Apologies for bringing up this topic before. I promise to ask different questions this time:
The fact that my Spider has been sitting in my garage not running for probably longer than I ever drove it is beginning to drive me nuts. I did at some point attempt to do all the various things folks have suggested to me (except for replacing the gas), but got depressed/dismayed/sidetracked with school. I want to start again. If I say "that crummy Bosch FI in Series 3 Spiders" and "bellcrank fiasco", I'll bet at least a few of you remember what I'm talking about.... I have three simple questions: 1. I do not understand how one siphons gas out of the car. I know how to siphon (having made wine during my college days), but I can't figure how to siphon something I don't want anywhere near my mouth. What do you put it in? Is it highly flammable? Is it corrosive? How do you dispose of it? How do you know how much is in the tank? It occurred to me I might be able to buy some tubing and a turkey baster and maybe get the liquid started into the tube by creating vacuum with the baster. But if you guys have done this before, surely you have tips on the easiest way to do it? 2. I unhooked the battery ground, but this was back in 2005, so I'm assuming there's not much juice there. I want to trickle charge the battery now, but to do so, do I re-hook the battery ground and then hook the charger to the battery and to a place on the chassis, or can I hook up the charger without completing the battery circuit to the car? 3. One of the reasons I stopped trying to figure out why I couldn't get the car running completely in 2005 (it sounded like it was then running on one cylinder) was because Someone Who Shall Go Nameless told me it was hard on the engine to keep starting it/trying to start it when it was running in that condition. Is that true and if so, how do I test the engine's being able to run? Thanks! Tess in Bellevue, WA USA the weather is perfect for top-down driving... -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
