What about just leaving the caps on the inlet and outlet....like it comes
off the shelf, out of the box, or out of the UPS truck?   That's what I do
and have done for about 20yrs since my old XK 120 Jaguar...the first
electric fuel pump I ever encountered...and being a Lucas-car, I got pretty
intimate with all the electrical parts on that one.

  Really...you think they put some dri gas or Stabil or old dead gas in
them at the factory?   When I change one out, I take the caps off the
inlet/outlet ports of the new one and put it right on the old one, stick
that back in the box and put it in my spares after I douche it out by
running it backwards and putting some compressed air through to blow out
the remaining crud.   I have used a couple stored this way without any
vapor lock or need to prime...

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:15 PM, walkingboss <walkingboss@communicomm.com>wrote:

> All this discussion about storing a fuel pump. Don't you think your missing
> the obvious, what about gasoline stabilizer? Cheap, available at any FLAPS,
> safe! Works for me when I store any fuel system part that needs to stay
> wet,
> fuel pumps,  injectors, fuel distributors (CIS system), pressure
> regulators,
> etc!
>
> Howard
>
> Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Spare Fuel Pump Saves the Day
>