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Old 03-11-2014, 09:57 PM   #1
Andy4639
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Well I took the truck over to the local transmission place today to have the new wiring connector installed and service the transmission. The connector was leaking pretty bad.

Guy comes back in the office and said I need to come look at something.

Oh great now what. My week hasn't gone so well guys on anything and now this, it just got worse!

Anyway back to the transmission. The drive shaft is only up in the transmission 2", yes thats right 2". The bushing is shot at the tail of the transmission and they think the one inside the transmission is shot to. So we take the pan off and it's full of bronze are brass whatever it's made out of. Then we inspect the yoke that Hawks installed and it's got wear marks and gouges all over it. Not a new one like he said. So the transmission people want $600.00 to $800.00 to do it and I said put it back and I'm going to Hawks now.
I get to Hawks and have to wait about 20 minutes for Bruce to get there. I tell him everything that we found at the transmission shop and he says I will take care of it. So the truck is at his place waiting to have the transmission and drive shaft redone. The drive shaft is about 2 1/2" to short for the truck, so I had to take him my other shaft that he has to cut and fix. I'm not a really happy person tonight. I was suppose to drive it to Myrtle Beach next week for the car show!
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