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Marshal: My experience with our C-300 parallels yours. The car was restored and the engine “refreshed” in about 1989. I did have to replace the fuel pump as it was leaking and recall I also used the Maryland outfit. The 8.5:1 compression in the C-300 hemi enabled the car to run on anything from crude oil to French perfume. Maybe not too efficiently as my wife observed that it really stunk when she followed it in another vehicle. Gross polluter, I’m sure. I’ve previously reported getting better mileage towing that car with our ’05 Durango than I got driving it. No doubt, some tuning would have improved that. BTW, the estate of the man who bought the car is now marketing it through the Volo Auto Museum. See: http://www.volocars.com/vehicles/14055/1955-chrysler-300 I’m having seller’s remorse. Rich Barber Brentwood CA From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 'mgoodknight@xxxxxxxx' mgoodknight@xxxxxxxx [Chrysler300] Maybe I'm just lucky. I've been dealing with fuel system adversities for more than 50 years and I don't find things to be a great deal worse now than in the past. I've not checked the alcohol content in local fuels in a long time now, but I suspect that here in Florida we still have less of it than in many parts of the country. Between 1995 and about 2004 I never saw local content to be greater than about 6percent (measured with a rather crude test device, careful monitoring required because of 2-stroke sensitivity). My sense of smell is not very acute, but it seems that now we have less ethanol than at some times in the past because I hardly smell it at all now most of the time. A few months ago I disassembled the fuel pump on my C300 just to make certain that it was still in good shape before driving to Wisconsin. What I found was no noticeable deterioration of the diaphragms and it remained clean and corrosion free internally. The pump was a new Airtec from Carquest in 2008. I drive the car a little bit almost every day, refuel it about once a month, and have now accumulated just over 21,000 miles since I started driving it. There's little for me to complain about. ---------------Marshall Goodknight
I also have had 2 fuel pumps rebuilt by Arthur Gould in New York - no problems. Doug Warrener From: "leslie miklas ldmiklas@xxxxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300]" <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Three different 300s and 3 ethanol-eaten fuel pumps. They worked long enough to push the diaphragm chunks up and clog the lines. Has anybody had any luck finding ethanol resistant fuel pumps or can recommend a rebuilder using ethanol resistant internals ????? Thanks Jeff Miklas
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