There's a reason my friends who drove MGA's kept the brass hammer used for changing the wire wheels handy- - - - -when the electric pump went wonky, just smack the floor board over the pump ahead of the right rear wheel. Sometimes it would jump-start the pump without even coasting to the side of the road!
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!