hello all,
any advice / comments appreciated. Mini mayfair 89 , suddenly stalls in traffic. Fortunately I was with a friend, and we managed to push the car into an open parking space, which is a feat in the middle of paris.
In any case, we eventually figured out that there was no fuel getting to the carb and were about to leave the car for the night and take the metro, as it was dark and we couldn't really see or work.
I expected that there was fuel in the tank as I had filled up 2 days earlier and the fuel guage showed 3/4's full, but we decided to remove the fuel cap and listen for fuel sloshing in the tank anyways. Stranger things have happened. As soon as we removed the cap, it was obvious that there was a significant vacuum in the fuel tank. There was fuel in the tank.
Well you probably gueseed it with the fuel cap off, the car started fine.
So now I have some questions...
- The fuel cap on the car is not vented (I checked). Is this normal?
- Is the tank normally vented? Where? How?
- Any other comments
thanks
CM