Post by centralvalleygter on Aug 21, 2011 22:42:03 GMT -5
As I have mentioned a few time in my posts, my Bradley is my daily driver at least 9 months of the year. As such i am wearing it out faster than restoring it. One of these days, I'll do some extensive restoration work again.
Yesterday, about half way to my destination a short distance away my Bradley went Waaaaaaaa. Like it ran out of gas. Well actually it did run out of gas. While at first I thought I might have accidentally turned off my emergency electric fuel pump switch, that did not turn out to be the case. A little investigating determined that the EFP simply burned out. Hoofed it home, located a spare pump (I use the universal solid-state type & try to keep an extra handy). Got is installed. Started right up and made several more errands without incident. Life is good again.
However...., today I jumped in the Bradley to get take-out for dinner (after I washed the engine to try to chase down the source of a small, but persistent oil leak), and again got about half-way and Waaaaaa again. This time it wasn't the fuel pump. Sometimes I have had it not start for a few minutes after I wash the engine, but letting it set 15 minutes or so will usually result in successful ignition. No such luck this time. After having my wife tow me home (which she hates to do, doesn't like the slack-tensioning that invariably happens). I did get it started, at least on two cylinders. Don't know yet, but I suspect my problem is a combo of wet electrics and getting something in the fuel line during my roadside repair that has blocked a carb jet.
Guess I'll be driving the VW bus until I get a chance to pull the engine, check the carbs and fix the oil leak (appears to be coming from top, beneath the shroud).
Maybe, I'll install a top center fuel spout while I am at it, so half my life is not spent at service stations nursing gas into the side spout.
My Bradley saga will continue, but will definitely have a short hiatus as we just started school again and I am the newly appointed Chief Administrator, so I don't know when I will have time to get to it (and talk my brother into helping me, as he is much more the engine expert than I).
Until next time.....
Yesterday, about half way to my destination a short distance away my Bradley went Waaaaaaaa. Like it ran out of gas. Well actually it did run out of gas. While at first I thought I might have accidentally turned off my emergency electric fuel pump switch, that did not turn out to be the case. A little investigating determined that the EFP simply burned out. Hoofed it home, located a spare pump (I use the universal solid-state type & try to keep an extra handy). Got is installed. Started right up and made several more errands without incident. Life is good again.
However...., today I jumped in the Bradley to get take-out for dinner (after I washed the engine to try to chase down the source of a small, but persistent oil leak), and again got about half-way and Waaaaaa again. This time it wasn't the fuel pump. Sometimes I have had it not start for a few minutes after I wash the engine, but letting it set 15 minutes or so will usually result in successful ignition. No such luck this time. After having my wife tow me home (which she hates to do, doesn't like the slack-tensioning that invariably happens). I did get it started, at least on two cylinders. Don't know yet, but I suspect my problem is a combo of wet electrics and getting something in the fuel line during my roadside repair that has blocked a carb jet.
Guess I'll be driving the VW bus until I get a chance to pull the engine, check the carbs and fix the oil leak (appears to be coming from top, beneath the shroud).
Maybe, I'll install a top center fuel spout while I am at it, so half my life is not spent at service stations nursing gas into the side spout.
My Bradley saga will continue, but will definitely have a short hiatus as we just started school again and I am the newly appointed Chief Administrator, so I don't know when I will have time to get to it (and talk my brother into helping me, as he is much more the engine expert than I).
Until next time.....
