Guess I forgot to mention it, but Autumn wanted to use my place over a month ago for a garage sale. So I had to move my Buick out to their place until the stuff was cleaned out so I could put my car back in. The day finally came last week, but when I went to start the car, it wouldn't start!
After running the battery down, I checked the glass fuel bowl on the fiter and saw that it was barely half-full. I'd suspected the fuel pump was weak since the first time I started it after getting it back home originally as we had to use a siphon pump to get the fuel up to the pump from the tank.
A new pump was located and ordered from Auto Parts Warehouse. Doubt that I will ever order anything again from them as it took so long for them to ship the part. I think the website is only a front for other parts sources, why else would it take several days to ship out a part that is supposedly in stock?
In any case, it arrived yesterday about noon, UPS pulled up out front as I was getting tools together to go out and do the job. So in no time at all I found myself headed out to the country to work on the car. As soon as I looked it over, I saw that the new pump output fitting did not match the original setup, so I had to make another trip back to town.
Stopped at the closest place, Autozone, and the guy there didn't have what I needed, so I went to NAPA. Took awhile there to explain what I needed to the young kid behind the counter, but eventually he got the idea and I was on my way back out to the country.
Before I left for town, I did put the battery charger on so I would at least have a good strong battery in case it took some grinding on the starter to pump up the fuel. With the help of my grandson, Billy, we had it back on and ready to start in no time.
About 5 short grinds on the starter and she fired right up! Wow, what a difference. In the past it would take a good while to get the fuel pumped up, but even with the line from the pump to the carb completely dry, it hardly took anytime at all.
Once the mess was cleaned up and the tools put away, Billy followed me home as I now had 2 vehicles out there. The car ran great, got up to 70 in no time flat, gotta love an old car. Left the car in the drive and rode back out with Billy. Drove my other car back home and finished making room in the garage for the Buick. Feels good to have the ol' girl back home again!
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