Hi everyone!

[Timind]

Hi,
I posted a few weeks back looking for potential purchase advice. Despite the warnings from the more experienced members, I decided to go ahead and buy the car. It's a 1990 model with a blue interior and it's a bit of a rust bucket at the back.
My son and I have bought it as a project to help him learn about all aspects of car repair... and I think this will cover them all!
Within an hour of getting it home, he'd managed to get both headlights moving again, and given it a clean
Next jobs are to get the fuel pump either moving again or replaced (it just clunks when 12v is applied to the plug by the gear lever) and then start taking the bumpers and fairings off so we can see the extent of bodywork it will need... then it's on to brakes, suspension and steering, a bit of electrical fault finding and then it'll be as good as new!

[jimi]

Not unknown for the fuel pump to seize through lack of use, since the last MOT was 9 years ago its obviously been sitting a while and its not surprising the pump has seized. Might be worth (if possible) giving the pump a quick kick with reverse polarity (at the tank connector) that might get it moving, other than that unfortunately you'll have to drop the tank to get the fuel pump out.
The mechanical/ electrical BGB's are available to download here https://mr2oc.co.uk/downloads/technical-stuff/mk2.html

[Timind]

Thanks, I've tried reversing the polarity many times, it clunks once each rwverse so there is a bit of movement, although not enough to get it spinning.
I've chucked 5k of fuel in and will keep giving it a zap every now and again to see if the combination of fuel vapour and small movements will free it off and save me having to drop the tank.