Fuel pump (The original blog was written on 15th Aug. 2007)

Although the gas was refilled, the gas didn’t come to the carburetors. The electric fuel pump was working, but it still did blank beating. I replaced the pump soon after I bought this car…but it was about 20 years ago! So, I decided to replace the electric fuel pump to new one, and to change the location of the pump from the engine room to the trunk room (because for the electric fuel pump to push the fuel is better than to pull the fuel).

I bought the Mitsuba electric fuel pump, fuel hoses and a fuel filter by auction and installed them in the trunk room. (The wiring is tentative. But I am ashamed because the trunk room is so dirty…)

However, even the new fuel pump was working well, the fuel didn’t come. I guessed that the inlet of the fuel sender unit in the tank was sticking. I remove the unit from the tank and found the rusty unit and its inlet was perfectly blocked by the rust (I forgot to take the picture with too much shocking condition). Now I understood why the fuel couldn’t come.

As the tentative solution I removed the rust from the unit and put the net at the inlet of the pipe not to come the rust in the fuel pipe, and reinstalled the unit in the tank. I have to remove the rust of the tank and replace the fuel sender unit with new one. It’s my future task with high priority.

When the fuel pump started, finally the fuel came to the engine room! A little progress!!!

But soon I found new problems of course …

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Tip to repair rubber parts

I disassembled the rear axle before. There had been no progress on it because I started the repair of the fuel tank during my summer holiday. While painting the fuel tank , I repaired the torn rubber boot of the parking brake wire. I guessed it didn ’ t cost high because it was small rubber part. But I wanted to try the repair method I read on the magazine article before. This was the condition before the repair. The rubber was torn apart and separated almost. I used this self-adhesive type butyl tape. I pasted lots of small pieces of the butyl tape on the back side of the rubber boot. As time goes by , these tapes would melt and stick together. After this I applied plenty of adhesive “ Super X Black ” on the rubber boot. On the magazine of MOTO MAINTENANCE , I read the article that the motorcycle seat was repaired with this method. So , I wanted to try it. After drying 1 day , it became like this....

Pad spring repair

One of the springs to hold the brake pads was broken. At first I thought to buy it, however, I tried to fix it using rivets. It seemed to be strong enough just to hold pads. Later I removed the rust and cleaned them. Note: I have been using this repaired pad soring for 10 years and there is no issue. Pad spring is not an expensive part ptobably (I don't know the exact price), but it is easy to repair if you have ar1750gtv hand rivetter. (My original blog was written on 10th May 2008 )

Body repair around the fuel tank

I found some rust at the flange in body around the fuel tank as I expected. I believed this level of rust in this area was quite usual for old Alfa Romeo. It seemed that this area didn ’ t influence on the body strength , however , I was considering the method what I could do by myself. Anyway in order to prepare the sheet metal for the repair at first , I started to look for the store where I could buy some sheet metal near my house. I tried to research the store on internet , but I couldn ’ t find appropriate stores. Finally I asked the person at repair shop , who did maintenance of my Renault 5 , about the store I could buy some sheet metal. They kindly taught me the store , but at the same time they gave me some sheet metal for free. That was enough volume for what I wanted to do. I didn ’ t expect it. Thanks a lot!!! (My original blog was written on 12th Sep. 2008 )

The day my "onboro ALFA" would revive

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