New Heavy Chevy!
454, Turbo 400, 4.10s....will be a towing and camper hauling beast! It's even the "camper special."
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Learned this during the discovery period trying to fix a constant carburetor filter plugging up from fuel tank debris. Ditto the fuel gauge would bounce around for one side vs the other side
That valve has a fall back when not energized. Energized, the valve would switch sides
Can't remember now, a 50/50 thing getting it right or wrong which side has the energized or non-energized...
Learned to always use the energized side and run it dry. Stumbles and switched it on the fly to the non-energized side...fun with new friends riding along...stumble and announce we ran out of gas...to their comments...lean over and hit the switch and magically the fuel gauge rose to full...
Then look to fill up promptly...or as long as 20 gallons in the other tank would last...
Still have an extra valve somewhere...bought one thinking it was going bad when it was debris from the tank
Also, the hoses around that valve are bent in an extremely tight radius and cracks over time. That took a while to figure out where the gas leak was from...thought the valve initially, but in changing the valve out...one of the hoses broke in my hands. Hard as a rock and cracked clean through
That valve has a fall back when not energized. Energized, the valve would switch sides
Can't remember now, a 50/50 thing getting it right or wrong which side has the energized or non-energized...
Learned to always use the energized side and run it dry. Stumbles and switched it on the fly to the non-energized side...fun with new friends riding along...stumble and announce we ran out of gas...to their comments...lean over and hit the switch and magically the fuel gauge rose to full...
Then look to fill up promptly...or as long as 20 gallons in the other tank would last...
Still have an extra valve somewhere...bought one thinking it was going bad when it was debris from the tank
Also, the hoses around that valve are bent in an extremely tight radius and cracks over time. That took a while to figure out where the gas leak was from...thought the valve initially, but in changing the valve out...one of the hoses broke in my hands. Hard as a rock and cracked clean through
ford truck guy wrote:
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Only issue I ever had was the selinoide that switched the gauge from passenger tank to drivers tank kept failing..... caused me to run dry once or twice
Good Luck and Happy tinkering
