I’m annoyed that I forgot the camera tonight. I’d picked up an OE clutch slave from ECP for £24.56 yesterday, and fitting it takes about 45 minutes from start to finish tonight. I don’t even need to bleed it at its valve – a few pumps of the pedal and some manipulation of the blue tube shown below sees some air bubbles emerge and produce a nice firm pedal.

I take it for a test drive and that goes fine, so upon my return I have another look for this fuel leak. There’s certainly a strong smell of fuel, and a bit more cleaning and tube squeezing reveals that the large breather tubes from both the main (under the rear seats) tank and the long range (in the boot) tank have expired and need replacing.

Each hose is about 20mm in overall diameter, looking at the ETK a hose that’s 14×20 sounds right (14mm internal diameter). Thing is, I think I need two of them and they’re about £20 each – I wonder where else I can source some…

Finally while rooting around in the boot I find some water under the battery tray and there’s obviously been some bodgery going on around there. Further investigation required at the weekend.

In conclusion then, not really back on the road due to those fuel hoses being perished, but I’m confident I’ve found the problem at least.