It was a complicated day. We had tickets to the recording of Harry Hill's TV Burp, courtesy of TV Recordings, which necessitated much planning and several cars. In brief, we left KGA at work, watched the excellent recording and then headed home via work to pick up KGA.
The engine started reluctantly. Then stalled. Then started reluctantly. Etc. Blaming a flat battery, we did some jump-starting with the trusty Rover. No dice there, so eventually we called the AA.
They arrived quickly and diagnosed a dodgy fuel filter. A previous owner had fitted an inline filter which was heavily clogged, and the AA man recommended a new filter and new fuel lines to boot. He cleared the carb and to get me home, and with a job for the weekend.
Seemingly inline filters come in "large" or "small". KGA went for large, although it was a tight fit and the extra lengths on each side of the filter had to be trimmed. To complicate things further, the Amazon takes different sizes of fuel line coming into the pump and going out, so after fixing it looked like this:
With that done the engine sounded smoother and we were off again.
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