[Healeys] Why carry spares

[Richard Kahn]

Nice day so we went to the wine country in the Healey. Bought a dozen 
bottles
of wine. On the way home the fuel pump stops (that will sober 
you up fast).
OK, no problem, I carry a spare. Unload the wine from the 
boot and all the
other junk I carry there. Pull out the spare fuel pump 
from under the
battery. Bolt it on and fuel spills from the top AND and 
bottom gaskets.
Remove wheel again, remove fuel pump again and take 
points from new pump and
install on the original pump. So, if I hadn't 
had the spare, I wouldn't have
had parts.

While we were on the side of the road, nice people in a 50's Rolls Royce
stopped. No help there and they didn't even have any Grey Poupon. A 
couple in
a Sprite came by and waited till we got going and followed us 
home, some 70
miles. Fortunately they live 3 miles away at Lake Tahoe. 
Small world or
what?

So now I know I have to repair the previously, professionally rebuilt pump
before out trek to Bent OR.
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