[TheSilverBuick]

Replaced the union first thing Sunday morning and no more weeping. So all appears tight and good. I drove the car to work yesterday and will for the remainder of the week and if nothing serious crops up I'll drive it CA. The dirt parking lot and road coming to work should provide an excellent way to tell if I have any fuel seeps anywhere as the dust should stick to it.

I am having an electrical issue with the smog/vacuum pump popping the fuse. It seems to be drawing far more amps than it should, which I hope isn't indication it's going south. It sounds healthy, like a fan/blower motor should. There are a few examples out there of folks saying they've had continuous duty durability issues with them, but all state it quits working, nothing about popping the fuse.

So I checked the amp draw on one of my spare air pumps and it pulled between 10-12 amps running, and the one on the car is pulling about 18 amps, but it also had a ton of heat soak. So I put it on it's own circuit with a 20 amp fuse. I had two other things on the same fuse, so between the three they were popping the 25amp fuse. I'll prep the spare one for use and maybe install it on Wednesday as driving to work this morning it popped the 20 amp fuse, so it's probably ready for total failure. When I'm in CA I'll hit the junkyards and see about grabbing an electric air pump from a mid-90's Taurus as they are reportedly more robust than the LT1 one I am using.

The damn fuel problem cropped up again driving home from work yesterday. It has to be the lift pump. So I installed the Thunderbird's old TBI pump and threw the other one in the trash. Plus it moves a lot more volume too.

Time to drive it some more.