Yet another holiday used in the wonderful pursuit of British Sports Car Maintenance.

We started with my neighbor Malcom (the previous owner of my Spider)….

We got his 78 Spitfire going after about 2 years of storage. We also got his 80 TR7 at least to turn over… no slack miracle there.

Then we turned our attention to the Spider that has yet to start. After finding problems with damn near every bit of the ignition system, now we whittled the gremlins down to discover a fuel problem. The fuel itself was drained and replaced. But we also discovered that fuel was getting to the pump, but not OUT of the pump.

The troubling part was that the fuel pump did not match what was in the Haynes manual, official British Leyland shop manual or could be found in the Vic Brit catalog. ::sigh::

So here are some pics of the mysterious fuel pump…

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