Re: Gear Lightening

[Ray Cordova <cordovar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoops, when I received Jason's question message I didn't realize it had been 
posted to the digest.  Here is essentially the answer I provided in private.

-R

Hey Jason,
I had mine done about a year and a half ago, and the cost was essentially $500 
(just shy actually).  I wouldn't be surprized if the price has gone up a bit but 
I would expect not much.

There are two clusters of gears in the TA boxes as well as the spider's - the 
main shaft and the lay shaft.  I believe you could get some benefit from just 
doing the gears on the main shaft, but it's not recommended and I would agree.  
Once you've got the box out of the vehicle and torn apart it would be a 
penny-wise, dollar-foolish economy, for perhaps a hundred and fifty less - but 
that's my opinion.

One of the other fellas made the point but I'll repeat it, because I know the 
cost is not small.  Lightening the gears not only makes shifting better/quicker 
it also is claimed to make the synchros last *way* longer.  (I say claimed 
because mine's not old enough for me to say that it is so from my own 
experience.)  So you can use that point/fact to help talk yourself into it - 
you'll not need to get into that box again for a looong time, if you do it.

-R

> From: "Jason Hagen" <hagen_jason1@domain.elided>
> To: cordovar@domain.elided, alfa-digest@domain.elided
> Subject: Re: Gear Lightening
> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:52:58 -0500
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> 
> How much does this process cost?  Which gears should be lightened on the 
> Spiders?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jason Hagen
> '73 Spider
> '95 164Q
> 
> 
> >From: Ray Cordova <cordovar@domain.elided>
> >Reply-To: Ray Cordova <cordovar@domain.elided>
> >To: alfa-digest@domain.elided
> >Subject: Re: Gear Lightening
> >Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:49:53 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Clay,
> >I'll second (third?) the opinions shared by Brian & Mark.  Gear lightening 
.....
> >
> >-Ray
> >'84 GTV 6
> >San Diego.
> >--------
> > > Is this a good thing to do, or would I just end spending the same money 
> >on an
> > > all new (rebuilt) tranny?
> > >
.......
> > > - -Clay Leopold
> > > '84 Spider (orig. owner --~65,000 miles).
> > > Princeton, NJ
> >--
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