Just a general question---is the heating system in the GTV-6 the same?B
- Cordially,B B
B B B B B B B Alan Lambert
DeB : Will Owen <[email protected]>
CB : alfa <[email protected]>
EnvoyC) le : Lundi 6 avril 2015 10h55
ObjetB : Re: [alfa] Milano HVAC systems
Bruce Sharer wrote:
A number of years ago, I put off cleaning out the area that collets leaves
where the fresh air intake feeds the heater. A club member suggested
installingB a piece of screen wire just under the intake area. My son was
driving
the MilanoB when smoke erupted from the heater vents. He pulled off the road
and turned offB the car. Fortunately, it extinguished itself and there was
little damage done.
The young man who bought my old Milano was not so lucky. He was driving
on a Los Angeles freeway when suddenly smoke came billowing out of the
air vents. It caught and burned so fiercely that the brake MC was almost
instantly toast. With a combination of handbrake and downshifting, then
stalling the car, he got it onto the shoulder and stopped, but he got
out just in time. I felt terrible about it -- I would have anyway, but
I'd been feeding him chunks of important Milano lore as I remembered
them, and had forgotten that one very important one.
As Bill Werner at Alfa Only demonstrated to me one day, you pretty much
just have to get down on your knees (Oh, for a lift!) and reach through
a cubbyhole on the driver's side of the airbox, under the dash, and haul
out whatever leaves you can reach. (Maybe try a shop vac too.) That's
how you get the cabin blower fan in and out too -- I let him do that!
Will Owen
Pasadena CA
1987 Milano Platinum
1991 164S
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