On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 20:31:35 -0400, John H.
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On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:59:54 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:04:01 -0400, John H.
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 12:34:48 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote:

On Monday, July 9, 2018 at 12:05:56 PM UTC-4, John H wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:32:08 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 06:23:28 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 16:16:24 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 13:35:48 -0400, John H.
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And, most importantly, didn't break anything on the RV. But...I think a wheel bearing seal is
leaking so will get the bearings repacked (or replaced) and resealed tomorrow.

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Heh, why should land cruising be different than boat cruising? The
definition of boat cruising is fixing things in exotic places. And of
course "BOAT" stands for Break Out Another Thousand.

RV's aren't quite as bad. But they do require a fair amount of maintenance. A new member of our
camping group had just bought his 5th wheel trailer and brought it to a campout for the first time.
He'd bought a rig that had been sitting on the dealer's lot for a few years. His refrigerator wasn't
working. I asked if he had the manual and he had to go look. When he came out he said he wasn't
'mechanically oriented'. I told him he'd better get mechanically oriented, or rich, or an automobile
and stay in motels.

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That goes double for boats. We just had to pay a mechanic to fix a
minor but annoying oil leak on the port engine. It required special
tools, parts and skills (two new high pressure hoses) or I would have
tackled it myself. After waiting in the job queue for several weeks
we finally got it fixed. Total tab? About a boat buck.




Boat costs are ridiculous. Since I've owned the truck, two 'modules' have gone bad - the
transmission module and the glow plug module. Parts and labor in both cases was almost a boat buck.
Unreal.

I 'spect if Tim lived close enough, he could have fixed 'em!

My 1989 Chevy 1500 yard truck recently lost a transmission at 165k miles. Local shops were quoting around $2800 to install a rebuilt 700R4 tranny.

I did it on the concrete pad in front of my shop up on 6 ton jackstands with a 3.5 ton floor jack. Half a day to pull it, most of a day to put the rebuilt one back in. A couple of days and a few ibuprofen to recover.
Around $900 all in.

Next time I'll probably pay the man.

When younger, I had a '67 MGBGT. Clutch throwout bearing was out when I bought it. Had to remove
engine and transmission to fix it. Don't think I'd do it all now.

I had to put the main shaft bearing in the transmission on my jeep.
That involves pulling the transmission and the transfer case.
The main shaft bearing is the first thing they put into the empty
casting when they make one so I know a lot about Borg Warner 3 speed
transmissions. It really wasn't bad but I was 28. I wouldn't hesitate
to tear down the transmission but I want someone else to pull it. To
start with, I gave away the transmission jack I built to do it.
I also had the rear axle apart several times. It took me a while to
get the new gear carrier shimmed right.
I had to pull the shift rod out of a 74 Mustang II transmission but
you can do that from the top, sitting in the driver's seat. ;-)

In 1974 I bought a new Volvo. We went to the drive in theatre down off Indian Head Highway that
evening. When the movie was over, I pulled the shift (floor mounted stick) over and pushed the stick
up into reverse. The stick came right out of the tranny in my hand. By jamming the stick back down
in the transmission and fiddling around, I was finally able to get the car into third gear. Drove
back to the dealer in Alexandria and parked the car in front of the service department bay doors
with the stick on the dash. Next morning I got a frantic call to come move my car. Told them to send
a taxi. They did. The relationship went downhill after that. That Volvo was a piece of ****.

Anyway, your mention of the Mustang prompted that story.

This was the same kind of thing. My ex was at some kind of business
thing downtown and the shifter stopped working. I threw some tools in
the car and went down there. I was able to pull the console and get
the top off the transmission right there in the parking garage. It was
obvious the shifter just bolted to the end of the shift shaft that
goes through the synchronizers and selects the gears. I pushed the car
over to the opposite parking place so I could drive straight out.
clamped my vice grips on the shaft and managed to find 2d and 4th. I
drove it home that way. It turned out there was a threaded stud on the
shaft (that was unobtainium locally) and it sheared off. I took it to
a machine shop guy who chucked it up on a lathe, threaded a hole where
the stud was and I put a grade 8 bolt in there $20.
... Better than new ;-)