Auto Ricambi, LLC - Fiat 124 Specialists
Auto Ricambi can be summarized as a simple idea… “Car guys with a passion for the Fiat 124 Spider”. Everyone at Auto Ricambi owns at least one 124, and some of us have several. Together our skilled staff, with nearly 100 years of collective experience, brings a unique world perspective to this hobby turned into a business. From racing to reproducing hard to find items, if it can be done with a Fiat 124 Spider, we have probably already done it and are pleased to share what we learned. We are the Fiat 124 Spider experts and our warehouse contains only the highest quality 124 Spider parts and accessories available anywhere in the world. Since our singular focus is on Fiat 124 Spiders, we can offer the attention to detail needed to serve our customers in a very unique way. We love all cars and all Fiats but our passion is the 124 Spider. Auto Ricambi was formed because we enjoy the cars, the people, and the challenge of satisfying a need in the classic Fiat community for specialized products and services. Our commitment to you is to provide the best service and products available at a fair price. We believe that our success comes from the fact that we listen and respond to our customers. You are the only reason we are in business and we know that. We love to play with cars as much as you do and ours Spiders will continue to be testbeds for many of the products we offer at Auto Ricambi. If we sell it, we have tried it and know it works. Our talented staff has a broad scope of interests and skill sets. We help each other with our projects and it gives us real-world experience to share with customers who are seeking resources for quality parts and knowledge. Auto Ricambi recently purchased our second 2017 Fiat 124 Spider which is being used as a test bed for many new upgrade products that will be offered in our growing line of 2017on Fiat 124 Spider merchandise. From styling accessories and suspension to exhaust, our new Fiat 124 Spider is one of the most highly developed new Spiders in the United States. The best part is that we regularly drive these cars to events where it is not uncommon to hand the keys over to someone who wants to experience it for themselves. Auto Ricambi has grown by acquiring several businesses and inventories over the years. A few of the recognized companies we have purchased include Rayce Inc, Caribou Imports and the Fiat assets of International Auto Parts. Until that purchase, International Auto Parts was the largest Fiat parts supplier in the United States. We have also managed to acquire about a dozen other small independent retired dealership inventories providing many long unavailable items again. This active approach to the Fiat market has poised Auto Ricambi to be in a position to better serve our customers. We are committed to keeping these wonderful cars on the road for many years to come.
As were working on our Fiat Spider 2000 we noticed some oil leaks and brief investigation showed that it's coming from the steering idler and we just recently filled it up with oil because it was dry and now we know why it was dry is because it's leaking This is what a new steering idler looks First step in removing the idler is undoing the two nuts for the thyroid end and the center link and I removed the right wheel and turned the steering wheel to the left that way the thyroid end is as far to the passenger side as possible. We put a wrench on the nut and we can undo it from here. Some people put a socket and long extensions from above that works as well. Next we have to separate the thyroid ends and the center link from the arm of the idler and usually this is done with something called a pickle fork which is a big fork that goes in here and pushes these apart and luckily the one we have is pne Hopefully it will do short work of these. Now that the thyroid ends are loose we just need to undo the bolts that hold the idler. There's two nuts one is over here and the other one over here they are 70 millimeter so just need to undo those. We put a wrench on the other side and then we can use a socket and extension and ratchet on t Next we have to push the bolts through here are the old bolts from the old idler and the new ones and we can see the new ones are longer and let's transfer the washers to the new bolt and we can reuse the nuts if they are in good condition. Let's reinstall the new idler. Let's put on the washer and the nut. All we have to do now is to attach the center ring and the thyroid end to the arm of the idler. I'm going to use a wrench to tighten these nuts and sometimes t