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John Hansen · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:55 pm Post subject: Lost 2nd and 5th gear

Hi, Any help appreciated - hoepfully problem is related to gear shift linkage rather than gear box. Today when starting off for the home trip, gear box was reluctant to find any gears. I ended up with 1st, 3rd and 4th for trip home(approx 130 kms). Wnent OK (like 4th gear at 120 kmh and 4500 rpm), but can anyone please tell me what to look for with respect to shift linkage as 2nd ad 5th felt like like they had bee locked out. THANKS.

PS I'm still trying to get the beast to 333,333 kms. We're almost at 3330,000 kms!
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John H
'87 Alfa 33 QV

John Hansen · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 10:46 am Post subject: Found 5th still missing 2nd gear

Problem appears to be broken synchro ring on second gear. Pulled the bottom of the sump and found some bits floating around. Am currently managing without 2nd gear, but thinking about getting the synchro ring and trying to do the replacement myself. Hopefully it will be reasonably easy thanks to the pictures posted by WIZZ.
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John H
'87 Alfa 33 QV

GaryUK · Guest

I think you might find it is the linkage try putting a washer on the inside(left or right) of the bolt that connects the gearstick bottom to the shaft, this will increase the throw and will help getting the gears you are missing. Ihope this is the problem as it's easily fixed. If the washer trick works get new bits for the connection use the washers as a temp solution.

John Hansen · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 10:38 am Post subject: 2nd gear

Hi Gary,

Thanks for comment, but I dropped the sump off last weekend and had a few bits fall out - such as broken 2nd synchro ring. I've got part on order and hopefully the job won't be too hard. On a slightly different note, is there anyway of using 2nd gear with the synchro gone? E.g. can one double clutch to get it into 2nd? THANKS.
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John H
'87 Alfa 33 QV

Marcin · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 12:06 pm Post subject:

Hi,

early cars didn't have synco rings at all, so it was double clutching all the time (quite some fun, I suppose Laughing

). It helps when your synco is worn out, so it should also help when there's no syncro at all...

Cheers,

Marcin

loui · Alfasud Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 29 Location: Scotland

Think the trick to change gear is blip the throttle and change down as the revs fall. Bit of practise gets the gears changing without the crunch. Sort of matching the engine speed to the gear.

Pimp_Dudu · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 3:04 am Post subject: