Captain Torque
New member
Hi All,
I have what seems (to me) to be an odd problem. I took my 1970 Fiat 500L for a drive yesterday and it ran fine. It had been sitting for a while due to inclement weather, so it took a little cranking but it ran fine once it started. Today, she would not start at all. I eventually traced the problem down to a lack of fuel. There was no fuel getting to the fuel pump at all… it was dry as a bone. In the past, when I disconnected the fuel line going into the pump, fuel would flow out rapidly due to gravity. The tank is about 3/4 full, but nothing is reaching the pump. I have not had time to dig into it yet, but is there a common cause for this? I know that there is a filter of some sort in the tank, so I will check that. It just seems odd that it was running fine yesterday and now it’s bone dry.
I have what seems (to me) to be an odd problem. I took my 1970 Fiat 500L for a drive yesterday and it ran fine. It had been sitting for a while due to inclement weather, so it took a little cranking but it ran fine once it started. Today, she would not start at all. I eventually traced the problem down to a lack of fuel. There was no fuel getting to the fuel pump at all… it was dry as a bone. In the past, when I disconnected the fuel line going into the pump, fuel would flow out rapidly due to gravity. The tank is about 3/4 full, but nothing is reaching the pump. I have not had time to dig into it yet, but is there a common cause for this? I know that there is a filter of some sort in the tank, so I will check that. It just seems odd that it was running fine yesterday and now it’s bone dry.