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I have an old copy of updates and it included the Stude-published service bulletins. I believe it was originally published by Roscoe.

I have included pics of the electric fuel pump I installed to overcome the evaporation of fuel from the carbs.
The screw that is shown is the clamp screw that came with the pump. It is for the clamp. I just made it do double duty. You can't see the pump because it is behind the piece of sheetmetal that I wrapped around the frame. I mounted the pressure reg at the top of the rear kickup because of the room available. I used a short fitting at the tank with a bubble on the end to allow a rubber hose and clamp to replace the fuel line to the pump and another hose to mate to a short metal fuel line that runs up to the pressure regulator. From there it is all metal line. The pump sits nicely inside the frame just about even with the front of the tank.

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Randy,

Thanks for the pictures. That helps!

I was supposed to take the front seat out and take both front and rear seats to the trim shop. The Carib fired up OK, but I couldn't shift gears?? I had all the tranny stuff off the fender when I replaced it and the wiring to put it on the new? fender is pretty simple. I started searching for a misplaced wire or an accidental short. I found nothing except the circuit breaker was very warm and clicked at a steady pace?? I checked all the wiring and could find nothing wrong. When I disconnected the push-button unit under the dash, the circuit breaker quit pulsing?? After several false leads I finally narrowed it down to the PB six-connection relay. I removed it and pried the cover off but could see no immediate problem. The contacts did look burnt so I took the relay home and cleaned up the contacts with a point file. I also increased the air gap in the one set of contacts to agree with the other set which had a wider air gap. They were also slightly out of alignment which I corrected. I reinstalled the relay without the PB control(buttons) hooked up. Manually depressing each contact set caused the PB motor to run in both directions. I reconnected the PB multi wire plug and when I reconnected the battery the motor ran to the point where the PB unit was set. The buttons work fine now. I believe one pair of the relay contacts were burnt together and the relay was trying to run the motor in two directions at once. I can visualize no other possibility. I can pull the car out tomorrow and remove the front seat and then off to the trim shop to mortgage$$ my home.
I have never heard of this relay failing like that - Mr PB, do you have any opinion on this? I've been driving these PB-equipped cars a long time and never ran into this.

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Interesting. Haven't had problems with that one (yet) but did have the auto park relay fail last year --also a first-- with a piece of something apparently from time manufactured lodged so the contacts couldn't transfer. Symptom was as soon as any button pressed to move, shift relay and motor buzzed & chattered since it was also trying to move between two positions in opposite directions.

Howard, I have experienced PARK relay failure also. That relay doesn't appear to be as substantial as the other relays on the car. I have mine bypassed and fused as per description on the PAC forum. I had two unfavorable experiences with automatic park and would encourage owners to bypass that particular feature. One experience gave me a knot on my forehead that lasted almost a week.

SMS finally sent the Boucle' cloth my interior guy ordered back in August. He can now order the vinyl and leather and go to work. My Caribbean has trim code 96 which is shown below. The cloth is pronounced Boo clay, but is spelled Boucle'. That is French for Bur lap.

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May I assume that "Bur lap" set you back your first born. Did they have to have it made causing the long delay? I just noticed that 96 and 296 have the same description and your samples look like what I have (296). What is the difference offhand.

The only diff I can see is that 96 is convertible and 296 is hardtop.

The set would be different then as there is not a headliner in the convertible. Probably other differences as well in the set as a whole.