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The "won't go forward" symptom is what my '91L was doing. The eldest daughter was driving it mostly and had reported the transmission was slipping in forward gears. When I got into the car (cool engine/transm.) I felt nothing out of the ordinary. Naturally. Then she got stranded 30 miles from home when she didn't have a real reason to have gone there. The car was OK for a few miles at a time, but rapidly reached a state where it wouldn't go more than 5-6 miles without starting to slip into undriveability. I swapped in another running auto transm., and it's OK for now. I plan to rebuild the other with parts from Eriksson Industries. But another option is to swap in the pedal box and associated hardware from a 5-speed S parts car. It's just a question of which project gets started when. My wife would prefer to have an A/T car, it turns out, but she's happy with her '92S right now. So if we go with the repaired A/T, I may end up with her red '92S.
Steve (Alfisto Steve) confirms reports he's heard that the Saab ZF HP18Q manual (the A/T) is head and shoulders above the Alfa manual, and even better than the manual ZF put out. (My recollections only -- may be inaccurate)
Michael
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