Fuel pump change

[bb71challenger]

I was thinking how much I used to hate changing the fuel pump on my 'Cuda, Chrysler or Challenger, getting my hands dirty, making sure I had the pump rod placed right, dinging my head on the hood latch a few dozen times.........I was thinking this as I lay underneath my 97 Chevy truck, pulling the tank and wrestling the beast so I could change the in tank pump......I was thinking I would much rather be changing the pump on some nasty old big block than messing with this Chevy.

[06Daytona]

I used to have a 78 Malibu with a 350 and an engine compartment free of clutter and it used to take me 10 minutes to change a fuel pump at the side of the road. My girlfriend had an 80 or 81 Corvette with a hard bolted AC unit(no adjusters) and when the fuel pump died on it I spend at least four hours changing it out. I even managed to slice my finger open pretty good and sprayed blood all over the hood as a little payback. When I start work on my Cuda I'm making sure that I have lots of access to the fuel pump and a few other bits that I might need to get at

[brads70]

I tried to get mine off the 440 before I painted it but I didn't have a socket thin enough to get the bolt off closest to the block. I'll have to pick up a thin wall socket sometime?

[go-fish]

First time I met Allen (MoparAl) I was changing the in-tank fuel pump on a 96 Chevy truck. Anytime an in-tank pump goes out on me it seems I've just filled up too.