A little over 700 miles round trip, the old Beater Chebby never missed a beat.
Speaking of beat, I am.
I have a bunch of catching up to do but first I am going to kick back and take a nap.
It’s been a long day.
My thanks to Cederq for keeping the joint running like my old truck while I was gone.
UPDATE:
Just got a call from my Brother.
He and his girl plus a few hundred other people are sitting at a dead stop on the other side of Mt. Hood.
He has no internet so I did a quick search and found that BOTH DIRECTIONS four miles up the road from where he is sitting are closed due to a vehicle fire and there are no ways around.
Now I’m damn glad I got up early and hauled ass home and it sucks to be them.
My Grandfather taught me how to drive a stick while I was sitting on his lap at 8 years old.
I still remember it was in a little Datsun and as soon as he thought I had figured it out and turned me loose, the first thing I did was to rev it up and dump the clutch to throw gravel everywhere.
He chewed my ass for it because he thought I didn’t know what I was doing.
Heh.
I have always hated automatic transmissions and still do.
If you have ever torn into one to fix it, put it back in only to find out some stupid little seal didn’t work and had to tear it back out and back down again to find it, put it all back together and reinstall it again, you will understand.
After I got done slapping some front brake pads on my pickup the other day, I took it for a test spin and then pulled into the driveway and parked it.
I was out getting the mail yesterday and as I was walking back towards the house I see this crap under my truck.
What the fuck now?
Just out of the blue something starts leaking?
So I skinnied under the cocksucker to see if I could figure out what it was and where it was coming from.
Transmission fluid.
WTF?
Get this, coming from the middle of the front driveline yoke behind the U Joint.
WTF?
You can see the rear seal is basically dry and you can also see where it was slinging it onto the catalytic converter.
There was actually a drop hanging off the bottom U Joint cap there, this is after I wiped it off.
This is something I haven’t seen before.
This transmission was literally rebuilt right before I got this truck and I was even given the receipt for it.
Off to the Internet I go.
Could be a couple of things apparently.
Could be an O ring inside the tail shaft housing or it could be a little metal plug in the end of the yoke much like a freeze plug.
Since I am both lazy and a bit of a gambler, I opted for the quick and dirty attempt at a solution here.
This stuff is The Shit.
It beats regular RTV silicone like a red headed step child.
It’s also expensive, $25 for that little Cheeze Whiz can.
So I sprayed an entire can of Brake Clean up in between the yoke and the U Joint, wiped it off as best I could and then shot a VERY liberal amount of this Right Stuff up in there and spread it around with a flat blade screwdriver.
It is curing as I type.
If it fixes it cool.
If it doesn’t, I’m going to take the fucker somewhere and let somebody else headache with the bastard.
I’m not laying on a slanted slab of concrete under the sonofabitch and pulling the driveline, yoke and ass end of the transmission out.
Fuck That.
I’m flat out getting too old for that shit and I already have a To Do list that would choke a horse.
