Re: alfa-digest V8 #990

[Eachan@domain.elided]

What do you do when you get the driveshaft washers and nuts mixed up?  Do you 
balance them against each other to get equal weights on all sides, or is it 
more complicated than that?


> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 11:01:31 -0400
> From: "Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>
> Subject: RE: Driveshaft Balance
> 
> > Michael O'Donnell confirms that he has seen an Alfa service bulletin
> referring
> > to the use of different bolts, washers and nuts for the final balance
> of the
> > driveshaft of either the GTV 6 or Milano or both, but not Alfettas. My
> old
> > bulletin pile is very haphazard, particularly on post-'83 bulletins,
> and my
> > parts books end with Alfetta first series. If anybody has information
> on
> > specific service bulletins on this subject, or parts information on
> the
> > alternate nuts, bolts, and washers (for any/all late 116/162 cars) I
> would
> > greatly appreciate the information on or off the digest.
> 
> From the CarDisc (everybody should have one!):
> 
> Technical bulletin 89.01. dated May 1, 1989
> 
> "During assembly of the GTV-6 and Milano models of Alfa Romeo, the
> factory precision balances the driveshaft on the car.  The balance of
> the driveshaft is adjusted by using different thickness nuts and/or two
> nuts on one bolt.  (See Fig. 1)"
> 
> "All hardware and driveshaft components MUST be refitted exactly as the
> factory assembled them."
> 
> "Whenever removing or disconnecting the driveshaft from the vehicle mark
> the position of ALL mounting hardware and driveshaft components so that
> they can be returned to their original position to preserve driveshaft
> balance."
> 
> So there it is - all you have to do is look!
> 
> I've forwarded copies of the TSB to John off-line.  If others are
> interested, lemme know, however it's pretty much the text I copied plus
> a pic of the drive shaft and hardware, nothing special.
> 
> bs
> 
> More comments on the CarDisc - I've got a whole bunch of them, all
> converted to HTML.  Wonderful - I've got thousands of pages of material
> from the 50's through the 90's, all loaded on my laptop computer.  How
> else could I have gotten it all onto this plane..
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