Fuel Pumps and stuff...

[Bluerex]

OK, so I am sitting at the computer rather than anoying the neighbors with by underbody stripping efforts... my mind turns to Fuel delivery - as it does

I have the standard mk1 78 LS tank and I want to replace the mechanical stock pump with something a little more up-market. Also since this is NOT going to need to pass ADR's (restricted rally/race rego) it does not need any of the carbon canister or other junk that accounts for the 6+ hoses that come and go from the stock tank.
A couple of riders:

• I can/want to run fuel lines through the cabin (suitably protected of course)
  There has to be a "flame and liquid proof bulkhead" between the crew area and the fuel bits
  There will be a 3 mm alloy "bash plate" bolted to the underside to protect the tank from rocks and other nasties.

So I am fishing for suggestions as to what I cacn chuck out, what I can replace it with and how many of those hoses I can block off/ignore

C

BTW how DO you remove the level sensor from the tank??????

[syncro]

Re: Fuel Pumps and stuff...

I have the standard mk1 78 LS tank ??????

You mean 78 GLS or 76 LS.

You really need a charcoal cannister to let the air in and the fumes out. To save space you can get a Jap one.

[Bluerex]

Re: Fuel Pumps and stuff...

I have the standard mk1 78 LS tank ??????

You mean 78 GLS or 76 LS.

You tell me

Where should the filter go?

C

[syncro]

It's a GLS. Chassis number 177........... (Golf 1, 1977 model)

I think that the cannister lives next to the wiper motor.

[Bluerex]

It's a GLS. Chassis number 177........... (Golf 1, 1977 model)
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How cool! The hatch badge said LS but all this time it was a German built critter!!

C

[Golf Loon]

Someone swopped badges on ya. All 77s are German built GLS`s.

Do away with heaps of those silly hoses at the back that clutter up the fuel neck. I am up to the fuel line stage with my golf project, but want my one to be road legal, so the lines have to go outside the car. I dumped lots of those hoses and simplified the spaghetti system though.

Saab 900s have plastic lines inside the car under the carpet as do several other cars.

If you are only using carbys, any low pressure electric fuel pump will be the go. Not one from an efi car tho. I just took one out of my Jetta to make way for the efi pump!

DVR68U on here has just fitted a nice electric fuel pump to his Mk1. Very neat it looks too. And the car runs!

[Bluerex]

Thanks Loon, keep me posted huh? and PICS please!!

C

[Golfwise]

Make sure you vent the tank though.Even if its to the atmosphere (no rego) other wise problems may arise.
Do I understand you want to get the fuel guage sender out?
Just twist it anticlockwise