[tcb] Re: Murray lives!

That's why I have high fences and gates now.. Too much "help yourself"   You
excluded of course.. LOL


On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:45 AM, <wuzmop@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> We actually help each other alot in Dallas...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Tripp <bradtripp@xxxxxxx>
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 5:47 pm
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Murray lives!
>
> Sammie, are you sure it is 30-40 in the past...Maybe just maybe it is the
> future..let's hope
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>>   Denis:  Living in Arkansas is like living 30-40 years in the past.
>> There ain't no way that story is gonna happen in a city like Dallas.  Or
>> most anywhere else for that matter.
>>
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 6/7/11, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>* wrote:
>>
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>> From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [tcb] Murray lives!
>> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 9:03 AM
>>
>>    So, Friday Derrick and Danny, and I, mostly standing with my tool in
>> my hand, installed a new 412 transmission. Danny could not let Murray go
>> without rebuilding the brakes, he got all bent about the backing plate being
>> bent and he changed it (not many places where you can go out into the yard
>> and get a real German backing plate in just a few minutes) and the day ended
>> with my filthy engine still on the ground.
>>
>>  We put it in the back of my pickup and I brought it home and spent the
>> weekend cleaning and painting all the tin and replacing the plastic part
>> that the fuel pump sits on. It had a crack and I hope that was the oil leak
>> that I have been looking for.
>>
>> So Monday Danny did even more work on the brakes (the adjusting stars were
>> not working, and a bunch of stuff where I didn’t know was wrong and Danny
>> was just mumbling things I didn’t want to hear), and he adjusted the carb
>> linkage, we put the engine in. I connected all the wires (by the way, if you
>> disconnect the big black battery next to the engine, you also need to
>> disconnect the big orange accessory battery that you bought from Gerald
>> because you will still be getting sparking and won’t know why for a while).
>>
>> After I tried to start Murray up, and then remembered the vice grip on the
>> fuel line and took it off, then started him up he roared to life and had a
>> successful test drive. I put him on his trailer and blew a tire on the way
>> home. Somebody coming at me on the very narrow road forced the trailer wheel
>> into some rocks at the side of the road and bent the rim. Derrick came and
>> we took the wheel to “Dave’s”, a shop that was closed, but “Dave” was
>> sitting in his front yard drinking beer, and he got up and took a BIG ASS
>> HAMMER and fixed the bent rim good as new, filled the tire, checked for
>> leaks, took $10 bucks, and I was back on the road.
>>
>> At home I took Murray off his trailer and took him out for a beer run.
>> Like a Swiss watch.
>>
>> There was no money in this whole repair deal. I traded a tow dolly that I
>> never used for a transmission and help installing it. What I received was a
>> complete mechanical going through, front to back, way beyond the agreement.
>> Murray is in as good a shape as he may have ever been. What a deal! Yea for
>> Wayout!
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