Trans and drive line in with all new parts. When the six nuts/bolts were tightened the rear g-bow formed into kind of a zig -zag shape, looking real wrong. Backed off the six bolts,rotated the drive line to see that the input shaft to the trans contacted the surface of the g-bow at 12 o'clock but had approx a 6mm gap at the bottom or 6 o'clock. Looks to me that the front of the trans needs to be shimmed up at the front to bring the two surfaces true to each other. Any thoughts?
Thanks Bill! Actually I'm working on my 79 Alfetta GT. I did read something somewhere that there are two different front trans mounts; one with a "shim" at the base and one without. I have also heard about this pinch bolt that is important. Does an Alfetta have one of these? if so where exactly is it and what does it look like? This is my first Alfa so sorry if the answers to the questions are too obvious.
Great input guys! I'm going to loosen everything up and see if I have some back to front movement. I still think that I will have a variance in mating surfaces that will require some vertical adjustment at the front of the trans but I'll see what happens when everything is free to move around a bit. Its very interesting to me regarding the observation about the new "donuts" or guibos possibly being thinner then OEM parts. The rear driveline does appear to be not fully seated in the trans input shaft, in effect, looking like this connection is maybe 6-7mm too short. I'll keep you posted. Thanks again for your help!
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