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Yes, car seems fine now. Well not really, we have a new issue
but it runs fine and removing/cleaning the fuel system of the
silicone seems to have fixed the problem. Too bad I didn't find
the silicone before I purchased a new fuel pump. We have found
the previous owner had stock in a silicone company, even found
some in the radiator when we did a flush and I think that is why
the car runs a little warm. It got in the cooling system via the
silicone on the thermostat elbow. There is LOTS of silicone
around the motor's front plate, I mean LOTS so I am afraid it got
into the motor as well, we have decided to pull the motor and
clean it up and reassemble it, since the car has good compression
and oil pressure, we wont touch the internals, just open it up and
re-seal it properly. <br>
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Right now I am fighting a squeak/rattle/scraping sound when under
moving forward only, it does not happen at idle or reverse. I
thought it was the driveshaft hitting the exhaust manifold but
made some clearance and that was not it. I really hate the idea
of pulling the motor without knowing what it is first because then
I might put the motor back in with the same noise.<br>
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But the fuel system is fine now :)<br>
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mike<br>
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On 3/2/2016 4:59 PM, Linda Grunthaner wrote:<br>
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type="cite">Figure it out yet? I love the find regarding silicone
in the fuel tank.
<div>Keep going,</div>
<div>Keep us posted, what you learn we will learn too.</div>
<div>Linda </div>
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<div>62 Sprite Pinky</div>
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On Sunday, February 7, 2016, Ron Corry via Spridgets <<a
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 07, 2016 9:01
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spridgets] merry xmas,
now get to work on car.</div>
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<div>Thought I would come back with a status report on
the mini that was not running on freeway that I
asked about a month ago, remember that far back ? :)</div>
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<div>I tried everything, I assumed like most of you it
was gas related, swapped out fuel pump, swapped out
fuel lines, pulled the distributor and checked its
advance curve and put in optical points, back to the
fuel system as it was still happening.</div>
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<div>Decided to remove the fuel tank and clean it out
inside, I found that the previous owner had used RTV
silicone to install the sending unit…BINGO found the
problem it was gas all right.</div>
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<div>Rather large bits of silicone floating around in
the tank, one would get sucked into the fuel pickup
and stop the fuel flow…car would shut down and
silicone would float away to come back later. Here
is a pic oh what came out of the fuel tank. <a
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<div>Car was running fine again until yesterday, new
problem, its a squeak/grinding noise under
acceleration only no noise when coasting or clutch
is in. Motor mounts feel fine as I thought it was a
loose motor allowing metal to metal contact Can’t
identify it but its not the fan belt I removed it
and tested that theory…ah the joys of someone else
old car problem…</div>
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<div>Mike</div>
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