Hey Colin, I would before assuming any equipment failure such as SPICA, look at the gas. Has the car been sitting for awhile? Water may have contaminated the tank throwing off the CO, or the gas itself may have gone bad.
Use whatever you got in there, then fill it with a couple of gallons of high octane fuel. Even air plane fuel would work purchased from your local airport! Do this the morning of testing and don't fill the tank because junk on the inside of the tank will mix with the new gas. And don't put any octane booster products in. Just straight gas. Alfa tanks get really bad on the inside. There are places that will restore tanks from the inside out, cutting them in half and redoing them. You may want to consider doing that. Good luck. John Palumbo Manheim, PA ------Original Message------ From: alfa-digest To: [email protected] Sent: Aug 8, 2011 12:44 PM Subject: alfa-digest V10 #2462 alfa-digest Monday, August 8 2011 Volume 10 : Number 2462 Forum for Discussion of Alfa Romeos, etc. Richard Welty <[email protected]> Digest Coordinator Contents: [alfa] The Smog saga begins again.... [alfa] Giulietta Shift Knob Removal Alfa Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/alfa/ Send submissions to [email protected] Send administrative requests to [email protected] To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to alfa-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 23:46:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Colin Talcroft <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] The Smog saga begins again.... I was very disappointed that my 1978 Alfa Spider failed smog in CA yesterday. I inherited the car six years ago. It failed its first smog (in my possession)miserably, four years ago. Eventually, that was corrected with a new catalytic converter, after which it passed with numbers so low, the man testing it doubted his equipment. Next smog, two years ago, also passed fine, with good numbers. This time, HC very low at 25 and 20 ppm (max allowed is 415 and 365 ppm) and NO low at 59 and 52 ppm (max is 1396 and 1256), but CO is in the gross polluter range, at 5.04 and 5.03 (max is 1.41 and 1.21). What baffles me is that this car has had only about 4,000 miles on it since the new converter (and a top-end engine rebuild), in September 2005. Why would it suddenly go so wrong? Any ideas anyone? What strategies would you suggest? Any help much appreciated. Thanks Colin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 12:43:14 -0400 From: "Norm 2Bs" <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] Giulietta Shift Knob Removal Thank you Delmas, Mike & Doug for your suggestions. Maybe one of you, or others on the lists can look at the images attached. This LOOKS like the kind of shift lever that pushes down to unlock reverse. It isn't. But, there is rotational play of the slotted part of the knob base on the stud. The stud doesn't move. Or, at least it hasn't with a drift & hammer. Any ideas? I need to remove the knob to install new boots. Thank in advance. Norm ------------------------------ End of alfa-digest V10 #2462 **************************** Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
