RE: fitting a gearbox

["Nick Koleszar" <npk@domain.elided>]

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> Message: 3
>    Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:39:12 EDT
>    From: moundmail@domain.elided
> Subject: fitting a gearbox
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> I fitted one to my Alfetta GTV about 15 years ago in the rain
> using just a
> wobbly trolley jack and some axle stands. My sleep is still
> troubled by this
> nightmare even now (except that in my dreams I'm not wearing any clothes).
>
> So no thanks...


Nice....

I'll take your bid and raise you.

In the 80s, I removed the engine and gearbox from a 1972 VW transporter, in
Canada, in the winter, outside, while it was snowing and cold. On a gravel
drive. I didn't want to have to remove the carbs and their high-rise
manifolds, so I jacked the bastard up till the rear end was about 4 feet off
the ground, propped it on breeze-block and wood (stupid, stupid, stupid...)
and had to work slowly, wrapped in many layers under the overalls, regularly
stuffing my hands in my armpits to warm them up for 20 second stabs at
undoing nuts, bolts, cables, etc. Got it done, though. what a bitch. just
because of a broken clutch.

I don't dream about it though. Had I not been wearing any clothes I would
have turned into just another sad news story, "Area man dies of exposure(!)
trying to pull tranny."

nk

Nick Koleszar   koleszar@domain.elided
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1971 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super 2.0
1990 Alfa Romeo 75 3.0 QV
1993 Mini
1990-ish Rotax 125cc/Gbox kart
1926 Amilcar C6 (I wish....)
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