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06-26-2008, 09:20 PM
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Okay, a FASS question for those of you who know anything about them. I got a new spring in today from them and decided to put it in, and although I was able to find lots of talk about changing a spring, I found nothing about where it went. Of course, I took apart the wrong part of the pump. I took the actual pump part off the base instead of the filter part. I'm guessing from the looks of the what I took off thats not where it goes.....
Now my question is this. The little gear thing on the pump can obviously only go one way, so thats no problem. The pump can only go back on one way. No problem. I saw where the small spring behind the plate thing was before it fell out, so again no problem. The problem is in trying to figure out where the little rubber ball bearing type piece goes? I can't for the life of me find a place that looks like somewhere it can call home? I don't wanna kick my pump back on until I figure it out, so if anyone knows, I'm all ears! Thanks....
Now my question is this. The little gear thing on the pump can obviously only go one way, so thats no problem. The pump can only go back on one way. No problem. I saw where the small spring behind the plate thing was before it fell out, so again no problem. The problem is in trying to figure out where the little rubber ball bearing type piece goes? I can't for the life of me find a place that looks like somewhere it can call home? I don't wanna kick my pump back on until I figure it out, so if anyone knows, I'm all ears! Thanks....
06-26-2008, 09:46 PM
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Okay, a FASS question for those of you who know anything about them. I got a new spring in today from them and decided to put it in, and although I was able to find lots of talk about changing a spring, I found nothing about where it went. Of course, I took apart the wrong part of the pump. I took the actual pump part off the base instead of the filter part. I'm guessing from the looks of the what I took off thats not where it goes.....
Now my question is this. The little gear thing on the pump can obviously only go one way, so thats no problem. The pump can only go back on one way. No problem. I saw where the small spring behind the plate thing was before it fell out, so again no problem. The problem is in trying to figure out where the little rubber ball bearing type piece goes? I can't for the life of me find a place that looks like somewhere it can call home? I don't wanna kick my pump back on until I figure it out, so if anyone knows, I'm all ears! Thanks....
Now my question is this. The little gear thing on the pump can obviously only go one way, so thats no problem. The pump can only go back on one way. No problem. I saw where the small spring behind the plate thing was before it fell out, so again no problem. The problem is in trying to figure out where the little rubber ball bearing type piece goes? I can't for the life of me find a place that looks like somewhere it can call home? I don't wanna kick my pump back on until I figure it out, so if anyone knows, I'm all ears! Thanks....
06-26-2008, 10:03 PM
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06-27-2008, 09:15 AM
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Sounds about right. The spring is designed to keep pressure on the ball, and the ball will be resting up against a seat. When the pressure becomes greater than the spring, the ball leaves the seat to bleed the pressure back off.
Sounds like you found the right spring at least!
Without seeing it though, I'm not making any promises!
Sounds like you found the right spring at least!
Without seeing it though, I'm not making any promises!
06-28-2008, 01:00 AM
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I got everything back together. Everything went just how I thought it did but I wanted to make sure before I ran the pump. The spring wasn't bad, I just wanted more than 12psi at idle as it was dropping to 9 WOT. They sent me another spring to bring the pressure up some and now I'm at 18 idle and 15 WOT which makes me feel much better.
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Okay since I got a pm on this I realized that this thread hasn't really helped anybody figure out where that pesky little spring actually goes...
I'm gonna paste the exact words of Diesel-Dan so that others will know...
"OK......first the spring goes where the Return line meets the FASS pump. Remove the line and then the fitting and the spring is located under there. If it takes you more then 2 mins...something aint right...."
I'm gonna paste the exact words of Diesel-Dan so that others will know...
"OK......first the spring goes where the Return line meets the FASS pump. Remove the line and then the fitting and the spring is located under there. If it takes you more then 2 mins...something aint right...."
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