[Morgans] how I spent my day

[Stephen D Stierman]

John,
What year is your 4/4, and what engine? I would like
to know a bit more.  Sounds delightful to have one
with it's original equipment.
Steve Stierman R7082
--- "John T. Blair" <jblair1948 at cox.net> wrote:

> Gang,
> 
> Today I spent it working on the Morgan.  As I said
> yesterday, I wasn't
> getting any gas to the carb.  So I pulled the output
> pipe from the fuel
> pump and blew it out.  Then I pulled the fuel pump
> and cleaned a bunch of
> gunk out of it.  Then pulled the main fuel line from
> the tank and blew it
> out.  And finally drained the remaining 4 gal of
> stale, yellow/browish
> gas out of the tank.
> 
> Put everything back together, put 4 gal of new gas
> (@ $2.80/gal) in.  She
> fired right up and purred.....  So now I'll have to
> take her for a spin
> in the next couple of days.
> 
> One nice thing about the 4/4 and the Zenith V32
> carb, is that you can drop
> the float bowl, similar to removing the float bowl
> covers off the SUs.  So
> I could fill that up with gas, and have a few
> minutes of run time.  So 
> moving the car around and getting the pump to pull
> fuel again, is easy.
> Not sitting there cranking forever, until I get a
> dead battery. :)
> 
> John
> 
> 
> John T. Blair  WA4OHZ     email:  jblair1948 at cox.net
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