Another of my fishy stories about how crap professionals are and how brilliant amateurs are (not). Anyhow, the picture below showing the top of the fuel tank sender unit, perhaps speaks for itself. Actually, I learnt something completely trivial the other day which is quite interesting. Have you ever wondered what the ¬ symbol is at the top left-hand corner of your keyboard, just below ESC? Its a symbol used in logic to mean 'not', along with lots of P's and Q's, which is where the phrase "Mind your P's and Q's" comes from! Of course, two nots cancel out, e.g. this car is ¬ ¬ red.
Just like the top of the sender unit above is ¬ white but now its ¬ ¬ white, hah!
To be honest it is slightly grey where I rubbed in some Oyltite because there were some cracks at the connection to the hose from the pump. There is also a distinct lack of a filter on this fuel sender, but I read that is OK because it gets blocked easily so as long as we put a filter where the non-return valve is, we will be OK (ffffmmmffff).
Coolio, so we put it back together with a dodgy metal hose-clip.
Now, pop in a new-looking fuel filter where the non-return valve was (looked like metal but it turned out to be chromed plastic).
Curses, it starts!! Petrol can be seen bubbling merrily through the filter as the engine idles away.
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OK, so we've undone everything the garage did to it over the 6 months it was in their possession and now we need to cautiously test it to see if the stalling problem recurs. However, that could be interesting as the MOT ran out 6 weeks ago, arf, and the rear brakes are binding due to lack of use in the lockdown!!
Anyway, what I need to do now is to check the connections around the petrol filler and overflow tank because I have this idea, probably wrongly, that if something was connected wrongly there, it might cause the sucking-back effect which the garage referred to. Removing the trim panels inside the boot will also allow me to finish painting the floor. When that's done, I'll be onto the rear brakes. Finally, another achievement today - someone dumped a great-looking cupboard by the dustbins at the garage, so I've got a new storage accessory for the Ness-cave.
Actually, I put it where I had to clean up rat-pooh which appeared during the lockdown when the poor critters raided about 5 year's worth of rubbish bags at the back, but they are all God's creatures. They got in where someone broke the ventilation brick you can see on the right.
perhaps causing a sucking back effect or something.
