I've never heard this one before. I do know that on the ones with the splines. You should loosen the lock nut on the spline and run it for a minute or so, but that enables the drive shaft to settle on the proper length. I think we decided in an exchange with Biba a couple of years ago that Alfettas don't have the spline.
As an aside, after keeping track of what went where for years, this summer I mixed up all of the nuts, bolts, and washers that go through the donuts, without telling any of my LeMons team mates. Nobody noticed. The next time we had it apart I did it again, in front of everybody. They all freaked out, but still, after assembly, the car felt great to everybody. Go figure. bs Sent from my iPad 3 On Oct 29, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Stefano Iachella <[email protected]> wrote: > Cats: > > I've read a million times that when installing a transaxle driveshaft > one does not tighten > up the nuts on the new donuts right away. Run the car and let the > driveshaft spin for > a while and settle, and then torque them up good. > > When my driveshaft was out I installed new donuts and I just hand tightened them > nice and snug. I realized when sliding it in that the nuts facing the > engine are not > accessible after it's installed, so I slid it back out and torqued > those up real good. > I hand tightened the engine nuts. > > Today I'm raising the triangle and transmission up to meet the rear of > the driveshaft > and lining up the rear bolts, etc. I am snugging up the center bearing > carriage and I > realize that the front nuts of the center donuts will not be > accessible with a wrench > or socket. Those are just hand snugged tight. > > I curse and curse and stop all work. What are my choices? > > Thanks, > Stefano > Concord, CA > -- > to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi > or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
