33 gearbox — ALFA ROMEO
33 gearbox on Alfa Romeo: 21 steps, engines AR30146, AR30168, AR30182, AR30502. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for ALFA ROMEO — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform codes 1.2, |, 1.3, S, 1.4, IE, 1.5, GIARDINETTA, QUADRIFOGLIO, TI, 1.7, 16V
- Opens: gearbox oil
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📐 2 workshop diagrams for AR30146
Real factory drawings for this job — timing marks, bolt locations and routing. Locked in the free view.
📋 Procedure
- Disconnect the battery
- Refill the gearbox
- Raise the vehicle
- Drain the gearbox oil
- Remove the distributor
- Disconnect the engine support
- Disconnect the speedometer sensor
- Disconnect the starter motor
- Remove the exhaust pipe
- Disconnect the drive shafts from the gearbox
- Remove the flywheel inspection cover plate
- Disconnect the reversing light switch from the gearbox
- Disconnect the gearbox support
- Place a jack under the gearbox
- Lift the gearbox slightly until the gearbox support bolt can be removed
- Remove the engine/gearbox mounting bolts
- Remove the gearbox
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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