The element below the fuel pump is the oil pump.
The 164 is 94LS automatic with 253,000 miles
Pietr from Denmark. Long time no see. You have Dolly Croscetto's car bought specifically for her by her husband. But when he died she moved from Seattle area east of the Cascade Mountain range and Tom and I helped her sell it. We had to borrow a pickup from Jack Brooks to pull a trailer that distance and ran out of gas on he way, felt we were stranded, but suddenly discovered it had a switch to a second tank. I drove the car for a while to make sure it was in good shape but drove it to Idaho and back (1000 miles) and had a second flat tire about twenty miles from Seattle on the way back. When the buyer who piously said he was going to keep it forever suddenly found a British buyer at double his own purchase price I was called upon to give affidavits as to the actual VIN. Like my sprint her original title had been issued to the prior owner (Bill Harding, I believe) under the motor number. I still have a copy of her original title under 0020400450 (clearly the motor number because VIN numbers are AR10204*?????*) showing Dolly's signature on June 17, 1989. It could not be shipped to England until the title was changed. The car later was feathered in Thorobred and Classic Motors magazine before you bought it. I suspect you paid four or five times what Dolly sold it for in 1989.. I hope it still runs good and that you you are enjoying it. It's worth a lot more now than when you bought it. I am amazed what they now bring on sales.
Don, I believe what he was looking at and wanting a name for was the right idler arm of the steering system. You are correct that the oil pump is below the side fuel pump but once cannot see it in the picture. Finally, Don, the intake valves are set tighter that for the spider so it is less horsepower and uses less gas.
Sorry, RML, that you felt you had to sell your outstanding car. You were right not to let it go at the high offer on BAT. Luckily it does not get so hot here in Seattle. I suspect the lack of seat belts worries you too, as it does me. It was not a worry in the distant past when I first got it in 1972. I believe I could adopt seat belts from the Alfetta series. How much younger would you have to be to enjoy the car?. I still enjoy mine at age 85. I must tell everyone what a great son I have to suddenly decide to redo the entire car for me starting on Father's day. What a wonderful present. I confess he has energy that I don't even think I could have once had. I have a wonderful garage with a lift but now do very little in it. I have finally retired after 55 years of practice as a lawyer, but am still sorting mess on my desk and stored filed. Enjoy you car. Treasure it. Take it to the National Convention and be prepared to show it off. It is really one of two and a half in the country. Tom Zat has the third with a smashed front in Wisconsin, but he drove my car both from a National Convention in Seattle to Alfa Heaven and then an Alfa Owner Magazine article entitled "The Cast Iron Cowboy Rides Again" covered his trip bringing it back to me two years later at the Portland Convention. I realize your car was in great shape when you got it, but mine was painted black with a brush. The headliner was handing down. The left front was damaged so badly one had to hold tightly on the steering wheel to keep it from diving into the ditch. We called it our Mafia Staff car. I started looking for a two liter sedan once my Honeymom and I had five little kids under the age of five and they would no longer fit in my spider. Worst problem was that a floor box had been installed and the seat would not let the reverse fully engage so that reverse finally did not work at all. Luckily I found a 2600 berlina with a bad rear end at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma to get the right transmission and the column shift linkage (especially the shift lever that had been broken off). But I had to get chrome parts from Durbin, South Africa when a fellow Alfa lover drove to strip an abandoned car there for me. Hang on to you car. You are a treasured and blessed Alfa owner. Enjoy. Wish I could get a neat set of floor mats like yours.
Hi Jay,
