Hi Stefano, I'm not sure how you're going to use the car and if it is a keeper or not. If you plan on keeping it, I highly recommend having Merritt Carden lighten your gears. He's a WW2 vet so he's getting up there in years, don't wait for the next project. My other caution is the poly bushings. I put trailing arm poly bushings in the Berlina and paid again to have them removed! The amount of vibration and noise they added to the car, made it unacceptable for a daily driver. On the various drives we do around Marin, guys with much more horsepower than I have, are amazed that I'm always in their rear view mirror. It's not horsepower, it's mostly the car is set up well, the suspension works and I'm a pretty decent lead foot driver. This is all with stock rubber bushings. The one place I'm going to upgrade the rubber bushings is in the adjustable upper control arms. My new mechanic, Jim Cestarollo at AlfaMan in Novato, has a better bushing for those. I'm unlikey to ever poly again for a street car!
I can give you Merritt's phone number... Stevan Thomas 73 Berlina In a message dated 9/7/2010 5:08:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:04:01 -0700 > From: Stefano Iachella <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] Alfetta transaxle has dropped > > Cats: > > I managed to let the dedion down enough to slide in two 2x4s logitudinally > so the cv joint mounts rest on them. I was then able to raise the whole > thing > so that the main bolt had little tension and could slide out. The whole > thing > has now come down. > > It is now a unit with wheels on it as well. Now of course it will not roll > out > from under the car like I planned because the wheels will not clear the > fender > wells. I can gain a few inches by removing the wheels and lowering it onto > some kind of trolly - I certainly can get some small wheels from the > hardware > store and screw them onto a piece of wood. > > I think I'll have the clearance needed after that. Thanks Ira and Brian > for > responding. > > As I mentioned, I'm doing new syncros and poly bushings and a donut is > in need of replacement as well. I may have more questions later as this is > just the first step. Trans work will be done by others. I'm dreading > putting it > all back up there because as it came down, it shifted slightly sideways > and > backward due to the springs letting their tension out. I don't know how > I'm > going to line everything up again, but I'll burn that bridge when I > get to it in a > few weeks time. > > Thanks for now, > Stefano > Concord, CA -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
