Re: [alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #968

["Bill LeClair" <billleclair@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Second gear synchronizers work hard enough, use third gear when trying to
get to first from neutral.

Bill LeClair


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From: <Iopsycheng@domain.elided>
To: <alfa@domain.elided>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 12:19 AM
Subject: [alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #968


> Hey Gang,
> Are all the older Alfa owner dead or do they just not read the digest? The
> reason you can't shift your GTV-6s from neutral to first or reverse
without a
> crunch is because you don't know anything about your car.(I'm channeling
Fred
> DiMatteo here) The synchronizers don't work from neutral into first or
reverse,
> they never have. Get into the habit of pulling the gear lever towards, but
not
> into, second and then into first you won't get a crunch from a warm
gearbox.
> As for cold, you got to let it warm up or it will crunch every gear.
> Now before the deluge of hate mail let me finish channeling here... The
first
> time I met Fred I was about 17 or 18 and I was driving a friends Alfetta
when
> chanced brought Fred and I together. After hearing me crunch the shift
into
> first a couple of times Fred took me to task and explained, in his own
> inimitable fashion, the process I have passed on above. As I recall he
told me it had
> something to do with Alfa copying Porsche type synchromesh but modifying
it
> enough to not infringe on patent rights so it ended up working a little
> differently. To some extent it has apparently affected all Alfa gearboxes
since the
> mid 1950s until the advent of FWD. I know this is going to start the
typical
> digest storm but I just had to go with Fred. I had only known the man for
about
> 10 minutes when he started chewing my ass for not knowing everything about
my
> Alfa. I loved the guy from the minute I met him and I have not worked on
one of
> my cars since his passing without thinking of him.
> Thomas A. Gonnella
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