Sunday, December 28, 2008

Spider leaky

Lately I have been smelling the aroma of fuel whilst driving the Alfa Spider. So today was the day to have a looksee. Letting the Spider idle I started examing the various fuel delivery hoses and voila, culprits identified!

Two of the fuel hoses connecting the fuel rail to fuel injectors were leaking...drip drip drip. So I started to removing a mess of hoses and intake bits n pieces so I could get access to these hoses to remove and replace them. Actually a pretty simple job...the toughest part was tracking down the correct diameter. After checking four parts stores I was close to giving up hope when I went to the last one, an Advance Auto store in Deland.

Lo and behold they had what I needed! So I bought a couple feet of it, removed the old bits of hose and cut some new bits to length with my trusty exacto knife and put those on and put everything else back together. Yeah it works! No more leaky!

New hose and chunk of old, leaky hose
















Underneath this mess are the leaky fuel hoses
















Ahhh, nice new hoses in place!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chris;

Those other hoses look like they are heat reflective, but the one you have looks like rubber? It won't melt, will it?

Peace

Greg

Anonymous said...

I was checking out Stallion's blog. Do you have his email address?

I'd like to buy a camera from him for Missy..

Greg

Kid Guzzi said...

No they are high pressure fuel injection hoses, braided with thread throughout. They are made for this task. Also, it's not a particularly hot area of the motor. The exhaust headers are on the other side.

Kid Guzzi said...

I'll email his address to you Greg.