Thread: 1970 Buick Riviera

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Just pulled the 70 Buick Riviera around to my garage.
After about a year I wanted to see why it didn't run.
This is a one owner car I got from a woman about a year ago.
It has not run since I have had it and it's a good thing it didn't.
What I found was one of the garage's she took it to converted the mech drive fuel pump to a electric fuel pump. That would be fine by it's self but. the guy ran a rubber fuel line from the tank all the way to the engine compartment. Towards the front of the front door the fuel line is about 1 inch above the exhaust. Then run up the outer fender well with in 1 1/2 inches of the exhaust manifold. She got lucky that when the line caught fire and burnt a hole thru it the tank was almost empty and the fuel pump burned up. She's lucky the car didn't burn down. So the tank has to be dropped because that's where Einstein put it, on top of the tank, then I have to run metal fuel to the front and then build a heat shield to go between the exhaust and the new fuel line.