Just turn the engine over while you are pushing on the rod with your finger until the rod goes up in the block and starts to come back down then stop, and install fuel pump. Turn engine by hand. Put a ratchet and socket on the balancer bolt in the middle of the bottom pulley. Turn it that way.
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The rod should be 5.75 inches; assuming the correct year, size, and stock cam, fuel pump, etc.
You just put the fuel pump pushrod back in the hole and mount the fuel pump in place. No big deal. It's just held in there by the fuel pump.
take the fuel tank out of the vehicle. the pump is inside of the tank.
It has a electric fuel pump inside of the fuel tank. YOU MUST REMOVE the tank to get to it.
Remove the hoses from your 1978 Chevrolet 350 cubic inch engine fuel pump. Remove the fuel pump belt. Remove the fuel pump retaining bolts. Reverse the process to install the new fuel pump.
No it will not. Now it will bolt right in there but the transmission will not work and the fuel pump in the fuel tank has to much fuel pressure for a carburetor
Isn't that what you were hoping for?
Your fuel pump is most likely the cause.
7 to 9 LBS.
in the fuel tank
sounds like a vacum leak or the fuel pump is getting weak.