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Summer has arrived in the UK in the form of a heatwave (at least its a heatwave to us - 30 degrees plus). By way of celebration I unearthed the Healey from the garage after three years of hibernation and after several hours fettling and got it through it's MOT test first time. For those of you not UK based this is an annual roadworthiness test all cars over three years old have to take. I've had three year old cars fail this test so for me this was a BIG THING!
So the last couple of days the car has been taking me to work and back along the country lanes of greenest Warwickshire. However, and here comes the lucky escape bit, this morning I noticed a slight wiff of petrol going to work. I assumed it was the choke sticking as that was one of the things I had had to fettle. Got home this evening, pulled onto the drive to the sound of pssst - pssst -pssst etc. So I popped the bonnet - arghhhh - petrol dripping, nay pouring onto a very hot heatshield and exhaust manifold. Now what do you do, back off and wait for the big woof or try and fix it. Working on the (somewhat flawed) logic that as it hasn't gone woof yet it's not likely to now as the ignitions off and the fuel pump isn't building any fuel pressure I grabbed a spanner and tightened up the offending connector and the fuel ceased to flow.
So the moral of this story is if your car has been off the road for some time check the rubber seals haven't shrunk or hardened otherwise you may go out in a ball of flames (oh yes and I had taken the fire extinguisher out of the car when I layed it up, you can guess where that is now and it isn't my workbench anymore /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonod.gif !)
So the last couple of days the car has been taking me to work and back along the country lanes of greenest Warwickshire. However, and here comes the lucky escape bit, this morning I noticed a slight wiff of petrol going to work. I assumed it was the choke sticking as that was one of the things I had had to fettle. Got home this evening, pulled onto the drive to the sound of pssst - pssst -pssst etc. So I popped the bonnet - arghhhh - petrol dripping, nay pouring onto a very hot heatshield and exhaust manifold. Now what do you do, back off and wait for the big woof or try and fix it. Working on the (somewhat flawed) logic that as it hasn't gone woof yet it's not likely to now as the ignitions off and the fuel pump isn't building any fuel pressure I grabbed a spanner and tightened up the offending connector and the fuel ceased to flow.
So the moral of this story is if your car has been off the road for some time check the rubber seals haven't shrunk or hardened otherwise you may go out in a ball of flames (oh yes and I had taken the fire extinguisher out of the car when I layed it up, you can guess where that is now and it isn't my workbench anymore /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonod.gif !)
