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Mine worked for 6months with a mechanical pump. I had it set at 6.5 lbs. It left me stranded and on a rollback. After I found out it was dropping to 2 lbs after running for 15 minutes I removed it and put in a lower pressure pump.

just asking,using a non liquid filled gauge right? any heat from the engine will screw up the liquid filled gauges,in my experience

are you sure you dialing it the correct way to lower the psi?

And the wife wins

She pulled out my recite and I have 5 day's left on the warrenty so I'm going to take it back and get a new one.

Thanks for the help and happy Turkey day to everyone

Update......
got new regulator and still over pressuring. Only thing I can think from this point is pump is putting out more pressure then regulator can handle and the pressure relief on the pump isn't dumping back into the tank like its suppose to- so time to lift the bed and pull the pump (full tank of fuel).

full tank of fuel..yep,sound like the way i would have to do it as well.

you running a stock TBI intake pump?

not sure what reg you have,post a pic of it if you could

looks like the one I have with my holley blue pump knockoff.

I am feeding it with a 1/2" line with 2-3/8 lines,one to carb,one for return.

this reg is not intended for a return line so I added a restrictor in the return line,i have 2 gauges and they both hold a steady 5 psi with pump on.

the stock intank pump is a high psi pump and may need to have a working return line like stock.

may just need the right reg

What are you using for a restrictor in your return line? I was thinking of trying some kind of restrictor but haven't come up with anything I'm comfortable with yet. I need to run up to the local home depot and have a brain crunching in the brass fitting section

I have a 90* fitting right off the reg,i used a #2 philps bit inside the fitting(wont go thru the 90* bend)

it restrics it down at least 75% i would think.

with out it,it has no psi on that side and free flows,it does keep 5 psi on the other side, but not sure when driveing as I cant see the gauges

last one I saw converted with the stock intake pump had the regulator from RobbMc it was a deadhead or by-pass unit,,not sure if its fits your budget though

I also have one of those purolator regs that has a hand dial and is 5/16 outlets with hose barbs.

not sure if it would handle the intank pump

Thats some good engineering, and I have all that on hand. I just got to thinking while I was typing this I think I might have a shut off valve out there that should allow me to adjust the the restriction in theory

Thanks for the help buddy

Ok I lost pressure again so I decided to open the tank and find out just what was up and found a ton of dirt in the tank and on the screen of the pump. I think I finely found the irregular pressures, now if I just clean the tank and sreen the pump should start working consistently. I will also use a return line to fix the regulator problem

Wrong photo.

This one is of the sediments in the tank but the pic doesn't do it justice.
I gess this is what you get from a used truck that someone else has "taken care of"

what did you do with the tank full of gas?

I bet that is the trouble and you are on the way to fixing it now.

I took my electric fuel pump and put a filter on it to filter the fuel coming out of the tank as I pumped it into gas cans. When this is all done I have a commercial grade pump and filter that I will pump it back into the tank with just so that I can give it one more filtration just to be sure. Kind of an over kill but that pic doesn't do the crap in the tank justice.

Once I get this all taken care of I will go back to trying your bypass regulator trick.

my elect pump and holley reg always read high without the motor running.