Driving home tonight from a night on the town with my old lady. Suddenly hit a massive bump in the road, and jolted the car badly. A few seconds later the car dies, and I coast it into a parking lot. I look things over, trying to find loose connections ect.... but the car won't turn over. Eventually a cop arrives and gives me a lift back home. I head over to Wally World and buy a can of ether and head back over to the scene of the car problem. I have my old lady turn the car over while I spray it in the intake and the car fires right up. I check all the fuel lines and nothing appears to be pinched, I look for loose connections on the gas tank. But nothing appears to be out of whack, so i'm guessing the fuel pump took a crap on me. Why why why https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif Time to order some parts from GB and try to fix the problem.

isnt the rx7 supposed to die..and the mini stays alive

Yeah thats what I told my girlfriend. "we're driving the unreliable car to fix the reliable car"

It was a bad bump. As soon as I hit it, I said OH ****. The mini is bouncy enough as it is, don't need to hit speed bump sized mounds in the road doing 50mph.

if you bounced hard a bunch of little things could of happened to cause that but i dont think anything majorly bad. although any problem is a bad thing



kevin.

hrmm...thats strange. ill ask my dad wha he thinks caused it (his first car was a mini that he went pretty crazy tuning)

o heres a pic of a mini that i always liked

i bet you could park the mini on the back of the pickup https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

I don't know anything about MINIs but it sounds like a fuel cut off switch (for accidents)tripped when you hit the bump before you pay anyone to (fix) the problem look in the owners manual to see if it says anything about it or look in the trunk area for instructions on how to reset it(thats where ford put some of them)

hope this helps you

The fuel cut of switch usually trips on frontal and rear end crashes, and he wouldn't be able to fire it back up without un-tripping the switch, so I think that's out of the question!!!

From asking a few mini experts on the mini forum, there should be an inertia switch that I might have set off. Would make sense I suppose, cause I can't figure out how I could have broke anything by hitting a bad bump. I'm guessing it simple will not allow the fuel or fuel pump to deliver to the intake, so when I sprayed a direct shot of ether into the intake it fired right up. Now I just have to find the switch they are talking about.

Look in the trunk...

do minis have trunks? it might be in the engine bay https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/dunno.gif



i used to drive a 92 taurus, this switch that we're talking about was on the driver's side of the trunk. i went a little fast over some RR tracks once and set it off, took me about an hour to figure out what was going on https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif

FIXED!! Yes the Austin Mini's have trunks,the new BMW's don't really have a trunk. The inertia switch was on the right side of the engine bay up against the firewall. Just a little black button that controls the fuel lines. Ahhh now I know how Vosko feels after getting his car to run smooth because of a wrong setting.

86 Tempo here, switch is in the same place LOL!!! TJ, I need your Keychain Gb info, see thread for details.

https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683329.gif no pistons can fix anything online now all we have to do is get paid https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

i was gonna say, i dont know mini's but it is british, its something electrical



mike

Lol, yes. Lucas has done it again!

ack, my mini is supposed to be here in 2 weeks, its built and supposed to be shipped.



Lets see if ETA is accurate.