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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - Fuel line routing

I am restoring a 1964 Mk 2 midget 1098cc. When I got the car it was mostly dismantled. Can someone kindly tell me how the fuel line from the pump up to the engine is routed i.e. does it go under the floorpan, or through the tunnel, please ?
Cheers.
M W Sutherland

I'm certainly no expert, but I would think that a fuel line running beside a spinning tailshaft inside the tunnel would be incredibly dangerous. Bad enough if the tailshaft breaks loose, let enough with fuel splashing everywhere.
My '79 model is routed outside the tunnel up against some "strengthening channels" running alongside the tunnel.

Wazza
w butler

The fuel line was originally clipped to the reinforcing that runs along the floor and through which the seats are attached. fron there it crosses over at the front of the tunnel and goes along the LH chassis rail.

Wazza - The brake pipe already goes down the tunnel, so if the propshaft breaks loose then you'd have a problem anyway. Fortunately flailing propshafts aren't not a common failure point. And the flailing end would be outside the rear end of the tunnel and clear of the pipe.
Paul Walbran

here is a photo of what Paul described

(ignore the second pipe on the right side of the seat stiffening channel, as it is a vapor recovery line that was added in '67 for emissions)


you can also see the brake line emerging from the tunnel, it is routed in the corner so that a flailing prop shaft wouldn't have a chance against it



Norm


Norm Kerr

Many thanks guys - a great help. What an international scene Spridget ownership is - fantastic !
Myles
M W Sutherland

. . . . Wazza - The brake pipe already goes down the tunnel, so if the propshaft breaks loose then you'd have a problem anyway. Fortunately flailing propshafts aren't not a common failure point. And the flailing end would be outside the rear end of the tunnel and clear of the pipe. . . .

You are absolutely right Paul, never thought of the brake pipe. But then again, I will only be driving about 20mph anyway so the handbrake/emergency brake will pull me up OK ;-)

Wazza
w butler

The handbrake's in the tunnel too ... :-)
Easier to fix that propshaft if it shows any vibration!
Paul Walbran

This thread was discussed between 24/07/2011 and 26/07/2011

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