Saturday, 1 October 2011

Basic Mechanics

I don't even think that what I solved today comes even close to to what the title discribes but it just sounds good. As I think I told before I have a Triumph 2500 and it runs on both petrol and LPG (Liquid Petrol Gas), that was untill a couple of weeks ago (it stopped running on petrol). The car didn't get any petrol anymore and I could only drive it on LPG. Now since I am dutch and LPG is far cheaper then petrol I didn't really care that much in the beginning. But since the wheater is starting to become colder it is getting harder to start and drive around on LPG. So I decided to try and find out why it didn't run on petrol anymore. As my dad explained to me once it couldn't be that hard and there where only a couple of things I needed to check. It basically came down to either the fuel pump wasn't working (which wasnt likely), or the gas line was clogged (very likely but where). So I unscrewed the gas line and blew in to it to see if that would do anything (I know you're better of sucking but just in case I blew first becausse I didn't want my mouth full of fuel). And yes this was the case, now I only needed to find out where it was clogged (and hope that it was somewhere I could reach it, since the supermarket's parking lot is my garage and I don't have too many tools). I remembered that me and my dad unclugged the fuel line before this summer and made it a bit shorter to make it easier on the fuel pump, and it had been running fine after that. But I have been driving around some heavy car parts on the back seat and this is where the fuel line runs through or I should say under. So I lifted the backseat and emmidiatley saw a kink in the line. I was quite happy to finds this out since it was way easier then a clog in the gas tank. So I reposisioned the fuel line and reconnected it to the fuel pump, turned the ignition on and yes it started on petrol again.
I know for most people this will seem like the easiest thing ever, but I was quite happy that I fixed this little problem myself.

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