Bill
I would look at replacing that low hanging rubber line with a steel
line that is clipped to the body, just like it was originally. Steel
tubing is not that hard to work with and it would be a lot safer than that
dangling rubber line.
Ron Fraser
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From: owner-tigers@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-tigers@Autox.Team.Net] On
Behalf Of Steinman, Bill
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 2:17 PM
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Answer to stuck Tiger
First of all, thanks to everyone for their advice and suggestions!
Having made it home, only to experience the very same indicent as I pulled
into the driveway, here's what I was able to figure out. I think it's a
combination of fuel delivery and battery. Here's what I've found.
1. The battery is indeed all but dead. The car died in the driveway before
I could get it into the garage. I checked all the connections, everything
was fine. So, I figured I would simply swap out the battery with a new
spare I have lying around. Car started right up.
2. I do, however, think that fuel delivery is also at play, and here's why.
The Tiger has died only when I've been driving on a hot day for about 1/2
hour, and exactly when I'm pulling into a parking spot -- in other words,
right when I'm doing some very slow forward and back three-point parking
exercise, and hardly moving. This is also when the pump starts making an
outrageously loud noise. So here's my theory. A prior owner of my car,
when installing the modern fuel pump, installed a rubber fuel line that
dangles about four inches above the passanger-side muffler. Now, there may
be sludge in the tank that is sucked into the pump, causing it to labor (of
course the piror owner didn't install a filter between tank and pump). The
pump starts working hard, drawing more electricity at about the same time
that engine RPMs are low and the car is running off the battery and not the
generator. Alternatively, fuel is vaporizing in the low-hanging line,
causing the pump to labor and draw more electricity, with the same result.
With a new battery in, I wasn't able to repeat the problem.
Soooo, I'm actually going to switch to a deep cycle battery, install a fuel
filter, a heat shield on the muffler, and also make sure that dangling fuel
line is farther away from the muffler.
Thanks again for all the guidance.
B.
Bill S.
2005 Lotus Elise
1968 Triumph TR-250
1965 Sunbeam Tiger
1965 Austin Healey 3000 Mk III
www.TR-250.com
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