[tcb] Re: Murray lives!
- From: Brad Tripp <bradtripp@xxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:47:00 -0500
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.
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> --- 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> At home I took Murray off his trailer and took him out for a beer run. Like
> a Swiss watch.
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> 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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