Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Its 11:30pm and I should get to sleep since I have to get up at 5:00am. I think I'll go out in the garage and tear an old spare lift pump apart and get diesel all over my hands. Whats wrong with me?
Anyway... I wanted to check on something. I was thinking if a person could take a diesel proof hard setting epoxy and fill in the spring area of the check valve inside a lift pump... that would essentially disable it and keep the ball from unseating. That seems to be a common problem among some pump failures. Placing the epoxy in there to fill the void would be easy. I think it would hold after it takes shape and hardens.
Wonder if that would cause the pressures to skyrocket? Since there is a relief on the VP also... that would relieve excess pressures. If that valve failed, its cheap and easy to replace in comparison.
What am I missing? Would this pump do a better job if it wasn't made with a relief valve in the first place. Just something to ponder for me.
Anyway... I wanted to check on something. I was thinking if a person could take a diesel proof hard setting epoxy and fill in the spring area of the check valve inside a lift pump... that would essentially disable it and keep the ball from unseating. That seems to be a common problem among some pump failures. Placing the epoxy in there to fill the void would be easy. I think it would hold after it takes shape and hardens.
Wonder if that would cause the pressures to skyrocket? Since there is a relief on the VP also... that would relieve excess pressures. If that valve failed, its cheap and easy to replace in comparison.
What am I missing? Would this pump do a better job if it wasn't made with a relief valve in the first place. Just something to ponder for me.
