical to OEM and most importantly, the easiest to source for all the Cafe members around the world...
 
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