McCARTNEY LIVES

He's a Beetle of course. These fun loving criminals never die on us, they just need a bit of time to be reassured it will be okay. It's taken 2 1/2 weeks to source and fix the problem and after several days of hard graft, little sleep and many, many swear words McCartney's heart bypass operation had been successful and he roared into life!

McCartney is happy & excited to get back on the road.

What was the problem you ask?

Fuel pump. Basically no fuel was getting to the car and it was extremely frustrating. Although, no job is too large for Caught The VW Bug and we managed to source a new fuel pump, fit it and voila! 

"It worked right?" Wrong. This was the first problem, the fuel line had recently split so that was re-routed 3 times to assure enough fuel was reaching the car and gravity wasn't interfering with the fuel flow. 

"Once that was done, it worked right? "Wrong. We took the fuel tank out, cleaned that and placed it back in the chassis as the fuel pipe might have been trapped.

"Sounds like a tough job, but it's fixed and it worked right?" Wrong. 

It turns out we put the fuel line on the wrong end of the pump, so it blew the petrol away from the carburetor and the engine and not the reverse.

"Oh you tit." 

We can all make rookie mistakes and yes, even the best of us make critical errors like that. However, he runs better than before with the fuel flow vastly improved. Lets hope the FIA don't disqualify us.

Its always a learning process but I am just happy my boy is working again. McCartney will be heading to Burgess Hill to visit VW Heritage's monthly meets, who wrote about us at the beginning of the month for his test run. Also, watch this space for Doris' journey to the Ace Café.

Happy to get him running again!