I forgot to say that I fitted this to a truckmount carpet cleaner a few years ago
It was a 16bhp briggs and stration carboretor with an inline fuel filter
I did the job of getting fuel from the tank under the van and pumping it to the carb with no problems with restriction from the inline filter
They do advitise that these pumps will run up to 200 or 250bhp engine comanly used on rely cars
Thats why I bought it
mind you pumping a mix of kero and oils through it has not help with the risistance to to the higher viscocity
But those fuels used to work with the original macanical fuel pump that I think was driven of the cam so im told
I swaped another manual pump round and it did not pump the fuel so i think what ever drives the pump is gone
The electrical pump is plubed up in line with the macanical pump
When the van was running it lost power and not enouth fuel to keep it going so therefore with the engien turning over the macanical pump was not doing its job along with the electrical
I have now decided to scrap this van has it has poor compresion and wont bum start down a hill at 2 celcius
If tihs pump was up to the job I would of liked to keep it even though im scraping the van
As its a handy tool and could of been used for pumping oil
But if as quoted above it dose not pump through a filter houesing then its useless to me
I will see if the man will take it back but if not can you turn the pressure up inside the pump by any chance?
Rod your commis is a bit like my van it terms of engine but I think tihs is a mis described item  Multi-stage pumps

2011-06-27

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