Today is Wednesday, the plan is to leave for LA Friday morning. Right now the RPU is at Walts Rod and Custom on jack stands and the 5 speed is at the tranny shop. I could not get it to shift into reverse when it was hot. Also wanted to "crunch" into 2cd. After we readjusted the clutch several times, we decided to jack the body back up and remove the tranny. In our conversion, I mentioned the oillite bushing that I put in the crank end, Wally says it is supposed to be a bearing on a T5. That was part of the decision to pull the tranny also. The bushing fit a little loose, that might be part of the problem, the tranny shop says heat from the exhaust could also causing the slave not to work right, that could be part of the problem too. Since the tranny was out, it was decided to have them look inside. Wally pulled some strings and got it in the shop right away, like at noon today. I am waiting for a phone call with an update. Hopefully it will go back to Wally's tonight and we can put it back in tomorrow morning.
Last year, the blue roadster's 350 automatic came out about 4 days before we left too, Lumpy and I did that, and the shop squeezed us in at once too. Different shop, but both guys are great. This shop does only manual gearboxes and are real good at it. The bearing is to be at O'Rileys this afternoon. stay tuned for updates. We'll make it yet!!
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