-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Danielson <75TR6@tr6.danielsonfamily.org>
...Just went out to run some errands and after about 20 minutes the car
starts to miss and it keeps getting worse. I get home, pop the hood and
notice that there's absolutely no fuel in the fuel filter... Maybe
condensation formed surface rust on the empty half and filling it up
(twice now this Spring) flushed the rust off of the tank walls and
through the system?...
Would it be a bad idea to disconnect the fuel line at the filter and
give it a blast of compressed air to clear the line to see what
happens?
==AM==
Do it! What you describe is exactly what I've experienced on a couple
cars on different occasions, and in both instances it was fuel line
blockage due to something in the tank. Many thousands of years ago, I
encountered this on a TR6 I was working on for a friend. Long story
short: in that case, someone had wadded up a foil gum wrapper and
dropped it into the filler. It was just the right size to occasionally
float around until it got to the fuel outlet, which it could just about
block. Then it might get sloshed away, only to return. Pulling the tank
and finally getting that stupid bit of foil out cured the problem. YMMV
in that you might have a bit of cleaning out to do on your tank to get
rid of the rest of the rust scale.
--Andy Mace
*Mrs Irrelevant: Oh, is it a jet?
*Man: Well, no ... It's not so much of a jet, it's more your, er,
Triumph Herald engine with wings.
-- Cut-price Airlines Sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus (22)
Check out the North American Triumph Sports 6 (Vitesse 6) and Triumph
Herald Database at its new URL: <http://triumph-herald.us>
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