[tcb] Re: Murray lives!
- From: Eric Woodall <ericthomaswoodall@xxxxxxx>
- To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 18:30:03 -0500
Derrick is a class act!
That's awesome that they hooked you up!
On Jun 7, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Brad Tripp <bradtripp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Great story Denis, .........Yea Wayout........Brad
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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