On the road repair to get home

[mhsprecher]

I took my roadster to a show last weekend. It started running badly, backfiring, etc, losing power on the way home. Two of us were heading back from the show and stopped a few times. Checked timing, point gap, junction box, rotor.distributor gap, carb adjustment. We were going to check the float level and were taking the carb off when the problem became apparent-broken flange on intake manifold, so the carb was only held on by one bolt.

I was ready to call AAA as I did not have much more than wire and tools to repair, but my traveling companion, Rolling Scupture on the barn, pulled some RTV and electrical tape out of his tool collection. The RTV sealed the gasket area and then wrapped the joint between the carb and the intake manifold with electrical tape and I made it the rest of the 20 miles home without incident. It started backfiring again, but I just opened up the GAV to provide more fuel and off we went! I guess RTV and electrical tape should be in every tool box, but I didn't have any with me this time. THAT won't happen again!