I would just like to say

[kevstar]

Thort cars like that had a water separator in the fool filter. Do appreciate that if someone put a gallon or two in it wouldn't save it.

Had they had a falling out with someone?

20L apparently someone filled up his jerry can with water & someone else poured it into his motor.

 

[kevstar]

Nice n sunny today, still a chilly wind. Working outside which is nice.

 

[DanClarke]

Only used to hold 4 and a half gallons

You might be right, the book says for a 1275 the tank holds 33ltrs and at 4.54l/G that's 7.2 Gallons.

 

[landowner]

You might be right, the book says for a 1275 the tank holds 33ltrs and at 4.54l/G that's 7.2 Gallons.

You're probably right
Early cars were 4.5 gallons then the tank was made bigger for the 1275 GT mid seventies, I think all Minis got bigger tank a few years later

 

[DanClarke]

Re the Facet, we discussed this a bit when you were having the fuel pump woes. I was thinking more of a flexi behind the engine just before the pump.
You can always cut the metal pipe to put a flexi in, jubilee clips will hold it just fine. If you are worried about leaks you can put an olive on or near the end or run a ring of solder around it, then heat the flexi in hot water and shove it over that before securing it with a jubbly clip. Or you can flare the end if you have the tool. But honestly, I'd just use one, or if you prefer, two jubblys.

Obvs I have forgotten, but there must be a bit of flexi somewhere to stop engine movement cracking any solid pipe connecting tank to engine/pump/carb.

Yes, we have a longish flexi from the end of the fixed piping from the tank to the inlet of the pump. I will find a place to insert a filter..... in due course. Now the smell of petrol is resolved I am looking to install a thermostat as the next pressing issue, although... I just started it up and I think the "not charging" red light is glowing faintly which is a bit more "dodgy".

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Hello all.
Local Indy confirms box needs changing. The one going in will be a rebuilt one that has done 50k miles. But he is so rammed he cannot do it before the 15th of April, so W threw a fit, especially as he doesn't want me heading straight off into the wild blue yonder without having driven it around for a while, ie. a few days, to ensure no leaks, all seals hold etc etc. Which I think is very responsible of him.
Two new tyres ordered for Monday, General Grabbers. Doing only 4.5 k miles a year i cannot justify replacing the Goodyear A/Ts like for like.

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Yes, we have a longish flexi from the end of the fixed piping from the tank to the inlet of the pump. I will find a place to insert a filter..... in due course. Now the smell of petrol is resolved I am looking to install a thermostat as the next pressing issue, although... I just started it up and I think the "not charging" red light is glowing faintly which is a bit more "dodgy".

If it goes away at about 1000 revs that should be OK. do you have a dynamo and a regulator?
Wow, if so, real rave from the grave.
My first two Minis did.
It could just be alternator or dynamo brush (es).

Last time I worked on such a system was in 1978 when a mate in France's Minivan, that he had driven to France from Glasgow in, started having charging problems. At the time Minis were quite rare in Lille, but I knew of a Mini Countryman that had been abandoned on a city street. so we went and had a wee peek!
In those days you could open the bonnet by hand. So, yep there was the voltage regulator, so a few minutes with a screwdriver had it out and away.
Fitted it and his problem went away.
Up till that point I had helped him start the car when he wanted to go to work by pushing his from behind with the rubber over-riders on my Renault 6. I could see his ignition light through all the screens/windows so as soon as it went out I knew his engine had started. That winter was one of the coldest on record, which didn't help.

Looking back, I didn't have a meter or anything. Not even a Haynes manual as it wasn't my car! Have no idea how I diagnosed the fault!
The van had belonged to a coal merchant and the springs were non-existent.
My car went into the garage one day and I had a date with a new girl that evening so I asked my mate if I could borrow his van. "Nae problem!"
Said girl's eyes popped out at the sight of this blue and white Minivan. So she got in and off we set.
At a set of traffic lights when they turned green I let the clutch in and promptly went flying into the back of the van!
By now Mademoiselle was wetting herself laughing! So I drove it very carefully to the club and then back to her place.

I think we only ever found one bolt to rebolt the seat back to a flange on the front of the cross member. So I think we used stiff wire for the other one! Matey had no clue about mechanics!
It had an 8-track in it with about 3 tapes. The "best " one was the greatest hits of Glenn Campbell, so pretty soon we were all word perfect on Wichita Lineman, By the time I get to Phoenix etc.
(Me and another Scots mate, Liam, harmonising while rolling around in the back! (Ooh Matron!!) ).

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Well that's it, yessdi's theatre trip was the last of the season. As usual before the performance we had lunch in Cote brasserie. We are regulars there.
We pushed the boat out knowing it was the last one, and didn't limit ourselves to what we ate and drank on price, within reason.
But I had at all times in my eyeshot a couple. Late 30s early 40s.
They sat down with their phones in their hands. They sat facing one another, only they weren't, they were facing their phones. They didn't even look up when the waiter took their order. They ordered a small glass of prosecco each. Then shared a dish of calamari, still on their phones, which every now and then they would put down, but only for a few seconds. I was so disgusted I cannot tell you what their main course was, I had to force myself to not look at them.
I and W wondered what the flip they had gone out to (sparse) lunch for, as, for us, a lot of the pleasure of dining out is to be able to enjoy one another's company. At the end of the meal there was still a bit of prosecco in each glass!

So lunch was lovely. The play we saw was Murder on the Orient Express.
Yes, quite, what on earth could we have got out of it that we didn't already know?
But what was totally amazing was how the stage was set. They had part of a railway carriage, three or more compartments that was joined by others from the sides, then they moved away and the central part span 180 degs, then each part of it opened up, and then each bit separated and this just went on and on. If ever there was an Oscar for amazing set building, design and movement, this production deserved it. Some of it was down to having a revolving stage, but honestly it was minor in comparison to the massively accurate building of the separate bits that connected together. At just one point a bit got slightly stuck but the stage crew sorted it out pronto. No wonder they banged on about "no filming, no photos etc"
Never been so impressed and I have seen stuff like Starlight Express. (And NO I didn't want to, it was the choice of our hosts on a trip to Lunnen to stay with them for a weekend!!)

 

[GRATCH]

Well that's it, yessdi's theatre trip was the last of the season. As usual before the performance we had lunch in Cote brasserie. We are regulars there.
We pushed the boat out knowing it was the last one, and didn't limit ourselves to what we ate and drank on price, within reason.
But I had at all times in my eyeshot a couple. Late 30s early 40s.
They sat down with their phones in their hands. They sat facing one another, only they weren't, they were facing their phones. They didn't even look up when the waiter took their order. They ordered a small glass of prosecco each. Then shared a dish of calamari, still on their phones, which every now and then they would put down, but only for a few seconds. I was so disgusted I cannot tell you what their main course was, I had to force myself to not look at them.
I and W wondered what the flip they had gone out to (sparse) lunch for, as, for us, a lot of the pleasure of dining out is to be able to enjoy one another's company.

So lunch was lovely. The play we saw was Murder on the Orient Express.
Yes, quite, what on earth could we have got out of it that we didn't already know?
But what was totally amazing was how the stage was set. They had part of a railway carriage, three or more compartments that was joined by others from the sides, then they moved away and the central part span 180 degs, then each part of it opened up, and then each bit separated and this just went on and on. If ever there was an Oscar for amazing set building, design and movement, this production deserved it. Some of it was down to having a revolving stage, but honestly it was minor in comparison to the massively accurate building of the separate bits that connected together. At just one point a bit got slightly stuck but the stage crew sorted it out pronto.
Never been so impressed and I have seen stuff like Starlight Express. (And NO I didn't want to, it was the choice of our hosts on a trip to Lunnen to stay with them for a weekend!!)

Maybe the couple on their phones were desperately trying to not catch your eye, so you wouldn't bore them to death with tales of how brilliant you are at everything and are the bestest ever, people often say how good you are, all the time, your the bigliest person in the whole world.