Monday, February 17, 2014

             We finally fixed everything with the seals and I peered under the back end and saw that there was fluid leaking so after a long process of obtaining the right tools ( a six ton jack was the hardest ) I disassembled the back wheel ends and found a bad slave cylinder and bearing seal I replaced them on both sides. During this process I learned that it is very important to be sure you are putting the correct pair of shoes on the correct side. I just thought that they would have saran wrapped them together in the correct pair… apparently I was wrong. we thought we finally repaired minnie winnie and we left trying to escape the snow storm lingering above us ... WE MADE IT 10 MORE MILES but she wasn't shifting up like she should so I had Daniel (cause its 2 degrees here)check the tranny fluid and it dumped an entire transmissions worth in the short distance. Now I pulled the bell housing cover off and  it looked like the front seal was leaking (the one we payed a mechanic to be replace because we didn't have the specialty tool(apparently a screw driver would have worked)) but it turned out that it was the vent that was spewing fluid ant the transmission is completely toast now we have to pay 900 bucks on top of all the money we spent on fluids and other parts to replace all those seals in  the transmission.... luckily we have the money but now we have to work up enough money to replenish our gas funds. Looks like we will be here a while. And now it has come to my attention that there are laws I needed to be researching because if I obstruct the river it’s about a 5000 dollar fine. But I have contacted the watershed organization in the area and the have directed me to the person I need to talk to . 

time this week and last= 65 hours

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  1. I ment to post this last week but for some reason it only went on my account as a draft... whoops!

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