<VV> Dummy transaxle for transport (Humor) AAAA+++++

Louis Armer carmerjr at mindspring.com
Thu Aug 16 12:36:59 EDT 2007


That is one for the Book !!!  LOL and enjoying the mind picture of 
you and your wife ;-)
Kudos to you for a real gem

da Chuckster
Chuck Armer
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At 11:03 AM 8/16/2007, you wrote:

>  This all reminds me of an episode in my Corvair life
>from a few years ago. I was junking a late car with no
>transaxle. I have more trailing arms than I will ever
>need, so I left them on the car. I winched it up on
>the trailer nose first and went off to the yard. Well
>getting the beast off was a whole 'nother story. As
>soon I tried to roll it back off, the wheels went out
>sideways and it stopped. Not a probelm right? I jacked
>it up (I was smart enough to bring the floor jack), to
>block up wheels and tie the strut rods together to get
>it off. Didn't work - tires rubbed against the fender
>wells. Tried taking the tires off, but with no impact
>wrench, they just spun - nothing to adequately block
>them as they were on the deck of the trailer. I was
>trying to be slick and do this all on an extended
>lunch break from work, so I was starting to feel the
>pressure of the added delays. So from all this comes a
>stroke of genius, or was it a case of heat stroke?
>There was an ancient dump truck parked close to the
>drop spot. I chained the hulk to the dump truck, stood
>back and told the wife to pull the rig forward and
>figured it would drag the tires on the trailer, but
>otherwise come off pretty well. Wouldn't you know that
>after 25 years, the old truck decided to take a
>stroll. A string of profanity prompted my wife to stop
>the rig, which didn't stop the dump truck - more
>profanity got her moving forward - up the hill and
>ended the excitement without collision. The car was
>still on the trailer.
>  I eventually made a framework of lumber and used the
>floor jack to ease the thing off the trailer and was
>back very late from lunch. A year later I cut the next
>car up into pieces that could be disposed of by
>hand....
>
>  Live and learn,
>
>  Mike
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