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Aidan wrote:fuel pump eric it's right next to rear wheel and would have been submerged, if electrical contacts not good no fuel, can you here the pump when you turn ignition on ?

Hi Aidan, thanks for your thoughts .... appreciated.

No, I couldn't hear anything because I was parked only 4ft from a busy main road and my daughter's continued loud cackling laughter. She has now, like a naughty malevolent child, posted my antics on bloody Facebook!! ...Grrrrrr.

Notwithstanding that, the AA bloke announced that although fuel was flowing, the pressure wasn't `great.` I take it from that comment that the fuel pump was in fact working? Therefore, unless my logic is seriously flawed, the fuel pipe then goes to the `injectors?` As I said the spark-plugs were found to be dry as a bone. Strange therefore.

Anyway, talking about engines, I was on my way to fetch a newspaper the other morning and looking up to the high-rise block of flats saw our local Iranian on his 6th floor balcony vigorously flapping a rug, so I shouted up saying "Hey, Abdul, having trouble getting her started?"

Eric.

Hi Eric , sorry to here your predicament , hope you get sorted

Maybe you need Aircooled
Andy

eric wrote:

Anyway, talking about engines, I was on my way to fetch a newspaper the other morning and looking up to the high-rise block of flats saw our local Iranian on his 6th floor balcony vigorously flapping a rug, so I shouted up saying "Hey, Abdul, having trouble getting her started?"

Eric.

So... idiotic driver and racist? brilliant.

hope your van never starts again.

Oliver

ojsmith wrote:

eric wrote:

Anyway, talking about engines, I was on my way to fetch a newspaper the other morning and looking up to the high-rise block of flats saw our local Iranian on his 6th floor balcony vigorously flapping a rug, so I shouted up saying "Hey, Abdul, having trouble getting her started?"

Eric.

So... idiotic driver and racist? brilliant.

hope your van never starts again.

Oliver

here we go

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Don't worry 1664, it's only a commercial.

Eric.

Hey Eric

A couple of things here.

You say it was on LPG when it stopped, yes ?

If it has a mechanical fuel pump, and you switched to petrol, if it's anything like mine it will take a lot of cranking before the fuel starts to get to the cylinders so that might be why the plugs looked dry to the AA man E D I T = I just noticed yours is injection so it might not be the same as switching to petrol on a carb jobby - ( LPG does not wet the plugs of course )

Anyway, is it running yet !!


p.s. - I don't think that joke was racist, I told it to a friend of mine who is from Libya and he thought it was dead funny (and everyone in our office laughed too)

ojsmith wrote:

So... idiotic driver and racist? brilliant.

hope your van never starts again.

Oliver

So what's racist about it?

ojsmith wrote:

eric wrote:

Anyway, talking about engines, I was on my way to fetch a newspaper the other morning and looking up to the high-rise block of flats saw our local Iranian on his 6th floor balcony vigorously flapping a rug, so I shouted up saying "Hey, Abdul, having trouble getting her started?"

Eric.

So... idiotic driver and racist? brilliant.

hope your van never starts again.

Oliver

This I have to hear! Ok please explain to a dumb English man what did Eric say that was racist? Break it down for me?

Nowt Tim...He was Iranian and his name was Abdul and he had a carpet...if eric didn't know him how would he know he was Iranian???? .Mark

pocolow wrote:Nowt Tim...He was Iranian and his name was Abdul and he had a carpet...if eric didn't know him how would he know he was Iranian???? .Mark

He knew he was Iranian because as he's stated Abdul is there local Iranian!!!

eric wrote:Anyway, talking about engines, I was on my way to fetch a newspaper the other morning and looking up to the high-rise block of flats saw our local Iranian on his 6th floor balcony vigorously flapping a rug, so I shouted up saying "Hey, Abdul, having trouble getting her started?"

Eric.

Blooming typical tho some one uses a non english name he must be a racist and hung out to dry!!!

On another note did he get the carpet going ??

jamesc76 wrote:On another note did he get the carpet going ??

doubt it.......................




Aircooled

Ghost:- No word from my garage yet, but that's no surprise for being an MOT tester, he's aways very busy.

There were in fact 2 reasons for my original post:-
1/ To glean from your accumulated knowledge/ideas a better understanding of what makes my bus tick, so that when Andrew of the garage reports back to me with either good or bad news, I can converse with him without sounding like an utter buffoon (no chance of that tho).

2/ To serve as a warning, with all this flooding about, to other folk not to be tempted like me. I have encountered many deep puddles along several local BOATS (byways open to all traffic) in my Syncro, without any problems in the past. I believe therefore, the simple difference in my view is SPEED.

Eric.
BTW. Just watched the News for the Deaf on BBC 24. The woman signing gave up after 3 attempts at Cockermouth.

eric wrote: 2/ To serve as a warning, with all this flooding about, to other folk not to be tempted like me. I have encountered many deep puddles along several local BOATS (byways open to all traffic) in my Syncro, without any problems in the past. I believe therefore, the simple difference in my view is SPEED.

Eric.

And I'm flippin glad you did.....there was a puddle of GENEROUS proportions, with no pedestrians in sight....and I was oh soooooooooo tempted.....then I remembered your thread, and drove round it......

Thankyou for letting me learn from your mistake! That's what we do here - learn from others.

Em
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