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Question for Either TheFermanator or Spareparts or anyone else that might know.
In light of what happened to me over this past weekend, it got me to thinking... Why don't outboards use electric fuel pumps? Seems to me that it would be a lot easier than having a squeeze bulb, vacuum diaphragms, lines all over the place, etc. I'm fairly certain that the fuel pressure would have to be regulated, just like on a car, but they make fuel pressure regulators for just that reason. In fact I've used several of them over the years on cars that I've converted from mechanical pumps to electric. For that matter, why not use a mechanical pump much like what was found on cars for the longest time? They could grind a lob on a crank just like they ground a lob on a cam. Why are we using these pumps that run off the crankcase vacuum?
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