John, I guess that would have helped with the answers. My Alfa is a 1969 Spider - original. I'll be replacing it with an original 1969 SPICA pump. I have not begun the process. It is easy to procrastinate on something like this, but the Ingram pump is in the mail. The car was running well this past spring, but only after being reset. It would only maintain the settings for a few hundred mile, all of the time running worse as the miles increased. The main issue was stalling on deceleration. Setting the idle abnormally high helped as did shifting into neutral while keeping a foot on the throttle to keep the revs up. After a several hundred mile trip, I gave up and decided to have the pump rebuilt. Thanks for the suggestions. --Bruce In a message dated 11/5/2012 9:32:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Bruce, You don't say where in the process you are, nor which model you are working on, but taking the pump out and putting the new one in while in the car can be a real pain. Good luck on that. Did you get a refurbed thermostatic actuator? If not you probably need one of those if yours hasn't TESTED okay. Not sure if Wes mentions this in his book, but apart from the SPICA pump itself, make sure the throttles are aligned and are closing. Then follow the steps in Wes' book exactly and in the order presented and you should have the SPICA ready to go. John Justus alfa Romeo Enthusiast -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
