So, there's an informal british car gathering tomorrow. I had originally planned on driving my explorer (bah, humbug) and then it dawned on me that the blue Jensen Healey does actually run, and is mostly driveable. After a few seconds of jumper cabling she roared to life.... well, perhaps roared is too strong a word, it was more of a wheeze, gumble, well damnit... ok!...
After a few minutes fiddling under the hood, and some liberal use of carb cleaner, she was running. I took a quick heated jaunt around the block (the hardtop was in place, and there's no heat shielding in the car). So far so good. Temperature spikes within a few minuts of returning home.... ahh, there's not enough water in the radiator. To that off and we're good to go. :)
Then one more quick jaunt around the neighborhood... vrooom! (rattle, rattle, clump, thonk) and it appears that she'll at least survive a 10 mile round trip. We'll find out tomorrow how it goes.
Cheers!
Jody
