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Truck stuff
Mar. 7th, 2007 07:13 pmThe transmission on the truck has been slowly getting worse for the last year or so. Since there's 191k miles on the truck, that's not unexpected. It doesn't seem to leak much, but it always seems to need more fluid, and it's starting to shift hard in the lower gears.
I dropped it off at the transmission shop on Monday night (they didn't want it Monday during the day as they wouldn't get to it until Tuesday at the earliest). Today they took the tranny apart, and it's not going to be the $600 "replace the gaskets and fix the leak" repair we were hoping for. They're doing a complete rebuild instead. Once they had the tranny apart they found a lot more wear than they were happy with, so, since we've got tax return money, we're having them rebuild the whole thing (mechanicals, clutch faces, seals, electronics...). They hope to have the whole thing done by Tuesday.
Yes, I happen to have picked one of the slower transmission places in town, but they're also the one I went to with the old truck, and the last time I had problems with the current truck (both of which were cheap and quick repairs). They're also annoyingly far away (south of the belt line).
I dropped it off at the transmission shop on Monday night (they didn't want it Monday during the day as they wouldn't get to it until Tuesday at the earliest). Today they took the tranny apart, and it's not going to be the $600 "replace the gaskets and fix the leak" repair we were hoping for. They're doing a complete rebuild instead. Once they had the tranny apart they found a lot more wear than they were happy with, so, since we've got tax return money, we're having them rebuild the whole thing (mechanicals, clutch faces, seals, electronics...). They hope to have the whole thing done by Tuesday.
Yes, I happen to have picked one of the slower transmission places in town, but they're also the one I went to with the old truck, and the last time I had problems with the current truck (both of which were cheap and quick repairs). They're also annoyingly far away (south of the belt line).
