A New Year Dawns
ByAfter the Winter we suffered through last year, who would ever have thought we could be seeing weather like this. I’ll admit our weather the last 12 months has been more than challenging, what with a Tornado, Hurricane, Blizzard, Hail Storms and Micro-Bursts, even an Earthquake!! Who could have imagined we could see 60 degree temps in January!! Yet here we are, yesterday I couldn’t resist and pulled the “Gray Lady” out of her slumber, took her out for a spin, topped off the fuel tank, turned a few heads, finished up by cleaning her and recovering her.
Turned up an issue while out, we have been having a minor tranny leak all season from the front seal. Now with her laid up for a while it seems to have gotten much worse and my be more than just a seal. The only issue with the car we never dealt with was the transmission, we’ve run it a thousand miles, and now we have no choice but to rebuild it. Ahhh well, we debated doing it when the car was apart, but everyone said to just put it in and run it. Just delayed the inevitable I guess.
Problem is, this past week I also found that I need to rebuild the tranny in my GMC Savana 3500 too!!!! Geez…looks like it won’t be a pleasant Spring with about a 5K expense to start the year with. Could be worse I guess, but for now both of them are put away for the rest of the Winter and early tomorrow morning I hop in the Chevy HHR for the 1400 mile trek down to South Florida. We’ll try to take in a couple shows while there and I will pop in if I turn up anything interesting.
