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RE: Weber trouble? It's back! HELP!!!

To: spridgets@autox.team.net, "'Christopher Palmer'" <ctp@gbn.org>
Subject: RE: Weber trouble? It's back! HELP!!!
From: "Elliott, Patrick" <PElliott@attws-wr.swest.attws.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:24:34 -0800
Reply-to: "Elliott, Patrick" <PElliott@attws-wr.swest.attws.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Try taking off the gas cap when this happens. Check fuel filter. Check fuel
pump.

> ----------
> 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:
> ==============================
> >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!
> ==============================
> 
> Thanks
> CTP
> 
> 

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