Joe,
When you accidentally flood the engine, I have found that holding the gas
petal all the way to the floor and trying to restart usually works. I think
the petal to the floor tends to let more air in to overcome the flooding. I
don't recall having to do that in a car with SU's but I think it would still
work, especially since they don't have accelerator pumps.
Dave 72 B
-----Original Message-----
From: Garner, Joseph P. <JPGarner@UCDavis.Edu>
To: MG list (E-mail) <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, May 27, 2000 5:00 PM
Subject: impatience is not a virtue
>At the risk of looking like a silly bugger....
>....I was running round the block to the garage to put some air in the
>tires. The engine was idling fast and rich because of the auto choke, which
>always irritates me. So i tap the accelerator to the floor to reset the
>choke, like someone mentioned a couple of weeks back. I felt very pleased
>with myself as the revs fell below 1500. And then felt very stupid when the
>engine died on me. Bugger. I guess i must have flooded the engine when i
>tried to restart it, because i got to sit by the side of the road for five
>minutes whilst i waited for the petrol to evaporate a bit or whatever the
>hell it does when you wiat for five minutes after flooding the engine.
>Anyway, humphrey started up quite happily, and i warmed up the engine for a
>couple more minutes before i set off. No more problems. I guess the moral
of
>the story is that humphrey knows when he's warmed up and doesn't need the
>choke anymore.
>
>However, i have had fun this weekend sprucing humprhrey up an making him
>feel loved. The boot lamp was broken when i bought the car, so i finally
got
>round to fixing that. And cleaning up the battery whilst i was at it (the
>terminals were pretty corroded and no-one had been near it for years). Oh,
>and Mike discovered last night that putting a six pack of beer behind the
>passenger seat, and then sliding it backwards a little too fast is a bad
>idea. Somehow he managed to slice a can right open (you'd've thought that
>between a docotr and an engineer we might have some common sense). It's
>probably good luck thouhg, like launching a ship! So I wound up taking the
>seat out this morning and pulling the carpets out and cleaning them. I've
>had to muck around with the seats before, and the lack of foresight in the
>placement of the bolts is amazing: if you slide the seat right back there's
>about 1/8" short of enough clearence to get a socket on the bolt! GRRRR!
>
>Routine maintenance went well, but i need to invest in some jack-stands or
>some ramps so that i can get under the car to lube the break cable, and
>check the transmission and differential oil levels. Anyway, I thought i'd
>pump the tires up to the "continuous high-speed driving" pressures of 27PSI
>front, 30PSI rear, seeing as i plan to do around 300 miles on the freeway
>this weekend. We'll see if that makes humphrey a little less thirsty! Still
>i think i need to bite the bullet and have the carb overhauled sometime
>soon.... when i have the money.....
>
>have a great weekend
>
>cheers
>
>Joe
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>Dr. Joseph Garner
>Department of Animal Science,
>University of California,
>One Shields Avenue,
>Davis,
>CA 95616
>USA
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