Check the filler neck to tank hose too...I pumped a bunch of gas into my
boot the other day. Duh.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Richards <flybirds@erols.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, May 31, 1998 3:26 PM
Subject: LBC NDC (Near Death Experience)
>Listers,
>If your MG has been sitting around and you are just getting it back on
>the road, REMEMBER!!! Replace those fuel lines! Nice fancy new paint
>jobs do not look good when they are all charcoal-black.
>Averted near disaster today whilst I was driving to work. All of a
>sudden, there was liquid on my windshield....wiped it up with my hand
>while driving, and smelled it....it was gasoline!!!
>HORROR......WORST NIGHTMARE....VISIONS OF OLD "CHiPS" EPISODES...BANG!!
>With luck, I was able to pull over, whip my top boot cover, whip up the
>top and frame, tear off the carpet, get to the ground terminal and take
>it off all in a matter of 20 seconds....the fuel pump stopped, but the
>gas kept going....whipped up the bonnet to find to my luck, the crack in
>the fuel line sent gas up and onto the bonnet underside. Good thing it
>didn't spray all over that nice hot exhaust manifold.
>
> The culprit was a 2" section of gas line going into the ZS carb. It had
>dry rotted, and missed my examination of my hoses. I replaced a few, but
>not all. This has made me learn my lesson for sure. Just as I get in to
>go and start up my car, lo and behold, yet another geyser!
>
>Popped the hood and found that the section of hose that joins the two
>metal fuel lines by the heater box had sprung a leak also. I was able to
>patch that with some scrounged bits from an absorbtion canister hose,
>and I was on my way home, put Red Molly into her garage bay, and let her
>rest from her near death experience.
>
>Man, what a scare. 10 years of restoration, and I almost lost it all
>from a measly $1.00's worth of fuel line.
>
>So let this be a hint, Go out and inspect all your fuel lines for dry
>rot. From the tank to the carb...just to be sure. We don't want any LBC
>accidental deaths.
>
>Oh, BTW ....two miatas, one BMW 325i, and a corvette w/T-tops all with
>their tops UP on a 85 degree breezy day in Virginia.
>SINNERS!!!!
>Waved to them all, no waves back...do they realize that this is bad for
>driving Karma??
>
>That is all for the rant department today.
>
>Good day and don't forget....
>
>Drive 'em topless!!!
>
>Kevin Richards
>
>77B
>67B parting out.
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