Fuel Issue / 58 Packard

Posted by Rollerball On 2023/11/20 14:19:38

Hello All!

Newbie here dealing with a pesky problem with a fuel pump. Issue started after shortly bringing the car home.

Car sitting on a slight sloped driveway would not pull fuel up to the carburetor. The mechanical fuel pump marked ( 4227 62) was on the car. Replaced with another mechanical fuel pump would still not pull fuel.

The only way to car to start was to bottle feed down carb. Once started could idle in driveway for over in hour . Go to takeoff and the car would need fuel . Eventually it would run for about 30 mins then stall and stop pumping fuel. Decided to purchase an electric I fuel pump and mounted as close to the tank as possible . Got about 20 miles out of pump and it would pull any fuel up to carburetor .

After this issue dropped the tank and cleaned it not much debris in tank and the pickup tube was clean. With the hose attached to steel fuel line can blow air through to the tank. Can also blow air from one end of the line to the other . Replaced the rubber hoses. The only thing left would be the steel lines . Is it possible that my steel lines could bad? The only way I can get the new pump to pull fuel is to run a long rubber fuel hose from fuel tank directly up to the carburetor .

I'm very new here asking to learn!

Thanks!