Some might recall my earlier message, about my car's suddenly losing its
Neutral condition, upon arriving at a remote gas station, on the
way-back, from Tulsa.
I retained Reverse, and could get all 3 gears, from the "1" button.
Last week, when Brent Burger's car's former 2.76 rear end was
installed..... (it works NICE, but he's not gonna win any drag races,
any more, but he WILL pass a lot more filling stations----and, no, I
haven't taken a road trip, yet, to see what the new MPG will
be)......but my shop reported that the culpret, for the transmission
anomaly was........simply, that one of the two bolts, that secure the
speedo/odo holding-bracket, to the pushbutton housing, worked loose and
dropped-out, allowing the speedo/odo cable to have too much slack, and
to lose the "N" operation.
How weird is that?
However, my "trusty" shop apparently may have not, (or may have
mis-)connected the Reverse-light switch, to the pushbutton housing,
because the car has no back-up lights; so, it looks like I'll have to
remove the pushbutton housing, and see what's-up, with the Reverse
switch.
Also, & this is a tad more serious, when the shop installed new front
brake lines , to see if the existing very-newish lines might be
defective, internally, (they weren't) , so as to cause an initial
braking-pull, that goes away, with a strong(er) brake application ,
they happened to remove the front wheels.
Turns out that the shop didn't adequately reinstall the right front
spinner hubcap.
YUP, after a short cruise, a few miles around our rural town, on FRI, I
parked the car @ my office, & returned to the car, about an hour later.
Whoops! No rt/ft wheelcover.
Drove the route 3 times, before writing-off the 'cap', which included a
24K plated knight's head, on the spinner (to duplicate the appearance of
the gold-laquered OEM Knight's Head).
Put the spare wheelcover on, which had been carried in the trunk.
SO, I need a reference for a 24K gold plater, PLEASE, to do-up one of my
other spare spinners!
Hey, you either drive your car(s), or you don't!
Neil Vedder
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