If you are using the original fuel pump, it works with contacts which can
stick at odd times. The immediate fix is to bang on the pump with a
screwdriver handle, freeing up the points. Long range fix is new points,
new original-type pump, or replacement centrifugal pump with pressure
regulator(my choice!)
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garner, Joseph P." <JPGarner@UCDavis.Edu>
To: "MG list (E-mail)" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 11:01 AM
Subject: ahhhhg!
> Hi everyone,
>
> So if you remember, motor dies on me on the freeway. Pull over. Starts
once
> dies immediately. Won't start. towed home. Pull the fuel line. no fuel
> pumping. aha! fuel pump problem. Check the power supply. about 8V getting
to
> the pump. A little low, but i figure with all the attempting to start the
> car that makes sense. Tow the car to the shop. Leave it with them. They
ring
> me back, apparently the car has started perfectly and they can't find
> anything wrong with it.
>
> If it was a non-fatal intermittent fault, i would drive it until it broke
> again, and re-diagnose (just like in 2001). But that clearly isn't an
option
> with the fuel pump. My friendly mechnic in Palo Alto, suggested that i
> change the fuel pump becuase it "looked rather old" last time he worked on
> the car. I was thinking of getting the shop here to replace the pump, and
> blow the fuel line through. Any other things to try? Do you guys think
this
> is a sensible course of action?
>
>
> thanks in advance
>
>
> cheers
>
> Joe.
>
> _________________
>
> Dr. Joseph Garner
> Department of Animal Science,
> University of California,
> One Shields Avenue,
> Davis,
> CA 95616
> USA
>
> tel: + 530 754 5291
> fax: + 530 752 0175
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>
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