75 fuel pump running

[AZDatsun]

I have a 75 and the fuel pump runs in the on position I know that is wrong so I started sleuthing.  I opened my AFM and I noticed that even when the flap is fully closed the points circled are always making contact.  I have read that’s the fuel shutoff switch so it makes sense to me if there was some gap when the flap is fully closed right? If so should I just bend the thicker wire more straight to get some separation? 

[Captain Obvious]

Well before you go bending stuff, I think it would be important to know if someone had been in there before messing around.

Can you / could you tell if someone had been into the AFM before you?

[Zed Head]

I had a problem for a while with low idle RPM killing my fuel pump power and bent the rod to keep it powered.  There should be a gap when the vane/flap is closed.  Might be that somebody in the past adjusted yours.

There might be other adjustments, but the switch should definitely be open, have a gap, when the vane is shut.  That's the whole point of the switch.

[AZDatsun]

Just reporting back that it was indeed that contact that was causing the fuel pump to run with the key in the on position I bent it very slightly away from the contact and now it is running like it should