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Re: LBC NDC (Near Death Experience)

To: Becky Mahoney <bmahoney@home.com>
Subject: Re: LBC NDC (Near Death Experience)
From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:39:49 -0400 (EDT)
        One other thing that often goes unchecked is the rear axle oil.
The book recommends checking it every 3000 miles. When was the last time
yours was checked? I ruined a good axle last year because I put off
changing the oil until the end of the season. Well the end of the season
came early for me!
 ...Art
 On Sun, 31 May 1998, Becky Mahoney wrote:

> I think this is VERY good advice.  My SO has been saying something to
> this effect, but I hadn't really put much thought into it until now. 
> I'm going to replace all those lines!!!!  Any other things like this I
> might have missed????
> 
> Becky
> 69 MGB roadster with another thing to replace!
> 
> 
> Jim Carney wrote:
> > 
> > Check the filler neck to tank hose too...I pumped a bunch of gas into my
> > boot the other day. Duh.
> > Jim
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Richards <flybirds@erols.com>
> > To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
> > Date: Sunday, May 31, 1998 3:26 PM
> > Subject: LBC NDC (Near Death Experience)
> > 
> > >Listers,
> > >If your MG has been sitting around and you are just getting it back on
> > >the road, REMEMBER!!! Replace those fuel lines! Nice fancy new paint
> > >jobs do not look good when they are all charcoal-black.
> > >Averted near disaster today whilst I was driving to work. All of a
> > >sudden, there was liquid on my windshield....wiped it up with my hand
> > >while driving, and smelled it....it was gasoline!!!
> > >HORROR......WORST NIGHTMARE....VISIONS OF OLD "CHiPS" EPISODES...BANG!!
> > >With luck, I was able to pull over, whip my top boot cover, whip up the
> > >top and frame, tear off the carpet, get to the ground terminal and take
> > >it off all in a matter of 20 seconds....the fuel pump stopped, but the
> > >gas kept going....whipped up the bonnet to find to my luck, the crack in
> > >the fuel line sent gas up and onto the bonnet underside. Good thing it
> > >didn't spray all over that nice hot exhaust manifold.
> > >
> > > The culprit was a 2" section of gas line going into the ZS carb. It had
> > >dry rotted, and missed my examination of my hoses. I replaced a few, but
> > >not all. This has made me learn my lesson for sure. Just as I get in to
> > >go and start up my car, lo and behold, yet another geyser!
> > >
> > >Popped the hood and found that the section of hose that joins the two
> > >metal fuel lines by the heater box had sprung a leak also. I was able to
> > >patch that with some scrounged bits from an absorbtion canister hose,
> > >and I was on my way home, put Red Molly into her garage bay, and let her
> > >rest from her near death experience.
> > >
> > >Man, what a scare. 10 years of restoration, and I almost lost it all
> > >from a measly $1.00's worth of fuel line.
> > >
> > >So let this be a hint, Go out and inspect all your fuel lines for dry
> > >rot. From the tank to the carb...just to be sure. We don't want any LBC
> > >accidental deaths.
> > >
> > >Oh, BTW ....two miatas, one BMW 325i, and a corvette w/T-tops all with
> > >their tops UP on a 85 degree breezy day in Virginia.
> > >SINNERS!!!!
> > >Waved to them all, no waves back...do they realize that this is bad for
> > >driving Karma??
> > >
> > >That is all for the rant department today.
> > >
> > >Good day and don't forget....
> > >
> > >Drive 'em topless!!!
> > >
> > >Kevin Richards
> > >
> > >77B
> > >67B parting out.
> 


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