Saturday, April 16, 2011

ALFA Romeo Spider "gearing" up

This morning I had the pleasure to work in the garage on my 1986 ALFA Romeo Spider. Pretty simple maintenance really, just checking and adding gear oil if needed to the gearbox and differential.

The gearbox fill/level plug location requires me to jack the car up a bit. Then I snake a clear tube from the engine compartment and slot it into the gearbox. You can see all this exciting stuff in the pics below. Next I lower the car and then add gear oil a bit at a time and let it drain into the gearbox, until a bit spills out. That's it...I replace the bolt and am done adding gear oil. The gearbox took somewhere around 300-400 ml. Not a whole lot which is good as I know it does drip a little bit so it's not losing too awful much.

The differential is a lot more accessible. I can just lay under the rear of the car and get at the level/fill plug. The diff didn't need any oil. This is good news!

Anyway that concludes this exceedingly exciting blog post. Thanks for reading and have a happy day, wherever you are!




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