Fuel pump (suction)

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06-21-2020, 10:19 PM

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What Mallory pump are you running? I run Mallory 140's. I just went and looked at my Scarab and the pumps are mounted even with the top of the fuel tank. My loop does go down to about halfway down the tank.

140 bottom of unit which is where the pump is right about level with half tank

06-22-2020, 06:13 PM

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Here is what I am planning to avoid a suction problem from the high pressure pump.

06-22-2020, 07:35 PM

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Here is what I am planning to avoid a suction problem from the high pressure pump.

yeah I'm just running a carb so I dont have a high pressure pump and I dont have a mech pump provision on my block. Hopefully I need a high pressure pump on my new boat👍

06-24-2020, 04:17 PM

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yeah I'm just running a carb so I dont have a high pressure pump and I dont have a mech pump provision on my block. Hopefully I need a high pressure pump on my new boat👍

You could use a water pump mounted fuel pump. That is what I am doing.