Reply To: 1702 Fuel Pump Not Working

[Gregory Long]

Steve, you are more than welcome, I’m glad you sorted it out.

Did you drop the oil pan on the engine, and clean the sump, clean the screen on the oil pick-up ‘floato’ ? Also, make sure the ‘floato’ oil pick-up pivots up and down freely so it will reliably and consistently draw oil from the sump.

Is the original oil filter system still on the car? Have you installed a replacement oil filter, or installed one of the kits to replace the internal parts of the old oil filter with a replaceable spin-on modern oil filter ??

I highly recommend that you do not drive the car much at all untill the lubrication system is inspected and cleaned.. It’s incredibly expensive to rebuild a v12 engine, so I’d do everything I can to make sure there is no damage done because of preventable maintenance.

Greg L