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 > > 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. > > > > 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! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.volksmeisters.com > http://den-a.plr.liquidcompass.net/player/flash/audio_player.php?id=KTHXFM&uid=278