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From: The Older Gentleman on 3 Jan 2010 14:22
Mark Olson <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid> wrote:

> The Older Gentleman wrote:
> > steve auvache <dont_spam(a)thecow.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> [1] There is a tale of me, a pre rubber bumper MGB roadster, a dodgy
> >> solenoid fuel pump, a tack hammer, a roundabout and someone rushing to
> >> my aid thinking I had died when after stopping and failing to move off I
> >> was seen to apparently fall out of the door and under the rear wheel
> >> when in fact I was just giving the pump a well practised assist to
> >> restart it but it is too long to relate here.
> >
> > No matter. The mental image I have is already making me grin.
>
> Hah! Steve's not the only one to have nursed an MGB fuel pump along
> with percussive maintenance. After learning the ropes on a '64, my
> '65 had its pump relocated to the relative safety of the boot, right
> next to the single 12V battery.

Talking of odd fuel pumps - Boxerboy of this parish: his son had a
Malaguti scooter. That had a fuel pump that was entirely mechanical,
operated (believe it or not) by the movement of the swinging arm.

As long as you were riding it, the suspension moved and pumped fuel. If
you were motionless, like at traffic lights or whatever, there was more
than enough fuel in the lines and float bowl to last a very long time.

But he didn't know this.

Came the day when some surgery was being done on the bike, and he
couldn't figure out why no fuel was geting through.

Solution: bounce up and down on the seat.



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From: Paul Carmichael on 3 Jan 2010 14:51
On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:54:35 +0000, The Older Gentleman escribió:

> steve auvache <dont_spam(a)thecow.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> [1] There is a tale of me, a pre rubber bumper MGB roadster, a dodgy
>> solenoid fuel pump, a tack hammer, a roundabout and someone rushing to
>> my aid thinking I had died when after stopping and failing to move off
>> I was seen to apparently fall out of the door and under the rear wheel
>> when in fact I was just giving the pump a well practised assist to
>> restart it but it is too long to relate here.
>
> No matter. The mental image I have is already making me grin.

My first on-topic thread ever, and it gets hijacked into a car thread.

I used to keep a hammer in the boot of my Mini for wacking the fuel pump
back into life. One could just take the top off and tweak the points
though. I seem to remember they were adjustable.

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From: Catman on 3 Jan 2010 15:28
steve auvache wrote:
> In article <7qc6v1Fj7mU3(a)mid.individual.net>, Paul Carmichael
> <wibbleypants(a)gmail.com> writes
>> On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:18:44 +0000, steve auvache escribi�:
>>
>>> Sadly the type of pump is not clear from the diagrams and this really is
>>> the key.
>>From the same pdf: http://paulc.es/pump.jpg
>
> Excellent. Put volts to the pump, if it does not rattle it is broke.

Clearly the correct answer.


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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 3 Jan 2010 20:46
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Carmichael
<wibbleypants(a)gmail.com> saying something like:

>I used to keep a hammer in the boot of my Mini for wacking the fuel pump
>back into life. One could just take the top off and tweak the points
>though. I seem to remember they were adjustable.

The thing is, tuppence worth of war surplus transistors and resistors
could have made it reliable as the Sun coming up.
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