Hopeless…
Every since my fuel problem, I've not been able to line up my free time with dry weather.
So I took a chance yesterday morning with
a cunning plan that involved some left over clothes line.
This is plastic covered steel wire and I tried to use it like a drain clearing rods...
This was slow work, pushing and pulling, but it seems to be working.
As every so often there would be a trickle of petrol following the wire out.
In the end, I switched to a second section of left over clothes line that was a little thinner.
This was 'rammed' pretty much the full length of the car.
So I turned my attention to the boot area, where access to the fuel line into the petrol tank was tight.
Unfortunately, this photo was taken after the clothes line had got stuck.
The brute force and ignorance I had already applied to remove the cable at this point had twisted the pipe from the tank.
So I had to remove the access panel from the rear cockpit wall.
( Photo taken after the screws had been removed. )
I'd actually forgotten just how entombed the tank is.
I also removed the fuel gauge sensor to see if that was catching the clothes line.
Eventually, I was able to straighten the petrol tank pipe and remove the clothes line.
I was then able to run the thinner line through the pipe with no problem.
But by now it was starting to rain, so I had to pack up quickly and call it a day.
So not only would a garage have been handy for building the car, it would be useful for running it too.
Especially as the tarpaulin is slowly destroying my paintwork.
Until next time, take care, Paul.
