fuel starvation

30th January, 2006 by Jonathan

Started replacing the fuel lines with a nice new stainless steel braided set from MGOC, except they just didn’t want to co-operate. They wouldn’t fit onto the filter that came with the service kit and were a right pig to fit anywhere else, so I decided that standard hoses would be more suitable!

I also fitted a new battery from Halfords (naturally, batteries for modern cars start at £40, batteries for old MGs cost a lot more…) and decided to turn the key to pump the fuel tank dry. No such luck.

That’s when I found that the two hoses that aren’t included in the kit are the two most likely to perish, the two down underneath the car on the fuel pump. And sure enough, one of them had perished and split.

That wasn’t the problem though, it appeared that the fuel pump was. Or to be precise, wasn’t (a pump, that is).

Total… £290.78