Try taking off the gas cap when this happens. Check fuel filter. Check fuel
pump.
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> From: Christopher Palmer[SMTP:ctp@gbn.org]
> Reply To: Christopher Palmer
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 1999 12:08 PM
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Weber trouble? It's back! HELP!!!
>
> OK...here we go...
>
> My midget developed what seemed to be a vacuum leak (won't idle, runs
> rough). I took off the carb, checked it over, adjusted it, re-tightened
> my manifolds, replaced the carb base gasket, re-installed the carb...it
> worked fine for 2 days.
>
> Last night I stopped off for a few minutes at my parents' house...went
> back
> out to the car and the starter just barely turned over (this is a new
> problem it has developed)...I waited a few minutes and it started right
> up.
> Then at the end of the block it developed the original symptoms
> again...started idling around 500RPM and running rough. I nursed it
> home...by the time I got to my driveway (5 miles later) it wouldn't idle
> at
> all. I left it at the bottom of my driveway for an hour. When I went
> back
> out I started it up, and it ran fine, and idled fine.
>
> What is going on?? Vacuum leak? Duff battery? Sun spots?
>
>
> I had this online conversation with my mother this morning:
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> >How did you fix it last time?
> Took it all apart and put it back together.
>
> >It sounds like some connection is loose.
> yes...the connection between a 30 year old MG and reliability!
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>
> Thanks
> CTP
>
>
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