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No expert here.
I'm guessing fuel, along with you.
_Right_ after it stops have somebody crank it and check for spark
(screwdriver to ground ), just to rule that out. I think you will have
spark.
With a dead stop like that I'm thinking something that kills fuel to
both carburettors simultaneously - something like the fuel pump! Or
maybe a flex line gone soggy and blocking. Or maybe a blocked fuel
filter, blocked with all the crud from the tank if you were without
heated storage over the winter. Yeah, I like that blocked fuel filter
idea, especially since it ran for a while and then flat died.
Like I said, just guesses.
Good luck! You WILL beat this problem!
Bruce Burrows
'59 MGA basket case
'60 Daimler SP 250
'61 Daimler SP 250
'73 MGB driver
My Dart website (not my cars!):
http://community-2.webtv.net/guardian45/THEDAIMLERSP250DART/
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From: "Andrew Proudfoot" <amproud@nf.sympatico.ca>
To: "mg list" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Fuel Starvation 77B
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:57:30 -0230
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Reply-To: "Andrew Proudfoot" <amproud@nf.sympatico.ca>
Hello all,
Twas a proud day in Gander as the 77 rolled out of the garage, had all its
fluids changed, plugs out, turned over, plugs in, started right up!!!!!!
:-)) <VBG> Even got that great smell of burning Castrol as I had spilled a
little putting it in. All is well in the world right? Wrong. After about ~1
min she shut off as if some one had turned the key off. So much for the
grin. :-(
Best I can tell there is fuel pumping to the carbs (disconected the line and
pumped some in a cup) new gas too as the tank was drained before the body
work started, and their is spark. There is no reason that the timing would
be off. I managed to get it going again a couple of times and it ran for
about 5 minutes once with me playing with the throttle than it died the same
death.
I figure I have a piece of dirt in a carb needle? What do the experts think?
If so I have no idea how to get to such dirt. Let alone get rid of it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Safety (not so) Fast
Andy P. 77B
Gander, Nfld
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