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With our F15a we still use the mechanical fuel pump, the glass bowl type, and with all the trips we have done the pump has worked fine. I will agree that an electric pump would be handy when it comes to starting the blitz after it has been sitting for a while.
When we bought our ford one toner it had an electric pump fitted and it used to flood the carby so we reinstalled the original pump, so now we use the electric pump only to start the old girl after its been sitting in the shed for a while. The old ute certainly has a lot more grunt than the blitz's you can nearly keep up with the rest of the traffic.
There is a lot of good advice in what the others have stated, we did have trouble once with a worn push rod so we just brased the end of it up and made it the right length again.
Mind you to ease the starting problem we also use 12 volt on most of the vehicles except the carrier.
Max
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