[alfa] Jinxed. Milano clutch failure

[Mark Denovich <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is this, 3 whole days after I said I had faith in my Milano?

The story:  Driving home, as I was passing the last exit before the 
tunnel (2 miles away) I hear the traffic report (1 day after installing 
the radio) telling me to avoid the tunnel as there was a fatal accident 
on the other side and the tunnel was closed.  100yds farther I was in 
bumper to bumper traffic.  I inched along for a few minutes.  Then when 
pushing on the clutch... "wham" the pedal hit the floor and the car 
lurched forward.  I bumped it into neutral and rolled to the minimal 
shoulder.  I called AAA for a tow, but knew it would be a while as the 
traffic was barely moving.   Fortunately, a PennDOT towtruck was only a 
short distance behind me, and he picked me up to get my car out of 
traffic.  At least the truck was warm and I had someone to talk to, as 
it took 2 hours to get to the tunnel exit where he dropped me off.   I 
then killed some time in a Starbucks waiting for another AAA truck to 
tow me the last mile or two home.

The diagnosis:  I had guessed the cluch fork broke (as happens on the 
105 series cars, right?)  Luckily, I have a spare gearbox to compare, 
and I found that the "spherical pin" snapped off.   I heard it clunk to 
the bottom of the gearbox when I pulled the clutch fork.

The repair:  It looks like I can just remove what's left of the old one 
and transplant the good pin in from my old gearbox?   Is it going to be 
that easy?

--Mark
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