In my case I was 50 miles from home and even though I had tools I did not have
a spare pump in the boot.
Good enough reason?
Rickll
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On Dec 14, 2010, at 12:32, Murray Arundell <arundell@ghs.com.au> wrote:
> Why not simply fix the bloody fuel pump?
>
> Murray Arundell
> Brisbane Australia
>
> On 15/12/2010, at 6:02 AM, Max Heim wrote:
>
>> Hmm, I think the problem we have been discussing is generally acknowledged
>> as intermittent failure to actuate due to the points sticking.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>>
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>> on 12/14/10 11:46 AM, Stephen West-Fisher at steve@coastaldatasystems.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My experience with unreliable fuel pumps is actually due to a bad ground.
>>> Note that the ground is also shared by several rear lamps, really bizarre
>>> symptoms can occur when the ground goes "hot" due to the bad connection.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stephen West-Fisher
>>> Coastal Data Systems
>>> 727.831.1142
>>> http://www.coastaldatasystems.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mgs-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net] On
>>> Behalf Of Max Heim
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 2:24 PM
>>> To: MG List
>>> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Market opportunity
>>>
>>> Very ingenious.
>>>
>>> But what I think is funny is that my somewhat facetious suggestion has
>>> generated a long thread of real-world "solutions".
>>>
>>> It would seem that the real marketing opportunity would be for someone to
>>> provide a standard configuration fuel pump that operated reliably.
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