Alfetta transaxle

["Wayne Abbott" <wabbott@domain.elided>]

Hey Y'all,

Were there any differences in cases or mounting of the Alfetta, GTV6, Milano
transaxles?

I have a transaxle in my 76 Alfetta GT which just does not line up with the
drive shaft.  I have replaced the front motor mounts, the rear motor mount,
the entire drive shaft has been rebuilt with new giubos and center support
bearing, the spacers are there to keep a safe distance between the drive shaft
and the bell housing.  Once in the tunnel the front end of the drive shaft
falls easily into place onto the front flywheel and the support bearing is
automatically right where it is supposed to be.  So far, so good, from there
things get difficult.  the rear flange on the drive shaft seems to be right.
it is perpendicular to the drive shaft.  The flange on the clutch input shaft
is at an angle.  If rotated so that one ear is pointed straight up and the
other two down, like an upside down Y, the top ear is just about right but the
bottom two are three eighths of an inch or more apart.  I could pull it
together but I believe the giubo would have a short life.  The front of the
transaxle is too low, this makes the clutch input flange sit at an angle.  I
thought about putting shims under the new transmission mounts and a friend
told me how the Milano mounts are made by welding a spacer to the GTV6 mounts.
Having a Milano crossbar with good mounts on it, I took the Alfetta cross bar
and mounts out and swapped in the Milano cross bar and mounts.  The clutch
input flange is right up where the drive shaft rest, the three ears are right
up against the three ears of the drive shaft.  The top of the transaxle is
just about crushing the emergency brake cable.  In the GTV6, is the e-brake
cable routed differently?

Why don't all my new Alfetta parts make things fit the way they should?  Or is
this part of why the early design was ditched.

Could the transaxle in my car, which is not original to the car, be the
problem?

Was the attachment points on the transaxle as well as the rubber mounts
changed?

I guess that I will grind off the weld and separate the shim from the mount
and make a set of GTV6 mounts and try those, maybe the e-brake cable can then
stay where it is.

The chassis shows no sign of damage.


arrrgggghhhhh!!!!

Thanks for any and all information,

Wayne Abbott
Durham, NC
76 Alfetta GT
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