Is there a special tool or special way to remove the spacer without doing damage to it?
Thanks in Advance
Hi Karlton. Glad to see you solved the problem and I congratulate you on tackling this job - brave man! I'm not at all familiar with your model (where Fiats are concerned it's mostly FWD Pandas and Puntos for me - although I did help a friend who owned a 131 Mirafiore and another who had a classic rear engined 500). A lot of the older cars I used to work on for a living - Morris, Austin, Hillman, Vauxhall, etc, etc with rear wheel drive had gearboxes very similar in concept to this from what I can see in your images. They pretty much all had prop shafts with metal universal joints not the donut your's has. Although my Imps had them on the driveshafts to the wheels as did the FWD Triumph 1300 (not a good idea - too much torque used to destroy them quite regularly). I'm struggling to understand why you have that spacer and rubber on the shaft at all - what does it do? why is it there? does it engage with a "socket" on the driven shaft?Thanks to all! A puller seemed to do the trick, although it was a little large and I may need to replace the spring
Thanks to all for the help!