noisy fuel pump on taimar essex v6

[smulli555]

Have had a annoying noise from engine bay finaly traced it to the mechanical fuel pump, is there a way to quiete them down as dont realy want to go electric.any advise appreciated

[smulli555]

Its definatly the pump as i Started and ran the engine to fIll carb then took pump off started engine and noise had gone. Did not see any teflon on end of pump arm so it will be spanners out

[smulli555]

Only numbers on pump is 300 9- g theres no spacer on engine block only paper gasket. No name on pump

[smulli555]

Adrian when i took the pump off the aRm had plenty of engine oil on it. The noise did sound like noisy timing gears but recently it sounded like a chuffing noise so i looked at the pump.

[smulli555]

Cheers Adrian will make up a spacer tommorow and have a look at oil feed issue