RE: spider tanking up gripe

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@xxxxxxxxx>]

>    as a long time early 70s spider driver, & ~9 month digest participator
>    i'm surprized to never have seen anything about what has to be the most
>    annoying thing about these cars, tanking up!
>    has anyone found some trick or gadget to avoid squeezing the
> lever on the
>    fill nozzle the smallest possible amount & still having it trip off
>    regularly, resulting in it taking ~15 minutes to put 11
> gallons in the tank?

that's a feature that alfa began work on in the spiders and reached
perfection on in the milano.  you 164 owners think you've got a real alfa -
can you put gas in the tank, huh, can you?  all the way to the top?

in earlier cars that won't take a nozzle, i've found that proper insertion
(i.e.  all the way) is really important.  in the milano's there was a
problem with the routing of one of the vapor return lines, so you might
check those in you spider.  they key was to look for dips in the vapor
return line, if i remember correctly.

have a good thanksgiving everybody, and for those who don't celebrate
thanksgiving, well, just have a good day.

bs

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