Mine's original too -though I have cleaned the points & adjusted it
when it got a bit grumpy. Car's history is similar to yours, except
my dad bought it when I was small enough to fit in the rear seats
Richard
'60 BT7
At 07:04 PM 7/10/2007 -0700, Richard Hosmer wrote:
...My ORIGINAL (it's a one-owner car) 1962 SU pump is still working
just fine.
The car was garaged (admittedly in a benign climate) for 15 years,
during 10
of which it was not run at all, and NO (I'm stupid, too) special
pre-storage
precautions were taken, at all. Initial fire-up, after pulling
plugs and
oiling the cylinders, then installing new plugs, included about two
minutes
of coughing and spitting, but the pump ticked over as soon as
electricity
was supplied to it.
I've been following this and similar threads, since I KNOW it will
not last
forever, but, just for grins, how many other listers still have
their
original pump, working?
Dick Hosmer
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