You may find a drain plug on the gas tank to get the funky fuel out of it. I
know the earlier cars had them, but I am not sure about the 72.
FWIW, I have parted out a few of the 72 -74 cars, so if you need any parts,
give me a shout.
Anyone have any ideas on how to get the rear carb on the 1098 running
smoother on a gravity fed fuel tank?
Brad
On 7/15/06, Les Jones <lcjones@croakingfrog.net> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Played with the Midget a couple hours tonight......
> It hasn't run for at least two years according to the PO.
>
> I got it running tonight! Awesome!!!!!
>
> The first thing I found was the rear wiring harness ground had been
> disconnected. Not broken or worn. It was flat disconnected. Put the
> ground eyelet in it's proper location and all of a sudden the fuel pump
> sounded much much better. It quit beating the pack panel to death!
>
> So I crank it over and nothing. Started checking the fire from the coil
> and there was none. Pulled out the trusty Bentley's Official 1275cc
> Spridget book and the damned coil was reverse wired. Dist going to
> ground. Got that handled.
>
> Cranked it over again and dang if fuel didn't start leaking from the
> fuel hose at the SU's. Turns out, the fuel hose that runs from SU to SU
> was split at both ends. Someone must have used a torque wrench on the
> clamps because they were cut right at the clamp. And besides that, some
> joker put freaking OEM Volvo vacuum hose on it instead of fuel line. I
> put new fuel hose on! :)
>
> Cranked it again. No go! Started looking at the SU's and the rear SU
> piston was stuck. Took it apart and oiled it up slick-er-n-snot. So I
> thought I do the other to. As soon as those SU pistons could move
> freely, it flat started up with out a hitch. I mean it cranked, fired
> and ran.
>
> I had it running off and on about 10 minutes. It's got some old gas in
> it so it would sputter itself out. I'll get that handled toot-sweet.
>
> Anyway MG #107072 runs and sounds good at this point.
>
> And I am one very happy camper! I was holding my breath......
>
> Les
>
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