[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V10 #346

[Iopsycheng@xxxxxxx]

Ed,
My wife's '88 Milano Gold auto did the same thing -- creeping forward in  
park -- right before the transmission shift cable failed. Apparently, the cable  
is stretching so while it looks like it is in park the linkage hasn't moved 
the  full range and the tranny is actually between positions. Once I replaced 
the  cable the problem went away... Be warned, most parts places will send you 
an  auto tranny cable for an Alfetta, supposedly it is the same P/N... It 
isn't, but  it can be made to work if the proper cable isn't available. 
If your tranny is dead I have the one out of my wife's car. Nothing  wrong, 
fluid and filter changed every 7500 miles, Mobil 1 synthetic ATF for  the 50K 
miles we owned, 115K total, came out of a two owner car -- me and  the PO - 
documents show the car maintained by Krause & England and FAF.  Reason we bought 
the car in the first place was the way the auto tranny  worked...  $125.00 
plus shipping or you make pickup arrangements at my  house. I will crate for 
free. 
Oh, wife is reading over my shoulder and reminded me that the fluid level  
switch never gave consistent readings on the dash panel. True statement but  
every time I took the switch off it worked fine on the bench, eventually I  
decided that nothing else worked consistently on the dash info panel so why  should 
this be any different.
Oh #2, if you ask real pretty, I will go out in the garage and get you the  
number of the $11.00 Purolator tranny filter that every auto parts store in the 
 US has on the shelf... I did about 14 months at a Pep Boys... Lots of Alfa  
things are from other cars.
Thomas Gonnella
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