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baldy · Alfasud Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 67

Has anyone noticed on the gearbox external bell housing that there are various colours used by alfa ive seen green blue and white up to present, on differant gear boxes. im thinking it could be an indication of the ratios used does anybody know? as it would be a quick usefull guide.
Lee

Alan · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject:

I have 3 gearboxes in my garage right now. Where should that be exactly?
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baldy · Alfasud Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 67

If your looking at the gearbox from the gear lever input shaft end ,its at the opposite side to the clutch lever opening at the top. Lee

Ben_nz · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:43 am Post subject:

Here's another gearbox question.
At the rear end of the gearbox there's a long support arm attached, stretching toward the back of the car. The end of this arm has a hoop with a rubber bush, and a pin passes through this to mount the support arm to the car.
Should there be massive clearance around this mounting pin, or should the bush take up all the spare space in the support arm's hoop?
I just want to know whether mine is massively worn or whether it's designed that way. Wink

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john 33_16v · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:02 am Post subject:

Ben- Think they normally have quite alot of clearance.

Lee - If anyone knows the answer to colour thing it will probably be Ramesh Bharadia the boss of Alfarama 020 8951 4100. I know he himself is an alfa gearbox specialist, and i've heared that he used to do rebuilds on behalf of main dealers and alfa uk.

Would love to know the answer. Just bought a spare box myself!

John
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Alan · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject:

I found this on one of the gearboxes i have.
It's blue color.

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Eddie_W · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:03 am Post subject:

Ben, when new those mounts have a hole you could drive a bus through. The engineering rational escapes me.
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bobbber · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:09 am Post subject:

Alan · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject:

@ ben

yes that rubber mounting has a rather big hole Very Happy

I solved that (when it was FWD offcourse) by making my own mount from a bigger tube and some flat piece of metal. (sorry i dont know all the right words in english) You can see the part on the picture (in the red eclipse)
It helped alot and gear shifting was more precision and the engine-gearbox movement was reduced.

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hugh jinjin · Alfasud Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 68 Location: Glasgow

the bush in the end of the gearbox extension isn't really to hold the gearbox rigidly in place but more to transfer crash loads to the chassis to stop the footwells crushing in the event of a head on crash. The Sud was originally designed with a lightweight alloy gearbox extension but after crash testing of prototypes this was abandoned and the heavy duty steel one seen on all production suds and 33 was adopted.

john 33_16v · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject:

rsfruitbat · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject:

I think early Suds had the p***k in a shirt sleeve back mounting but the tailshaft was bolted straight onto the rear gearbox casing with no rubbery bit inbetween.
Changing to this I have found does improve the gear change quality. I also think the Sprint gearlever might be a bit shorter which reduces throw.

rsfruitbat Cool

Admin · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject:

ZeNiTh-PbArM · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

Hi,

as far as i know the alloy extension was only fitted to italian cars.
export suds all featured the steel one

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zp

RBL · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject:

Lee

Did you ever work out exavtly what the blue mark indicates? I've also got a 5 speed 'box with the same marking.

Rich
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