Lotus Elite SU fuel pump rebuild

Lotus Elite SU fuel pump rebuild - part 1

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3 жыл бұрын

I start to rebuild the leaking SU fuel pump on my 1976 Lotus Elite, as part of getting it going after a long damp winter. Will it run?
SU fuel pump repair kit: sucarb.co.uk/fuel-pump-repair-... (not an affiliate link)
Music by Vinyl Silk: vinylsilk.bandcamp.com/

Пікірлер: 23

@wendellfugate4225 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for this tutorial. These are really lovely British sports cars and worth the time to fettle until back on the road with them. Plan on buying one very much like this when I can manage it. As a substitute teacher for the Hawaiian DOE and an underutilized professional ESL lecturer with nil in the old bank account just now it may very well take some time. Ouch. Best wishes to all fellow Lotus fans like us.

@ModernHeroes 3 жыл бұрын

Love the stop motion unboxing 👌- absolute work of art

@GrandThriftAuto 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

@fhwolthuis 3 жыл бұрын

Yes that was great!

@kenny9447 5 ай бұрын

Hi Martin, been through these pumps many times. As much as I wanted to keep the original and purchased rebuild kits, I just took it out and put in a low pressure pulse type pump from Amazon. I'm a happy camper now! Great video!

@GrandThriftAuto 4 ай бұрын

That sounds like a good idea, I may well do the same. They're supposed to be ethanol-proof, but...

@mattw8332 3 жыл бұрын

I love the 'shooting brake' styling of these. This is my favourite model of Lotus.

@GrandThriftAuto 3 жыл бұрын

Mine too! I’m a big shooting brake fan (I also really like my Honda Aerodeck - see kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZOXp7eBp8zJmp8.html). And of course the AMC Gremlin in your avatar 😊

@rogerhudson2814 Жыл бұрын

I like Chapman stories. Sir Stirling Moss had a nasty accident at Spa when the front right well tore off, at a subsequent dinner there was a racecar shaped cake , Stirling cut off the right front wheel and told the waiter " that's for Mr Chapman".

@GrandThriftAuto Жыл бұрын

Love it! That’s a great story, and not one I’d heard. Very characteristic of both of them, heroes in different ways.

@danpatterson8009 3 жыл бұрын

In the early 80's I attended a lecture by Paul MacCready, designer of the featherweight human-powered Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross. His design philosophy was simple: if a part broke, it needed to be stronger. If it didn't, it might be heavier than it needed to be.

@user-vu7ii7lr8s 3 жыл бұрын

The washer jets are lightweight and certainly look like repurposed brake line but I think sourced from/shared with Ford Escort... Thanks for sharing experiences with your cars.

@GrandThriftAuto 3 жыл бұрын

Well I never knew that! Thanks.

@patrickhostler5939 Жыл бұрын

I love the music in this film… can I ask what it is called?

@GrandThriftAuto Жыл бұрын

It's called Bread and Circuses, by my alter ego Vinyl Silk - on Soundcloud here soundcloud.com/vinylsilk/bread-and-circuses or on Bandcamp here: vinylsilk.bandcamp.com/album/the-difficult-second-album (I write my own music partly for fun and partly because I'm too mean to pay for audio rights and too impatient to search the free music libraries. The quality is mixed but hey.)

@hairychin 3 жыл бұрын

'The Algorithm' popped your Aerodeck vid up & I recognised the scenery! Did you happen to buy the Lotus from a guy in Murton?

@GrandThriftAuto 3 жыл бұрын

I bought it from Wiltshire but I’m based around Mumbles/Gower and drive through Murton regularly 😊

@hairychin 3 жыл бұрын

@@GrandThriftAuto Just co-incidentally then there WAS a lotus Elite around Murton many years ago, my mate owned it, non-driving at the time & I don't think he got round to fixing the fuel pump. He only showed me the car once about 20 years ago, seeing your vids driving close to where my mate used to live, I just wondered if it was the same car - it doesn't seem so though :)

@GrandThriftAuto 3 жыл бұрын

@@hairychin Small world! Considering these were always quite rare. I don’t think it’s the same car though, I’m not aware of this one having any local history.