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    Rightyo!

    I have come to hate the subframe! Lol

    Subby out, gearbox out and stripped. No sign of the pin at all. Removed the pin from the other gearbox and after a mensa style game of "fit the pin" it went in. But therein lie my conundrum...

    No sign of the pin so what was giving me reverse selection issues? Do i risk putting it all back together and hope that the pin would clear it all up?

     

    So i put it all back together and put it all back in, box mounted, cables attached and it felt 70% better, so i bolted the subby up and raced to the finish line, via fitting a new alternator which turned out to be perfectly fine-the squeak is the air con compressor....

     

    Its still pants but nowhere near as pants as it was!!

    My enthusiasm for gearbox changing has waned a bit so maybe i'll make the old box back up, change the synchro and replace the pin, and lob it in if the wife goes away for a week!!

     

    Things i've learned?

    Smaky is gearbox messiah.

    Make a decent map of where each bolt goes.

    Alternators are best changed with subframe out.

    Grease is god.

    Dont cross my wife. She scary....

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    Smaky, you may save my life!!

    I spent a while in ny local dealers this morning, harrassing him and generally asking waaay too many questions!

    So my immediate issue is removing the box thats fitted, with the iffy reverse, opening it up and seeing if i can find a very small pin that sits between the interlocks on the selector rods that i really dont remember seeing... I have a hunch that its wedged in the end of the 5/Reverse selector rod orophice.....and thats whats causing the head ache....

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    Grab a coffee, this is a bit of an epic!

    Bought an 03 147 ts in 1.6 flavour in january.

    Had a graunchy synchro on third but hey, i could live with it!

    Actually, no, i couldnt. So i bought another cheapy box, stripped and checked it and in a co-ordinated attack, changed the clutch, release bearing, front bushes and said gearbox.

    Epic week of slog in the garage!

    Only issue is reverse is a pig to engage now. Boooo!

     

    On looking at the gearbox that came out of my car, the reverse setup looks different to the one i put in. My original box looks to be a later one. Eper says there was an update in 03 at some point.

     

    Sigh. Still with me? :)

     

    So, i have now decided that my box, sitting on the bench, needs its synchros replaced. This morning i stripped one shaft and looked at the synchros.

    They have burrs on the back of them which is odd.

    So, my question is this....does anyone have a trashed gearbox that they want to get rid of that i can pinch the synchros off? :)

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    Hey all!

    Was pointed in this direction in my search for someone called 'smaky'....the grand master jedi of all things alfa.

    Needing some help with a troubled gearbox and updates that confuse matters!

    I have a 1.6ts 147 and so far its nearly cost me my marriage and probably the purchase price again in fixing it. I dont like things that are imperfect so it gets expensive quick!!

    Loving alfa ownership so far though, as the wife has a 159 too....:)

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