ditchlewis
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 05:42 PM |
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broken hearted
Here I sit broken hearted at the side of the A12.
My fuel pump has given up the ghost, don't know why but it has. Ran well this morning for 50 miles.
Recovery truck is on the way the wife and kids will laugh all weekend on this one and use it as an example why I should not build a plane next.
This is the first long run after a winter lay up and it started a few miles back the engine just died. Could not hear the electronic pump doing its
thing, fiddled for a bit and it ran. Got 10 miles down the A12 and it stopped again.
Hairy moments but sitting at the side of the road car out the way of the traffic,not a safe place to fiddle so called for recovery.
Not a good start to the summers motoring.
Ditch
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scudderfish
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 05:48 PM |
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Commiserations. My pump started playing up today as well. Luckily I was only a couple of miles from home and I managed to nurse it back.
As for the wife and kids, ask them what they've built recently.
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Johneturbo
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 05:53 PM |
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Don't you carry a spare!
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ditchlewis
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 05:57 PM |
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I was over confident this morning I did not even bring a spanner. What a spanner I am.
Not the first time I've been recovered home, my fan belt snapped on the way home for the sva test.
At least it is sunny and dry.
Ditch
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chrisxr2
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 06:01 PM |
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hmmm
fuel pumps seem to be all dieing at the minute.
Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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dhutch
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 06:02 PM |
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It happens, touch wood nothing to report here yet, but never go out without a few spanners.... Ive got a 1/4inch halfordspro socket set i take on long
trips too.
Get a new one fitted this evening and get out again!
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 06:15 PM |
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if its had petrol sitting all winter its turned into varnish.....and made the pump sticky
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stevegough
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 06:25 PM |
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could be worse... imagine the fuel pump packing up in your dream DIY plane!! Chances are you'd probably survive, but sods law says you'd
be ditching in the sea!! 
Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
IVA passed Jan 28th 2011.
First drive Feb 10th 2011.
First show: Stoneleigh 1st/2nd May 2011.
'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
Back on the road with 2nd engine may 24th
First PASA mad drive 26/7/11
Sold to Mike in Methyr Tydvil 19/03/14
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ditchlewis
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 07:41 PM |
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Just got home.
nice guy called steve recovered me form the side of the duel carrageway. has a good long chat about bikes and trikes on the way home.
by the way which pumps are the best, mechanical pumps run from the engine or electronic pumps?
i will try and trace down the fault and also get a replacement number plate as the front one got trashed going over the kerb onto the grass.
well i,m smiling and the kids are laughing so all is well with the world. you just have to take the car out for a run and you know why you built
it.
i will also put together a few tools to keep in the car for road side repairs.
Ditch
PS i can highly recommend the Footman James insurance and recovery policy i have £159 fully comp, i recon i have had over £100 back tonight.
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BenB
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| posted on 8/4/11 at 09:20 PM |
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All I know about fuel pumps is the carb ones sometimes stick and giving them a tap with the wrong end of a screwdriver sometimes gets them working.
Then again it depends how burnt out they've got whilst jammed. Then again, my fuel pump on my RC plane kit recently jammed solid and smoked for
a good minute or so before I noticed. Let it cool down and it's good as gold now... Now sure how that's relevant but it's good to
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