As of this afternoon the manual fuel pump has been eliminated and we’re running electric only:
It was very straight forward. I measured the distance between the fitting leading to the carb and the hard line coming from the fuel pump. I only needed about 2” of 300 psi rubber line. It was so short I put the fitting/hose assembly in the vise to squeeze the pieces together. Once the pump was out of the way I hooked them together to stop the leakage:
After removing the 4 bolt plate, I pulled the pushrod and installed both plates. I used shorter bolts on the upper two holes as the chrome block off plate is less than half the thickness of the fuel pump casting. I was also lucky on the old gasket. Since a new one didn’t come with the new engine, I made my own out of gasket material. I came off looking like new so I just used it over:
And here’s the finished result. Not much to look at, but thankfully there are no leaks and it works fine:
As mentioned earlier, if this turns out to be the permanent solution, I’ll form new hard lines going off the back of the manifold to clean things up a bit.