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Bloody drama's today, somewhere I picked up a belly full of bad fuel.
Filled up saturday night, drove to Berrima and back with no problems
and over to Wetherall Park to arrange a heater for Milkshake, on the way home home she spat
and was going nowhere. Damn left my tools at home.
Rang the NRMA, busy today 2 hour wait, shit, quick call to Fank Tedesco and he rescued me in 10 minutes.
And only charged me for a little extra fuel, $10, can't complain about that.
Rang NRMA, don't bother its fixed.
I first thought I'd run ouf of fuel but a check of the distance I'd travelled indicated I should have 1/4 of a tank
as the fuel guage showed, and I did.
So with some shopping on the way home she ran like a clock.
I stopped at the servo and filled up, got within 3/4 of a kilometre of home and she spat again.
Ok I know the problem now, I've stirred up the bad fuel that was left filling up.
Rang the NRMA again and requested help, 60 minute wait, ok that's better.
The patrolman arrived in 20 minutes, got out of the ute with some puter gizzimo in his hand
and said what sort of car is this? (God this don't sound good)
Its a 1961 Holden Special Mate I have some bad fuel and a blockage can you lend me a screwdriver and I'll fix it in 5 minutes.
Sorry I have to get a truck, mate I just live up the road.
Sorry not allowed to fix it.
So I have to spend the rest of the week draining a full tank and blowing out the fuel lines.
Not happy....

The joys of old Holden's....

It should'nt take "a week" to fix just that Wayne..it's a half hour job at worst!! Remember these old cars have drain plugs in the bottom of the tank & it's only a couple'o hose clamps to undo and then a bit of compressed air blown through. EASY!

Scotty.

was the tank cleaned to start with (before you started driving the car after it sat for a long time? ) what i usually do is fit a filter before the fuel pump and carry spare filters and the tools to change them, try to get clear filters so you can also keep an eye on what's inside it

DOH!!!!! I feel ya pain Wayne... Hope it all works out

All sorted, fuel pump.

SunnyTim wrote:sweet! the ore miles and little things to fix now the better

Yep project Milkshake Shakedown....

bumper wrote:Looks good mate, well done

Brett, show ya dad, a good portion of the seats I got off ya are in milkshake.....

great looking car wayne. great to see the seats worked out ok. cheers shane

Couple of additions to Milkshake

Got Russell to paint and we attached a Coolaride Sunvisor today....





I found a AWA Cruiser 6 Radio for $75 that works, Installed that last week...



Now I can listen to the radio with that 1960's sound..Snap..Crackle and Pop....

Cool ,you sure its not your ears...

Very nice, mate

yep visor is a huge improvement now wasn't it worth those holes

Looks great. I love the am sound from an original radio.
702 abc is my choice.

Looking good.