There I was, minding my own business, buzzing along at 100 km/h and all of a sudden, the carby was jammed wide open and I was rapidly gathering speed at an alarming rate of knots..........the return spring on the old S.U. carby had broken and the butterfly was jammed wide open.

Managed to get to a service station and took the return spring from the clutch and used it as the carby return spring then used a few rubber bands in place of the clutch return spring.......well, it worked.

Just got to get a new return spring for the S.U carby and all will be back to normal

Hooroo

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Rod
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v607/Rodney/

Well done Rodney

thats nasty

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-jamie-
1963morris 850
1965 solid side van
1994 rover racecar

Nice one...you have to love rubbers...

how long was it at full rev's by the time you were able to knock it back to idle

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

Yes i love rubbers it protect me

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Rodney, you will be in Patty & Selma's dreams tonight.

Doogie

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I won Hay once, here's the pic to prove it..


Hay, it's not about the car, it's not about the venue, it's about the people that come here. Peter Dwyer, Mayor of Hay NSW.

Double springs now, Rodney?

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When it happened, it was dark, raining and about 6 or 7 km/s to the next servo. So I had to drive along with one hand on the ignition key (to keep turning on the electrics and keep going, then turn it off again when the speed got too high) I'm sure this did the car no good at all but at the time it was better than being stranded - plus, I was on my way to my 'other job'.....funeral pick up of deceased persons........so I kind of had to be there and no excuses.

Ah well, everything worked out well in the end (except, you could say, for the poor unfortunate person my partner and I were on our way to collect) for the funeral parlour.

Hooroo

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Rod
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v607/Rodney/

Don't really see the need to rush.....they weren't going anywhere !!!

Unless its the same method as Tow Trucks, you know, first one on the scene

A1

Glad to see that you knew to turn the key off to fix the immediate problem. Some people think that if the throttle sticks you must crash the car.

I once finished a race at Eastern Creek by using the key to slow down.

You didn't have an arguement with the spouse at all that evening?


Not saying anything, it mightn't even be connected.....just a coincidence 'tis all I'm saying.........




(best look at the brake lines yeh?)

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

All I'm saying is that this was one weird night

See ya

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Rod
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v607/Rodney/