Get a pair of these to use instead of Vice Grips: http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00947051000P
Much easier on the fuel lines. You can clamp upstream and downstream of the filters when you replace them, and minimize what comes out of the lines in either direction. As Bruce says, there is a second fuel filter in the engine compartment. Take care to make sure you get the old gasket out of the filter housing, if you double gasket those things you will have an engine fire.. All three filters, the two fuel filters and the Spica pump oil filter, are relatively easily replacable by a home mechanic. Just take some basic safety precautions with the fuel in the lines and you should be ok. bs From: Bruce Giller <[email protected]> To: Alfa Digest <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:04 AM Subject: [alfa] Re: 1978 Spider acting up bThere are two fuel filters on SPICA cars. One by the fuel tank (I like NAPA Gold filter 3299 - http://goo.gl/ItJ5ip) and one in a canister-type ( http://goo.gl/PFMAFH) in the engine compartment. Both can be changed by the owner, just a bit messy. The rear one requires the hose from the tank to be removed and I use a ViceGrip to pinch the hose shut so that gas doesn't run down my arm. The engine compartment one requires you to drop the canister down a bit and then tilt it slightly to clear all the hoses. Messy as well but the gas doesn't run down your arm. The SPICA pump does have a small oil filter (http://goo.gl/KF1L36) that can be changed (you need the small gasket (http://goo.gl/3XmgZV) as well. Can't remember how often that one should be replaced. You can replace that one as well - not nearly as messy as the fuel filters. Bruce '73 GTV > > > Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:57:10 -0700 (PDT) > From: Colin Talcroft <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] 1978 Spider acting up > > Thanks for all the ideas about my Spider, which has since corrected > itself. Next question: > > I went ahead and got the fuel filters (It seems one is called a fuel > filter, the one that goes near the fuel pump, the other they call an oil > filter, actually, and it goes up by the Spica stuff, apparently. Just > wondering, are these the sort of thing that an idiot like me can change? Or > best left to a pro? How do you deal with fuel in the system, I wonder? > Never done this before.... > > Thanks > > Colin Talcroft > Santa Rosa, CA > > 1978 Chocolate Brown Spider -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
