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The Crypt Car lies dead as stone in the street in front
of my house. Brand new fuel pump failed after 25 miles
of use.

Car started just fine this morning, backed down the drive,
started moving forward and died. Would not restart.

Fuel pump not moving fuel. Dead as dirt.

This totally, really, really getting old.

And I don't have another extra fuel pump.
How many extra fuel pumps should one carry in the
trunk of a TR6? 5, 6 10?

I'm surely disgusted

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Are you sure that the gas gauge did not give you a false reading when you may be out of fuel? Highly unlikely that a new pump would fail that fast.
 
I think they see Puerto Rico and ship all the reject parts there thinking you can't easily come over and go postal.Besides Pedro never returned anything. Reading your posts make me not even want to touch my car, that way it can't break. Dang, I just jinxed myself.
 
Who did you buy the pump from?

Where is the pump made?

Hopefully it is like the AC/Carter ones that can be rebuilt.
 
Hi There Tinster;

Man; How can Anyone have so much "Good Luck" with an LBC?

I don`t know what I would do, but by this time, I surely would be a bit Dis-couraged and Frustrated to say the least!

heck; Why don`t You just have the Car Shipped Stateside to the Nearest Brit Mechanic You can find; It`ll probably be "Less Costlier" and certainly "Less Frustrating"!

I don`t Envey You;

Good Luck;

Russ
 
Neighbor helped me push the Beast back into the Crypt.

I noticed the area surrounding the previously flooding
carb was once agai soaked in gasoline. So A real good thing
the car broke down when it did.

A flaming inferno going down the highway would have been
scary.

I think I'll cover the Crypt Car over for a while and
concentrate on other things more productive.

I used to average 19 miles between break downs.
Now the Beast is so unreliable it dies in it's own lair.

d
 
Dale I feel for you.
I have been having my own crypt day over here. I put the engine head back got the timing chain lined up, and then went to tighten up all the head bolts. At less than 50 ft lbs, one of the nut just striped itself to bits. And these were the "heavy duty" head nuts. Now I am going to have to get some new ones sent from England since there is nothing suitable locally. $2 for nut, $5 for shipping. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif Just when I though I was making progress.
Yisrael
 
Ya know ... after all the time (and bucks?) you've spent on Crypty, once you've finished replacing ALL its innards you'll likely have the most reliable TR6 in the world!

Gotta look on the sunny side.

Tom
 
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I know what you mean, Yisrael.

I've myself quite a mess here. I used Permatex to seal the
float bowl gaskets not knowing that's a big NO NO STOP!!

The Permatex reacted with the gasoline, mucked up everything
inside and wrecked the gasket as well. Now the carb really
floods like a waterfall.

So four new gaskets, new fuel pump spare, new water pump
spare, ball joints and tie rods ordered this morning. Shawn
is sending me an emergency float bowl gasket to see if we
can get Crypty off blocks again. A major cleaning of the carb
insides to get the Permatex mess out. Make a note-Permatex
reacts poorly with gasoline.
 
Tinster said:
I've myself quite a mess here. I used Permatex to seal the
float bowl gaskets not knowing that's a big NO NO STOP!!

The Permatex reacted with the gasoline, mucked up everything
inside and wrecked the gasket as well. Now the carb really
floods like a waterfall.

Make a note-Permatex
reacts poorly with gasoline.
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I didn't know that gasoline reacts with the Permatex. I guess that is one lesson that won't be forgotten! At least you know what the root cause is.
I was so happy this morning until that nut stripped itself out. I was kind of tired this morning after having gotten back late from the university last night and decided to blow off work for most of the day to play with the car. I actually did make allot of progress and almost thought that I would have the engine all together in a few more days. Oh well. Now I am a bit worried that the rest of the bolts are going to self destruct when I continue tightening the head down.
 
What's your gas tank look like inside? Could be loose crap flowing out of it and messin' with you...
 
You know Tom,
I was thinking along those lines this morning as I walked
past the dead TR6. I HAVE dumped a whole pot of money and
endless hours... mostly to accomplish very little other than
I now have a really, really nice LOOKING old car.

I'm now having to replace new parts with even newer new
parts as the new parts fail. That's a bad omen.

So what use is a stone dead TR6 that looks really nice?
I'm thinking to purchase a 72 LCD monitor, install some large
fans and wire the garage for "surround sound."

I can rent old Steve McQueen movies, crank up the sound, sit
inside dead Crypty and go thru the gear shifts right along
with Steve. Even beep the horn as soon as it's fixed.

gotta keep thinking positive.

d
 
Tinster said:
I've myself quite a mess here. I used Permatex to seal the
float bowl gaskets not knowing that's a big NO NO STOP!!

The Permatex reacted with the gasoline, mucked up everything
inside and wrecked the gasket as well. Now the carb really
floods like a waterfall.
Click to expand...


Dale, that Permatex Aviation advice came from me. Reading the label, as I just re-read it, says it does not react with gasoline. I have used it before with no problems. What can I say.

Check out Permatex.com
 
Bill
The regular "blue", "red" RTV silicon type gasket maker specifically says not to use it in contact with gasoline.

The form a gasket series of products are a totally different chemical type (based on Rosin / Propanol and a bunch of other stuff.

Dale, which type did you use? the stuff from the car parts place (smells like vinegar - that is what cures the silicon rubber ) or some other type?
 
Nice car cover! If you're gonna call it dead, put a cross on the cover or drive a wooden stake in it's drivers seat to keep it from rising again.

Or you can take it off and check what's down inside that tank. Remember the sand in the fuel pump? It came from somewhere and that somewhere is your fuel tank.

Maybe DPO Pedro had someone else very mad at him before you bought this car and they decided to add a little beach to his fuel.
 
Dale,

One other thing. You're learning about your car. You're learning how to repair, fix, rebuild, reconstruct your car.

While holding down a job and keeping the Mrs. Happy. Not a lot of other guys can say that.

So you ARE learning. Remember Edison said that he failed about 95 percent of the time, when he tried something. But the other 5 percent made up for it.

You're getting closer.
 
I guess a mental walkabout is in order after
only 1.4 miles driven between breakdowns and two
months effort and mucho more $$ expended.

A new low, even by unreliable Crypt Car standards.

1.4 miles driven. That's grim, indeed.

So is the small craft warning thru Sunday.

d
 
Tinster
a good 'walkabout' will clear your head and do you some good.
While your car is 'on jacks' have a good look at the welded connection brackets where the front suspension is fixed to the chassis. When mine started to fail the front suspension felt 'loose'. I noticed that you mentioned this 'loose feeling' a few posts ago.
Regards
Craig
 
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