Re: KPack's 1954 Panama

Posted by TxGoat On 2023/5/17 8:49:07

I've had a fuel pump that made a sort of hooting sound as it worked. It worked OK, so I didn't worry about it. A leaky fuel pump valve might make a noise. I'd be more concerned about any kind of knocking oe clicking sound coming from the pump.

I would think the glass bowl would stay full on a car that was running, but that does not seem to be the case. If the car shows no sign of fuel starvation, I'd ignore it.

Buicks in the 1950s came with a glass bowl filter mounted up near the carburetor. These filters had a typical fuel inlet and outlet, and a third outlet at the top of the filter casting that had a line running back to the fuel tank connected to it. The purpose of the
arrangement was to allow bubbles to escape, as well as limiting fuel line pressure at the carburetor and also keeping the fuel pump and lines cooler by circulating gasoline continuously back to the gas tank. You might look online for an image of a 1959 Buick fuel filter. The only difficulty with putting
a similar filter on a Packard would be the lack of a return line tap on the gas tank. If you don't mind modifying the tank, a return line could be T'd off the fuel line near the carburetor. It would need a restrictor to limit flow rate to assure that fuel reached the carburetor.

But if the car runs fine as-is, I'd leave it be.