fuel light bingo!

well it'd help a lot if we had one, a fuel light. we don't. remember before i said we were running rich? well we thought we fixed it. the car went 150km and the needle went from nearly full to nearly empty, then after some tinkering we went another 200km until it ran out of gas.

so we had to push it out of the a/w parking lot to the safeway gas bar and hilariously realised neither of us were in the car to apply the brakes.

put in another $15 and it should have given us nearly half a tank, but the needle didn't move. so keeping track of km we set out driving thinking we should get at least 300km. well i was going up columbia today with mitch off to his house and after 150km morris started sputtering to a hault. some fancy driving we made it to mitch's house thinking it was something much worse than running out of gas.

car ran completely out of fuel right outside his door, and we ended up coasting down the parking lot and down summit to springhill, hit a red and mitch pushed it the next 2 blocks to the supersave gas station.

put in another $15 and the needle didn't move. also nearly impossible to start the car running. the attendants were looking at us like the car was totally broke, and after about 15 minutes of trying to start the thing, about the same time i think they were getting fed up, mitch roared it to life and we spun out of there.

it was pretty awesome seeing what we thought was a compeltely dead morris triumphantly rocket back to life in front of a small crowd of gas station workers that gathered to see what was up.

-steve