Ditto. The days of laying on my back for car repair ended with swapping
the 3 speed manual out of my 66 Mustang, and "slipping" in a 4 speed
with Hurst shifter. That was 35 years ago.
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John Hermanson | CPS, Inc.
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Olympus OM Service since 1977
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On 11/15/2010 9:07 PM, NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 11/15/2010 4:57:23 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> The
> car has 210,000 miles and the engine is in perfect condition.
>
> I'm only about 5000 miles ahead of you on my '04 Suburban. Engine runs
> great and about 100,000 of the miles are on a new rebuilt transmission. When
> this one heads south, it will probably get another rebuild.
>
> Your story of replacing the transmission yourself reminds me of my days in
> college when I was on my back in a bunch of gravel trying to stab a manual
> transmission back in my Chevelle. Kept breaking the arm that held the
> throw out bearing in place. Then there was the time I was replacing the
> power
> steering hose on a previous Suburban in the eye of a Hurricane that was
> passing over Houston. I'd actually done it before just before the hurricane
> hit, however when the little spring loaded valve jumped out of the hose and
> landed on the ground I'd guessed wrong and put it in backwards. So, as the
> eye passed over . . .
>
> These memories remind of some of the choices I've been able to make later
> in life. Choices like finally being at a point to where paying someone to do
> it rather than being under the car with a heavy transmission on your chest
> was the solution. Your day will come.
>
> Bill Barber
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