Okay, I rebuilt the strange hydraulic pump attached to the timing belt tensioner, got the belt on (skipped a tooth on the first try, had to do it all again) turned it over by hand for about twenty revs, and after that I threw a battery in the thing long enough to turn it over with the starter. No interference. Now all I gotta do is remove the fuel tank, have it boiled out, and replace the rotted mess of dead rubber hoses that once connected it to the engine so that I can fire it up long enough to do a compression check.
Weird thing happened when I hooked up the battery, tho. Only about half of the gauges fired up. And none of the regular electrical things happened. No headlights. No turn signals. No power windows.
After doing a lil’ research, I discovered that the guys had stripped all of the GTV6 stuff out of the interior, and had replaced most of it with the dash & console with parts from some poor old US market “Alfetta” 4-cyl version of the same chassis. I knew they existed, but didn’t realize there were that many of them actually in the US…and knowing how badly Alfas rust, I certainly didn’t expect that anyone would find one in an Alabama junkyard, even if it was 15yrs ago.
I’ve never been good at reading circuit diagrams, even the good ones in the Bentley manuals for my VWs. I guess this will be another `learning experience’ for me. (big berkeleying grin)
