>Robert,
>
>On the way to Indy '96 last summer, one of the members of our caravan
>had a similar problem to yours with his MGB around the same vintage as
>yours. The car stalled and just would not start again. It was traced to
>the fuel pump not pumping. We checked that it was getting current, etc.
>but still couldn't get even one tick out of it even after bashing it
>with a "suitable bludgeon"(from "How to Repair Your Foreign Car" by Dick
>O'Kane - great book). Finally, for some reason the owner removed the gas
>cap to be greeted with a great whooshing sound as air rushed into the
>gas tank. Apparently, either the vents in the gas cap had become clogged
>or he had replaced the cap with a non-vented one and running all day
>long just built up so much vacuum in the gas tank that the fuel pump
>couldn't overcome it. Check out your gas cap. Any other late model B
>owners out there ever have a similar problem?
>
>Charlie Baldwin
>'52 TD, '60 MGA, '66 MGB
Had the same problem with my B. One of the DPO's had cludged the fuel
system up, they removed the overflow line going back to the tank and had
plugged the return line into the tank. Changed over to the venting cap and
never have had another problem.
Lane
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