In a message dated 4/26/2011 1:28:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:17:45 -0400 From: "Mark Slagen" <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] '86 Looking for good engine & transmission - Spider Veloce
My synchros are gone between 1st & 2nd, and I'm debating on a rebuild. Also when I had a compression test of the engine, the numbers were all over the map. I'm in Nassau, NY (near Albany). (I also need the center console, but I can by one at IAP). Any help would be appreciated. (OK, I ask myself 'why I didn't do this in the winter?'!!!) Mark Slagen Rebuild? Why? TADT You can rebuild it but it would turn out the same in the end: those go. Shift by ear and you will be okay. Some usually skip 2nd anyhow. Heel and toe. Compression is not likely to be identical across the cylinders, but it should be quite close. If you see 4 wildly different readings, something is amiss. Probably more than one thing. Do you have good compression anywhere? Moral: forget about the trans synchro and concentrate on the compression. Charlie LA, CA, USA PS: are you anywhere near Chatham? -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
