I had to take my son to the St. Louis Airport yesterday so I figured I would stop by Buzzsawyers place on the way home.
He met me at the gate with Shotgun in hand
We made our way up the soft muddy hill just in time to see his two girls making homeade pancakes. I knew I should have skipped breakfast in St. Louis.
We worked on splitting some wood from an old pin oak in his yard and managed to break his splitting maul.
Having exhausted all efforts to get him to fire up the mill and cut some lumber on his beast the burning desire to work on something took over and we tackled the transmission removal from his pickup.
He had come over to my place about 6 months ago for a load of WRC and a bunch of it was still in the truck as the truck was "clutchless" at the bottom of the hill ever since he got it home. He was lucky it broke there instead of somewhere between my place and his, which is about a three hour trip.
We managed to have the trany out in about an hour of labor but we did spend a couple hours debating on the numerous methods to do so
Don taking a hard look at the angle of the Jack
Note the wheel chock in front of the tire. You see, we didnt want the truck to roll..................................but didnt realy think about putting it on the back tire that was on the ground.
We had to take the top of the trany off to get it out as the shifter was about 2 foot long and we were not going to jack up the truck any more. We had to use a chain and both of our fat buts pulling on it to drag the bahemith out from under the truck.
We guessed that trany to weigh in about 250 lbs with the chain drive transfer case on it.
Once he gets the parts for the clucth I will schedule another trip over and help with the install.
