I think this is VERY good advice. My SO has been saying something to
this effect, but I hadn't really put much thought into it until now.
I'm going to replace all those lines!!!! Any other things like this I
might have missed????
Becky
69 MGB roadster with another thing to replace!
Jim Carney wrote:
>
> 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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