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Old 03-18-2007, 08:39 PM   #1
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return line or no return line

Hi I have been reading for awhile on here to try and find this answer but have had no luck I will be installing a Holley Red electric fuel pump in my 85 TA for my switch to carb and removing the old intake pump because it does not work. what do I do with the return line should I get a regulator with a return or just block it off ? I know by reading here that the other line that use to go to the canister can be feed out by the fender.What have you guys done
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It will be alot easier on the pump to run a return line rather than 'dead heading' the thing.
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The Holley red has an internal bypass, so you could omit the return line. Running a return-style regulator at the engine would help keep fuel temperatures down, though.
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Old 03-18-2007, 10:21 PM   #4
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when you say omit does that mean block it off or just take it out from the tank as I will be dropping the tank this next weekend and I need to know what to do with all the lines comming out of the tank? Hope that is not a stupid question as I am learning all this here as I go.just updated my info so you could see that I am also from Canada.
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he meant to run a dead head style regulator.

But like ape said, running a return style reg will help to keep the fuel cooler from the circulation...
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I have a mallory 4309 regulator I bought awhile ago before I found out the pump in the tank was no good should I run that with the holley red to my edelbrock 1406 carb.
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If you've got the regulator already, you might as well go ahead and use it.
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OK thanks for all the help you guys have been great
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