Perhaps unwisely, and still woefully unprepared, I got up to drive to work on Wednesday. (Tuesday was a train day to Staines, Weds was a drive round the corner to Bracknell)
Had awful trouble starting again, but got it together a bit quicker this time. More choke to start and ease off gradually.
Found lot's of excuses to go to the coffee point to look out of the window that day.
Had a little drive at lunch to make sure starting wasn't really a problem. Realised that if she didn't start I was stuck at work. This brought back memories of the early days at work in unreliable cars and often needing bump starts or jump leads. Hadn't considered that aspect ... hmmmm not sure I like that!
Need to make sure I maintain this old girl properly.
On that note, that evening had a look under the hood to see if everything was at least looking in order. Mostly all OK, but noticed the the fuel line joint from fixed hose to flexible hose was leaking. The photo is POST-repair, but basically the whole fuel line was wanging about as it was not fixed to the chassis as it should have been.
The bracket was still there and the fixing bolt was nice and free, so it was easy to put back things as they should be. And nip the jubilee clips back up. As this is retrospective, again I can say that this seems to have solved that! All dry since.
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