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[Mini_the_Minx]

I go out to Minx this morning and it was taking awhile for her to fire up, she was turning but that was it. Finally got her started and she was idling very low but I just put it down to the cold and damp. So I'm going along and as soon as I began to slow down, she died. So I started her up and and ot carried on. Everytime I slowed down the revs would drop and she would stall. So I pulled the ckoke out and left it on, she didn't stall but the revs still dropped lots.

I go down a back road to get home past an industrial estate and as I stopped on a hill, she died again and this time, refused to fire up. So a bunch of lads in a van kindly helped me push her up the hill and into a lay by. There I waited for my other half to turn up with some tools. Popped open the fuel pump and it was full of nasty deposits and so was the carb, bummer.

We got some of it out and drove her home. So now I have to go back to the garage and clean her carb and stick a fuel filter on.

Has anybody else had problems with deposits?

Oh the joys of Mini ownership!!

[Bean]

Aw, sorry to hear it! S'awful, isn't it?

We went on a road trip in Wales and unfortunately Reggie had a huge blockage in the carb - Just bits of dirt/rust kicked up from the bottom of the fuel tank.

We got him home and put an in-line fuel filter on him - Haven't had any problems since then!

[Mini_the_Minx]

Hopefully a filter will iron out the rest of the blips in the fuel saga.

Would a touch of redex help or not?

[JohnGordon]

I had a very similar problem but i had got dirt in the float chamber and it was causing the overflow to constantly let out fuel while the engine was running. Again I cleaned it off and put an in-line filter on the fuel line and it's been fine since

[Mini_the_Minx]

I had a very similar problem but i had got dirt in the float chamber and it was causing the overflow to constantly let out fuel while the engine was running. Again I cleaned it off and put an in-line filter on the fuel line and it's been fine since

Did you find she was using more fuel than usual??

Minx is going through a fair amount of fuel atm.

[JohnGordon]

I had a very similar problem but i had got dirt in the float chamber and it was causing the overflow to constantly let out fuel while the engine was running. Again I cleaned it off and put an in-line filter on the fuel line and it's been fine since

Did you find she was using more fuel than usual??

Minx is going through a fair amount of fuel atm.

yeah it was, it didn't help as at the time my tank sender was knackered! but it was basically puttin too much fuel in to the carb then spitting it out again all the time the engine was running

[rozzer!]

i have had this, inline filter cured teh problem partially. wasnt 100% tho.