156 back on the road for Christmas

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I'm happy to say that after two weeks out of action, our 156 is back on deck in time for Christmas visits.

A marginally over enthusiastic take off from an intersection by yours truly stripped a couple of gearbox teeth (haven't opened the box yet to see if it was first gear or the final drive) and left me red-faced. Fortunately it happened right near Bob Romano Auto Care & Performance at Morningside, so I limped the car to their workshop.

Big thanks to Cameron from Automotion for putting me onto Alfa Wreck in Sydney for a second hand box. And a huge thanks to Chris Romano for working up to 6pm on December 23 to get the new clutch and gear linkages just right.

Merry Christmas all,

Brent

[dehne]

good to here its back on the road, Rocco at alfa wreck has every part to fit the 156 onwards, I have been using him for years and his business partner Andrew is quite knowledgable.

[colcol]

Hey Brent, what model 156 was it?, i may need to be a bit more gentler in the future!, and when you open the gearbox up, tell us what broke and a few pics would be good too, Colin.

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Colin, it's a 2005 156 Ti. I'm usually pretty gentle on take offs. I'm quite happy to give it a good rev once it gets going but see no point in chirping front wheel drive tyres. On this occasion though I gave it a fair rev to get out into traffic in a hurry, from a gently sloping intersection and something let go. I'll have a dig in the box after new year and take some pics.

[colcol]

If its a 2005 TI model, then that would have the JTS engine with all that extra power, i hope you fitted the right gearbox, as the Twin sparks and JTS are different and there are a lot more twin spark gearboxes around, we had a Victorian JTS owner who had a gearbox failure, i beleive he had a layshaft or mainshaft failure, Colin.