Skip: OK, thanks. I'm going out of town this weekend (NOT in the Alfa L) and won't have a chance to check that until Monday eve. I'll let you know what I find.
Dave From: skip [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:52 PM To: [email protected]; Alfa Digest Subject: Re:[alfa] Spyder Engine quit Dave and all, I ran into this on a series 3 Spider a few years ago. There is a plug in connector behind the dash, below the ignition switch and above your right knee that can come unplugged. I forget the color of the wire but just make sure all the connectors up under there are plugged in solid and see if that fixes it. Skip Patnode '67 Duetto Normally in Norfolk, Va. but now at the convention in Toronto > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:51:08 -0400 > From: "Dave Martin" <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] Spyder Engine quit > > Fellow Alfisti: > The Alfa in question is an 87 Spyder Quad. > A few times over the past 3 or 4 weeks, while motoring on down the road, > it > has, shall I say, "hiccupped"? - engine quit for a beat then immediately > restarted. All the idiot lights would be on for a few seconds, just as if > it were started from completely off. Kinda hard to troubleshoot when > later > all runs ok. > But while driving this morning, it quit. Engine just stopped. I was able > to > coast to a spot in a parking lot (fortunately, I was only a half-mile from > home). Turned key off then on - nothing at all - no idiot lights, no > starter. Headlights work, so there are electrons somewhere, but the > electric windows do not work. Any thoughts as to what to check? Some > relay? Which one, where is it? -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
