Friday, October 17, 2008

How much is that new transmission gonna cost?

Up until Wed. of this week, I honestly thought that we were going to leave by Tues. or Wed. at the latest of next week. Guess all my wishful thinking came true. We put the truck (Dodge Ram 3500 diesel, of course) in the shop to put in a lift pump that we should have put in last year when the old one went bad...700 miles South of the Border! Ack! We were stuck at our friend's house in Scorpion Bay for something like a week before we finally gave up and took a bus up to San Diego and John got online with some Gearheads that knew all about this particular problem. He replaced the old lift pump with another one but we needed to do some after-market engineered thing that we have been putting off for the past year. Anyways, putting that thing in and general maintenance found that we needed a new transmission....$4000 and it won't be done until next Wed.


sigh.

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