Drove the car to work yesterday, and while bombing down the freeway home I had the impression, as I have had before, that it was running rather rich. Subsequently a child by the school yelled at me that "the car smells really bad". Rich, indeed, but it seemed to me that after fixing the filter, the carburetor is behaving a little more predictably, and I gave it a quick adjustment while it was still hot from the freeway. The mixture screw is out just under two turns, which seems right, but what do I know?
Later today, I walked out of the house to get the mail and I could smell gasoline across the yard. There was a big puddle under the Spider, and on a quick look I found the fuel pump intake line had apparently cracked. Between this and the defective fuel filter, it could explain a lot, both the hard starting and the bad smells that so annoy the children. I just vise-gripped the line till I can repair it.
I decided to stick with the 13" BWAs on the car for simplicity and ordered a couple of new tires. One of the existing ones was a victim of the bad alignment, so I'll put the other one on the matching red rim I have for a spare.
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