Common repair is to tap the inside the of the green port and carefully screw in a barbed nipple.

 

Thanks sir.

 

Here is a fix. Unfortunately the thread needs reworked. If you read it, and then look at the pics at the end, hopefully you can get the idea.

Broken fuel pump/sending unit fitting....

I went to start the W250 and smelled a heavy gas odor....no leaks on engine, but....noticed fuel dripping down from the fuel tank....removed the bed and found that the rubber lines needed replacing badly....also the return line fitting was broken off on an angle....picked up another (used)...

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Thanks sir.

 

Depending on the year of the engine there may not be an eccentric on the cam to even drive a mechanical pump....you can bolt it on but it aint gonna work lol

 

Correct....the funny thing is on that year doesn't seem to mean nothing.....had a 91 Dodge van with a 360 and a LA style timing cover that the hole for the fuel pump is blocked off in the casting...yet it had a long snout cam. Then I had a 90 model 318 that had regular style timing cover with a typical block off plate covering the hole with a short nosed cam.

This thing already had the 2 barrel carb and intake on it and it's an 87 model engine with a manual fuel pump that seems to be working with a gas can.

This thing was a mess when it got hauled in to me. Point dizzy, but yet it had a brain box on the driver side fender with only 3 wires going to it with butt connectors just pushed on to the pins. The computer was still hanging on the driver side fender also.

It's running now with the brain box that was on the fender....it's mounted where it should be....(heck the bolts where already there, so where the bolts for the voltage regulator) and an electronic dizzy that I had laying around and wired up correctly. Had a GM one wire alt also....threw that outside and wired up the 88 style alternator with the older style regulator.

Thanks again for the help everybody.

Lee

 

George here is the completed "howto" for you

DODGE TRUCKS @ DODGEBOYS.NET-howto fix the 1988-1990 TBI fuel sender unit

After careful consideration of the various options presented both on here and a few long distance calls....and I thank you all for your thoughts on th

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