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I've been searching for first-hand directions and photos for the input shaft roller bearing swapover. I found some threads which _used_ to have pics, but no direct pics or concise directions. This afternoon we disconnected the engine for my son's '93L with a prospective trashed input ball bearing.
I'll b swapping out t-belt while the engine is out, along with right front motor mount, re-torqueing heads, and replacing reaction rod and shifter bushings. Probably I'll replace the infamous fuel line splices on the firewall and do the cam and aux. shaft seals at the same time, as well as put in a rebuilt starter (yes, done by a local auto electrical shop on the starter which came out of another son's wrecked S).
I couldn't see doing all of the disassembly required for this job without ending up with a lot of preventive maintenance getting done. The car has about 150K miles and had a non-Alfa clutch job done about 40k ago by the P.O. The clutch is _very_ stiff, and had been since purchase in Jan 2004. I'll be doing a clutch kit job on it, Ricambi Originale kit with Valeo disc for the clutch pressure plate. I hope the clutch will be lighter and more available for the wife to use as needed. The car is a very nice graphite gray metallic color, respray of original done by the P.O., and still looks very nice.
Please forward or post those pics and directions, folks. I'll be looking forward to them. I'm planning to play hookey tomorrow and get this transaction transacted. Maybe get the bearing replacement done and get the engine/transm. back into the car and hooked up for running. It really doesn't take that many hours to do this the third or fourth time in 6 months....
MIchael
I'll b swapping out t-belt while the engine is out, along with right front motor mount, re-torqueing heads, and replacing reaction rod and shifter bushings. Probably I'll replace the infamous fuel line splices on the firewall and do the cam and aux. shaft seals at the same time, as well as put in a rebuilt starter (yes, done by a local auto electrical shop on the starter which came out of another son's wrecked S).
I couldn't see doing all of the disassembly required for this job without ending up with a lot of preventive maintenance getting done. The car has about 150K miles and had a non-Alfa clutch job done about 40k ago by the P.O. The clutch is _very_ stiff, and had been since purchase in Jan 2004. I'll be doing a clutch kit job on it, Ricambi Originale kit with Valeo disc for the clutch pressure plate. I hope the clutch will be lighter and more available for the wife to use as needed. The car is a very nice graphite gray metallic color, respray of original done by the P.O., and still looks very nice.
Please forward or post those pics and directions, folks. I'll be looking forward to them. I'm planning to play hookey tomorrow and get this transaction transacted. Maybe get the bearing replacement done and get the engine/transm. back into the car and hooked up for running. It really doesn't take that many hours to do this the third or fourth time in 6 months....
MIchael