Mechanical fuel pump.

[Baxter]

Okay.
I bought an iltis of unknown condition.
I decided to put a diesel in it.
I never used the petrol engine.
I replaced the fuel lines with polyamide tubing and removed the electric fuel pump.
We used the iltis for 1 year.
The diesel engine developed a nasty noise and we decided that the diesel engine is not suited to a standard iltis gearbox, so we are currently preparing the original petrol engine to be put back in.
I thought it would be simpler to use a mechanical fuel pump rather than chop my fuel lines around only to find the electric fuel pump doesn't work.
So, I removed the blanking plate from the engine block but the fuel pump does not fit as it touches the vacuum advance unit on the ignition distributor.
Has anyone fitted a mechanical fuel pump on a 24v iltis? Did you have any clearance problems?
Or, did you turn the cam belt one tooth on the intermediate shaft and turn the distributor away from the pump?

[Baxter]

Oh, incidentally, the noise on the engine was simply a loose flywheel, even though we used new bolts and torqued them correctly.
Never had that before!

[MacSchreck]

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Mechanische Benzinpumpe

It´s an already existing theme.

Greetings

Markus

[Baxter]

Yep, that's it!
I think it maybe the brand of fuel pump I have used.
The one pictured looks a little smaller than the one I have.
Clean I up, put it back in the box and back it goes!

[Baxter]

In the end I dusted off the electric fuel pump and fitted some banjo fittings to the polyamide fuel line.
All appears to be working.
I couldn't get a mechanical fuel pump here that did not foul the distributor.