What a couple of weeks it's been for me and my fleet of over the hill rigs. I'm running out of cars, as they've all decided to break at the same time. Week before last the clutch disk in my Nissan Sentra decided to finish coming apart. I've been babying it along for last couple of years and it finally decided to let loose. Last week, the 6r80 in the wife's Expedition threw some codes and started having delayed engagement in first and reverse. Pretty sure it's a valve body seal issue as there is a TSB. Today, the front pump seal in the E40D in my old F250 sprang a huge leak on the way home. My daughter's Jeep has been waiting for my lazy self to fix the transfer case and a leaking rear axle seal for months. So now we are down to my son's Buick, lovingly referred to as Ethel, 'cause its a "grandma car".
I gotta hurry up and get some cars fixed before Ethel kicks the bucket or we're going to be walking.
Still waiting on a flywheel for the Nissan, my transmission guy is still two weeks out on looking at the Expedition, and it's just way, way too dang hot to work on cars. For a New York second I even thought about shopping for a new car when I saw that puddle of transmission fluid under my truck.
Sweating in Seattle
I gotta hurry up and get some cars fixed before Ethel kicks the bucket or we're going to be walking.
Still waiting on a flywheel for the Nissan, my transmission guy is still two weeks out on looking at the Expedition, and it's just way, way too dang hot to work on cars. For a New York second I even thought about shopping for a new car when I saw that puddle of transmission fluid under my truck.
Sweating in Seattle
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