Intermittently Dies
I'm a couple days into a 4200 mile trip and my 1991 Tioga Arrow motorhome (Ford E350-based with 7.5L 460i engine) is giving me some problems. I'll be driving along and it will start to lack power but...
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T18skyguy wrote:
The stock pump had a re-design and the new one is called the turbine pump.
Right. The older low pressure pumps used an Archimedes Screw design.
You can see where (if the bottom end of the tube in the pic was fully submerged) you could put a suction hose over the top and pull liquid through it.
I found this out from another forum when I was adding a generator to an old Class C that didn't have generator feeds off either of its tanks. Somebody told me the generator's fuel pump would pull fuel through an in-tank pump (of that vintage) even when the in-tank was not running. He was right. Ran that way for years.
The "turbine" or "vane" pumps don't let you do that.
