Jonny5
28-08-2012, 11:55
Well its a lovely day so i thought i would take the 5 out for a drive, its not moved since ND so took a little while and a bit of choke to start. Reversed her out the garage and everything was normal, AFRs giving the usual readings.
I left her running for about 5 minutes and noticed a whispy white smoke from under the bonnet! :eek: Popped the bonnet and it stank of fuel and the whole carb on the drivers side was soaked. It was pooling fuel on the inlet manifold and dripping on to the exhaust manifold hence the smoke.
The carb had a full rebuild three years ago and has not been disturbed recently, i have never had any issues before like this. She ran faultlessly on the 120mile round trip to blyton too, so baffled as to what could have caused this :scratch: apart from the car being a temperamenal french bitch! :cry:
I left her running for about 5 minutes and noticed a whispy white smoke from under the bonnet! :eek: Popped the bonnet and it stank of fuel and the whole carb on the drivers side was soaked. It was pooling fuel on the inlet manifold and dripping on to the exhaust manifold hence the smoke.
The carb had a full rebuild three years ago and has not been disturbed recently, i have never had any issues before like this. She ran faultlessly on the 120mile round trip to blyton too, so baffled as to what could have caused this :scratch: apart from the car being a temperamenal french bitch! :cry: