At 4:33 AM +0000 9/15/09, alfa-digest wrote:
With a length of hose attached to the return end of the fuel rail and
a new, charged battery, you should be able to make the fuel pump pump
out the tank contents by turning on the ignition and gently opening
the air intake flapper door (upstream from the air cleaner.)
Methinks the L-Jet system on a Spider is unlike that on a V6 in that
opening the airflow meter flap will NOT switch the fuel pump on.
(Instead it relies on those sensors on the bellhousing to know that
the engine is turning, and the ECU switches the fuel pump.) But I'm
sure there's a relay you could jumper power to to run the fuel pump
if you wanted to drain the tank that way.
At 4:33 AM +0000 9/15/09, alfa-digest wrote:
If you buy one of those reconditioning chargers I mentioned previously, the
battery can probably be salvaged. But no guarantees about that. What I DO
KNOW is that if you use one of those reconditioners on a battery that is
going to be stored, it will preserve the battery. They are also good for
revitalizing batteries that have been abused (e.g., the lights left on until
the battery is drained... Not that any of us have ever done that :P).
Batteries are cheap. (Not really, but cheaper than being stranded on
the side of the road when you need to be somewhere else.) I always
recommend that batteries be replaced preemptively every five years.
I wouldn't bother trying to salvage a battery that's likely useless,
and certainly nearing the end of its useful life in any case.
My forty lira,
Joe
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