This sounds like what happened to Sybil, my TR-6. She would run fine
for a while and then suddenly lose power, run on 3 cylinders, cough,
run a bit and die. It turned out to be the rubber fuel lines. In the
latest incarnation of this problem, she would run fine until the fuel
filter filled up, whereupon it would get heavy, sink down a bit and
kink the fuel line. I would pull over, look, poke this and that,
maybe change fuel filters from the case in my trunk, and it would be
fine again (because the fuel had drained out of the filter.) A few
miles later, errrrr-pht-pht-koff.
$0.98 worth of neoprene fuel line fixed the problem. Do *ALL* the
bits at once, it's not hard and the stuff is cheap enough you really
want to do it while you're wearing grubby clothes, not when you're in
your dress whites and late to an important meeting...
--berry
From rwg1@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu Tue Sep 11 11:32:56 2001
From: (Roger Garnett) rwg1@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu
To: RCG1597@zeus.tamu.edu, british-cars@autox.team.net
Date: 3 May 93 14:33:06
Subject: Re: MGB Headlamp Rim (How do you get it off?)
> Subject: MGB Headlamp Rim (How do you get it off?)
> I need to check something on my headlights, and I can't figure out how
> to get the stupid outer chrome ring off.
This is a common British car part- The trim ring hooks over tabs at the
top, and snaps over a spring steel finger at the bottom. You need to
prise the bottom of the ring forward, off the finger. This finger is often
bent or broken, making it harder to remove the ring. THey may not be in
the catalogues, but I have found new replacement fingers at swap meets,
the only alternative to a wholw new headlight bucket.
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