Early Saturday morning I set off for the National at the British motor museum with excitement. It has been over a decade since I last went to the National which was then at Billing. I get 10 miles down the road and the car stalls - I coast into a driveway, scratching my head looking under the bonnet with no obvious clue as to the problem. So I turn the key and engine fires up and off we go again. A few more miles and it happens again.
I then found that I could not release the bonnet lock ! Wedge re started, I head back home. I manage after a lot of cussing to get the bonnet open and strip the carbs. The float bowls had 10mm or so of rusty crud in the bottom. Could have planted potato's in them ! So i dug out the crap, cleaned the bowls and blew compressed air through the carbs and put them back together. So this is rusty fuel tank syndrome ! I had been driving the 7 for about 2500 miles in the past year after recommisioning it from a 9 year rest. I realised that I had never thought to fit an in line filter in all the years of ownership, so rectified this. So a new plan was hatched to get to Gaydon on Sunday.
to be continued..........
