MD wrote:No, the brakes are no better hence the huge thread on the subject on this Forum.
Mmmm I guess I'll have to venture into that dark and scary section soon...
Micke wrote:a) The LSD has no locking power without incoming torque. You really cannot say just by rotating it if it's dead or alive. I guess if you have the box on a bench it would be possible to lock one wheel, apply torque on the incoming shaft and check how the other wheel feels. Then again if it's out of the car the right way is just to open and chack and replace worn parts + adjust the lash.
b) MARKINGS! This is alfa. They frobably didn't know (or care) at the assebly line either.
d) Pinion and crown wheel can be swapped as a unit. However, the old and new style boxes have different shafts which don't mix.
f) Two different front brake options. 4 bangers Alfetta, Giulietta, GTV, 75, 90 (-TS and Turbo) have non vented disks. The V6 and turbo + TS have vented disks and the brakes are superior to the first ones.
a) Interesting, so no preload? I've been resisting the temptation to dissasemble it for a while now, I'm sure that won't last much longer
b) LOL! I should have known. Anyway I have now confirmed that it does indeed have TS ratios (by spinning the shaft and counting). If I can just get a better final drive ratio on to it she'll be apples.
d) Do you mean the pinion shaft is different? Does that mean you can press the pinion gear on and off the shaft or something like that, or is there just no way to use a crownwheel and pinion from and old box in a new box?
f) Thanks, I thought there was a difference. Although it would seem they are not much better...
Mats wrote:You can change a non-LSD gearset into a LSD box if they are both from a 75 for instance. You need a spacer under the crown gear and some tinkering to get the height right. I've done it, twice.
The other way around is more difficult since you need to remove material or at least get the stub shaft bearing more outboard somehow, shim under the lid or maybe it's possible to just remove the shim under the bearing. Never tried it.
Thanks again Mats. By gearset, do you mean the crownwheel + pinion, or the internals of the gearbox itself?
What about swapping a crownwheel + pinion from and old (GTV) box into a new (75) box and vice versa
Or, what about just swapping the diff centers over (So keeping the GTV gearbox and final drive gears but put the LSD center into it)?
I guess I'll have to get the transaxle out of the GTV and compare them side by side to figure out what is doable. That might be the job for this weekend.