[Nobbc] Sunday's drive and a brief technical note...

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Ron
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Tony
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Engelhardt <nobbc at sonic.net>

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:47:11 
To: North Bay British Car Club<nobbc at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Nobbc] Sunday's drive and a brief technical note...


It WAS a good ride and beautiful weather! I wasn't able to stay for 
lunch but this is a familiar problem. I'm always able to start when it's 
hot but it does run raggedy until enougn fuel pumps up to the bowl to 
replace the gas that boiled out.

On a side note, my car was built exactly 50 years ago tomorrow so she'll 
be getting a birthday ride tomorrow to celebrate. Think we'll ever see 
any 50 year old Hyundais?

Ron
58 MGA

gtwincams wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> That was a great drive today, and what a nice turnout! Thanks Ron for a 
> great job keeping us all in a tight group. It was also great to see the 
> newer members and get some new cars on the drives.
> 
> For those of you who did not attend and those who didn't stay through 
> lunch to see John having troubles starting his Lotus after lunch and the 
> subsequent resuscitation, I thought it might be useful to share with 
> members who may not have gone through this before. 
> 
> After cranking with no throttle to no avail, Walt and Dennis suggested 
> open throttle, so we tried 1/2 and wide-open, both to no avail. After 
> verifying we had spark and the fuel pump was working, we saw that the 
> fuel filter in the engine compartment was almost completely empty. We 
> were smelling fumes and assumed we had fuel flow, but the engine 
> wouldn't even cough. A check of the plugs showed no fouling. Finally, we 
> removed the air filters and with John propping up the Stromberg's air 
> valves 1/2-way (constant-depression carbs won't draw up the pistons, 
> even with throttle butterflies open, until the engine starts sucking 
> air), we cranked with 1/2 throttle and the engine fired up.
> 
> When I lived in So Cal I had an MGB that would cook off gas in the fuel 
> bowls on hot days when parked in the sun, even cooking off fuel in the 
> engine compartment fuel lines. I'd smell what I thought was gas, but was 
> only fumes, and would sometimes not be able to get the engine going 
> until it had cooled enough to clear the fuel line vapor lock and/or fuel 
> bowls. That's what seemed to be the problem today. It was quite a hot 
> day, John's Elan is painted BRG (dark color), and it was parked in the 
> sun. After moving it to the shade, cooling it down, and getting the air 
> intakes open, away she went. The fix for my old MGB was heat shielding 
> on the engine room fuel lines and SU fuel bowls; John's will be cutting 
> two vent holes in the inner fender well, a modification Lotus employed 
> in cars built after John's.
> 
> Have a great week!
> 
> Greg and Trish
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