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> On May 18, 2014, at 10:37 PM, [email protected] (alfa-digest) wrote: > > > alfa-digest Monday, May 19 2014 Volume 10 : Number 2726 > > > > Forum for Discussion of Alfa Romeos, etc. > Richard Welty <[email protected]> > Digest Coordinator > > Contents: > > [alfa] Re: 1978 Spider acting up > Re: [alfa] Re: 1978 Spider acting up > [alfa] Re: alfa-digest V10 #2726 > > 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: Thu, 15 May 2014 12:04:36 -0400 > From: Bruce Giller <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] Re: 1978 Spider acting up > > b There 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 > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 09:15:40 -0700 (PDT) > From: Brian Shorey <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [alfa] Re: 1978 Spider acting up > > 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] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 22:36:52 -0400 > From: "Eric J Russell" <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] Re: alfa-digest V10 #2726 > >> In an effort to renew the horn wire that goes through the steering column >> on my GT, I did a foolish thing and withdrew it from the front. It came >> out easily. Now I cannot get a clear passage back through it to chase a >> snake of any size. > > I have used a vacuum cleaner (shop vac). Put the vacuum's hose at the > steering wheel end and feed a small string into the steering box end. The > hope is the suction will draw the string up to the steering wheel end. Then > you can easily pull the new wire up with the string. > > Eric Russell > Mebane, NC > > ------------------------------ > > End of alfa-digest V10 #2726 > **************************** -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
