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[Karl D <karld@domain.elided>]

Adam, et al, 

I'm not sure if my exploded gear was the same as yours. I have a piece of it in my garage where it clearly shows a casting flaw (bubble). My gear failure punched a hole in the tranny case. Result was about $4K of work, including a used tranny from APE and a new clutch to replace the oil-soaked original.

In the same Digest I see two 24V 164LS cars being sold-off. Age is overcoming these cars as have previous generations of Alfas...resale prices dropping (if you care about such things)and the price of maintenance is quite high.

As much as I love my car in the 8 years since I bought it new, it would be a critical decision making point for me as well if I was again faced with a similar repair bill. (I will now remove my philosopher's hat and go back to my job.)

Karl

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:14:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Adam Rodnitzky <arodnitzky@domain.elided>
Subject: Got my LS back -  and the transmission problem was...

...a broken sun gear and bad input shaft bearing. One
$3000 transmission rebuild and new clutch later and my
164LS is back on the road. 
Karl D, I believe this was similar to what happened
with your LS, except on yours the "spider gear" went?
Is that the same as the sun gear?
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