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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - Anyone got a spare Fuel pump bracket?

I've never had one and not even brittish masters has em. Its driving me insane with the way its currently jury rigged under there!
S.A. Jones

I dont have an exra one but isnt it the same bracket as the electrical coil...I think it is, but not totaly certian.

Prop
Prop

Don't think so prop. There is a steel bracket that bolts on under the car and then a strap bolts over he bottom of that. Moss has a picture but no part. Some PO tossed mine when they went with an aftermrket replacement.
S.A. Jones

Can't remember where(not much use I know), but someone is selling a stainless relacement.
Cheers John
JOHN HALL & JULIE ROBERTS

Prop it looks like this

Seth, there has to be one like this over there

TBH I couldnt find this one when I rebuilt Lara so I made up one similar out of flat strip, it wasnt too difficult, just needed fairly reasonable measurement to get it good enough to fit.

Then I found this... :-(


Bill sdgpm

Bill, if you can make some templtes of that bracket and send me an email with those templates I might just be able to fabricate that.
S.A. Jones

By tomorrow evening Seth

uk time

:-)
Bill sdgpm

Ha,

I was close, It does sorta look like a coil bracket, but thats just the way I remembered it, that would make a good "Name that Part" game we like to play here from time to time

yeah that should be easy enought to replicate, just remember you have to have the pump sitting at a certian angle for it to pump properly....check haynes it will give you the correct degree of angle it has to sit at.

Prop
Prop

"check haynes it will give you the correct degree of angle it has to sit at.
"

???????

With the braket and the fuel pump in the car there is only one angle it can be at. its not adjustable. You simply bolt the strap around the fuel pump after slipping the grommet on the pump, and then you bolt the whole assembly to the car. There are only two bolt holes for this, one at each end. The end with the inlet and outlet goes as close as possible to te fuel lines and the end with the points dust cover faces the outside of the car.
S.A. Jones

S.A.

Well, Apparently I'm losing my mind, sorry about that, For some reason I was under the "influence" that the pump can be installed accidentally in various positions, but had to be set at a certian angle, having just read the section on fuel pumps in the Haynes I could find no mention as to what I was thinking.

So apologies to all for the (dis)-information

Prop...Chaos theory is more a fact then theory in my case...Prop
Prop

Ahppens to the best of us prop
S.A. Jones

Seth if this is any help, using the photo as a guide too

you are welcome


nb the circle is not "quite" 2½ halved as you'd expect

it is slightly asymmetric to allow a clamping force when the two bits fit together

Angles aren't "sharp", so lengths are judged rather than measured to the thou

the 1" wide steel strip is 9&3/8" overall and 5/32" thick (nominal...)


bill


Bill sdgpm

Hi,

I think this is what you're after.

http://www.moss-europe.com/Shop/ViewProducts.aspx?PlateIndexID=10186

The pump can be installed incorrectly, I think the outlet has to be uppermost.

My picture, attached.

M




Mark '74 Midget

For what it is worth I modified an MBB fuel pump bracket to use in the Sprite I was working on. Cant remember the modification, but it did work!

-Steve
Steven Conant

Yep -outlet uppermost - see my photo in "Petrol Leak" thread.
Steve Clark

S.A. if your still interested I have a couple of the brackets your looking for I think, Alan.
ajs alan smith

Vindication...I love it!!

I thought the pump had to go in a certian way, I wonder why Haynes didn't make note of it, must have fallen in the cat. of reassembly is same as dis-assembly.

thanks Steve
Prop

This thread was discussed between 30/04/2009 and 06/05/2009

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