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Originally Posted by mr2tim
Fiats huh? Isn't that the newest American car company? 
Have right rear fender out yonder on the 86 parts car.?
Lots of cars around huh? U sound like my kinda guy.
BTW when i got my C-52 back from the rebuilder last time he insisted that I use 5w-30 synthetic motor oil-interesting huh? |
Thanks Tim. I wouldn't want you to cut up a good shell like the one you've showed. I believe I can get ours straighten out with a bit of effort and sweat! It's fairly heavy gauge metal for sure...
Concerning the gearbox.
I ended up collecting the one I mentioned down at local yard for $200 flat. It was high up inside their dry storage area and looks quite clean - no leaks noticed and it has fluid in it.
Still driving the car with bad 4th gear, but had a new experience with it a couple of days ago. While driving in traffic (always happens this way) all of a sudden I could not find any gear! It wasn't until I coasted off on to a side street and got slow enough to almost walk, and all of a sudden I got the gears back! Sounds like a cable problem from what I've read on this board concerning trannies.
Is there a way to adjust these cables? I noticed that on the shift lever there is a union that could be adjusted but reviewing the BGB, I don't see where it mentions anything about adjusting these cables. So are they adjustable? Could my 4th gear problem be "adjusted" out via the cables?
Will probably spend the weekend swapping out gearboxes this weekend, but would like feedback on the above, in case I don't need to go into it that deep!
As for Fiats - I don't think the new ones are going to look anything like the old ones...