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MG TD TF 1500 - Sometimes you get surprises

After last years GOF central we stopped on the return trip in Denver and took in the two days of the Colorado Conclave. Saturdays event is tour of unknown route and destination following instructions along the way. About half way through the drive the TF started stumbling and eventulay I had to pull over and stop. The fuel pump was pumping away to beat the band but she wasn't getting any up to the carbs. I crawled around under the car in the dirt and I knew I really wasn't going to accomplish much but after a while we got the car running (I have no idea where we were as I'm not familiar with the east slope of Colorado). We decided to continue on with the tour and the car ran flawlesly to the destination restaraunt. After lunch on the return trip to the hotel the car once agin went through the same routine and in the end I had to surrender and call for a taxi to take me to the hotel to get the truck and trailer. I haven't reall driven the car much since then but it wasn't causing any problems so I just forgot about it. Well I took it to the Saturaday/ Sunday car show at a park about 15 miles away and after about I thought I felt the same sympyoms coming on again. I backed off the throttle and parked it at the show. Yesterday we went to pick up the cars with my wife driving the truck/trailer with the TD and me in the TF. We had agreed of our route because of some road construction and that she would follow me home.

Well the TF started acting up again and she went on by me on her way home. I left my cell phone in the truck figuring I wouldn't need it with her following me , right? I wound up nursing the TF home the last ten miles through the action of 4th gear driving at about 20 mph until the bowls would go emty and coasting with the key on trying to fill the bowls again. Did make it home and on the way noticed the low fuel light come on. So today I figured this would be as goo a time as any to drain the tank and see if the coating I put on was coming off or if the tank load of fuel I filled up with in Sheboygan was full of crud. Put her on the lift and armed with a 5 gallon bucket I disconnected the fuel line from the tank. Just as I suspected. Just the tiniest trickle of gas. Removed the fitting and now have full flow dumping in the bucket. So waht was causing the plug?

Here, have a look for yourself. I have no idea how he got in there but he made a great fuel plug.
It's a decent sized wasp it you can't tell in the photo.


LaVerne Downey

Had a recent critter foul up recently as well. Working on a '65 MGB tune up and finish up restoration stuff. Asked me to flush the radiator as he's having over heating problems. Drain the fluid and it's a nice green color as it should be. I decided to remove the radiator and support to blast and paint, new oil lines.....and flush the radiator more comfortably. Stuff coming out of the rad resembled chocolate milk which was odd after the nice green fluid I saw. After about 10 minutes of flushing, what comes out? Acorns. Lots of acorns. Guy who did the restoration did not bother to check to find out if anyone took up residence in there. Gee I wonder why it's over heating?!!!!She's running like a champ now.
vping

I thought Wasps were made by Marmon, not MG...

Dave


Dave Jorgensen

Maybe I should refer to the bug as a hornet. That would give more legacy to the TF nick name of "Green Hornet".
LaVerne Downey

I knew these cars had their share of bugs to be worked out but thats the first time I actually saw one!
Bob McLeod TD 5618

I am having the same problem with my TD, starving for fuel but then going again for quite some time. I seem to always nurse it home but suspect clogged tank strainer. Takes me back to 65 with my TR-3 in Guam, failing from fuel starvation. After many nights on the side of the road, I eventually found someone had dropped a golf ball in the tank, and as it deteriorated, the rubber bands worked there way to the fuel pump and clogged the filter (bowl). I still suspect the little fellows from the north sabatoging me for my involvement with the B-52 missions, but I never could prove it. My case file has never been solved after 46 years. Clean tank, filters, good pump and a good day.
R.AF. Robert Finucane

Yo-all had a problem with the bugs looking for a B P station.
sorry just could not resist.
Sandy
SANDY SANDERS

Lavern

Sounds like you don't have the screen in your fuel tank. Moss # 378-520
Bruce Cunha (1950 TD 4139)

You are correct Bruce. The old screen was just plain nasty so I ripped her out. I suppose it would have saved me some grief in this case.
LaVerne Downey

So a story is told of a gy running out of fuel in the middle of the forest with no one around.

As it happened a Bee came by and taking pity on the poor driver, the Bee summoned his friends to help. The Bee had the driver open his tank and then the Bee and his friends flew into the tank. Several minuets later the Bees flew out of the tank. The lead be told the driver to start his car. To the suprise of the driver, the car started and the tank was full. The astonished driver asked the Bee how this was possible. To which the Bee answered BP!

Now that we have been stung with this, have a great day.

JP Jim

Thats a "honey" of a story Jim.
LaVerne Downey

....don't know if B's Pee....but turtles fart cause I've seen the bubbles.....
(Ok...so it was really funny in grade 7....so what)
gblawson(gordon- TD27667)

and .... all of the Bees that you see are females.
Bud Krueger (TD10855)

Once my Rover 2000 started quitting or being feeble randomly, and I finally realized it was both fuel level and distance related. Nearly full it would quit in a couple of miles but start up soon for a few more, less fuel meant more miles but a longer recovery time. Left me stranded on the road one night nearly empty and had a vacuum in the tank, so I drove home with the cap open.
Turned out a mudwasp had methodically laid about 6 eggs in consecutive chambers as they do, in the vent line. Rover has the vent line up inside the C pillar, and you get to take the LHR fender and C pillar cover off to fix it. This was our DD at the time, so it's not like the car had been sitting for a long time. I now put screens on vent lines!

FRM
Fletcher R Millmore

We have a chap here in Rockburn with a turbocharged Volvo.

Somehow a mouse built a nest in the inlet to the turbo while he was away for the winter.

... cost him $3,400.

... not much left of the mouse, either !!

Gord Clark TF4592
Rockburn, Qué.
Gordon A Clark

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