Gentlemen,
I am embarking on a rebuild of my early (tall ) fuel pump as I, like many others, had fuel dripping from the drain tube.
Exactly as the Technical Manual predicated, three of the lower plate bold/screws and one of the inlet plate screws broke off just below the head, leaving about 3 mm of shaft protruding for the body.
I have read the advice in the manual, have thoroughly flushed the pump of fuel and plan to use heat and vice grips to carefully remove the remaining thread.
However, before I jump in and ruin what little metal is still protruding, can anyone share how they succeeded with this task? Applying heat and grapping 3mm of thread with clumsy vice grips might sound easy, but as in all things, there are always tricks of the trade that separate success from failure and failure in this case will destroy the rather valuable original pump.
Help please!