Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:41:49 -0800
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Baja Shakedown
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We found the Club Cruceros out of Marina La Paz to be a great source of
local knowledge about special needs. They sent us to the Pepsi bottling
plant in La Paz to have some exotic welding done on a boat fitting we'd
broken in Bahia Conception...There is also a very helpful guy (or there
was) who runs Manfred's RV park in Cd. Constitution...all a distance from
(ugly) Guerro Negro..I wouldn't bother with Santa Rosilia...they don't seem
very friendly with tourists there, though we did spend some time playing
pool in a real dive pool hall there and had some fun once, while waiting
for the ferry. Cd. Constitution might be your best bet...there are some
Baja 1000 race teams that call that home, probably point you to someone
who could weld up the case without taking it out, etc..
Look on it as part of the adventure....I once spent two weeks camped and
rebuilding a dodge van in the sand, with pliers, vice grips and borrowed
crescent wrenches.... south of Mulege...It's Baja...things rarely go
according to plan, but they usually work out just fine..
Don Hanson
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:39 PM, miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com>wrote:
> We just arrived in Gerrero Negro, staying at a nice little rv park,
> Malarrimo, across the street from a known good welder. Yup, have a
> small, hairline crack, on tranny case, just forward of diff, on DS,
> where diff butts to tranny. It only weeps, but am afraid of the crack
> spreading and dumping contents, so am stopping frequently and checking
> tranny level (91 Syncro.) We shall see what happens tomorrow. My
> question is, what is the material that I'm proposing to have welded?
> Is it aluminum or some exotic alloy?
> In Bahia De Los Angeles, I had one of the local mechanics look at it
> and he tried to JB Weld it, but the weeping impeded all efforts to get
> this goop to adhere. He then applied bar soap to it and it
> miraculously stopped leaking. My girlfriend thought that was
> hilarious, but I wasn't laughing much, knowing the damned thing was
> going to continue leaking....which it did, a couple of miles out of
> town.
> Any ideas welcomed, thank you very much!
> In the mean time, Fritz has been running like a big champ, without a
> hiccup. The beaches are beautiful, the people friendly as always, the
> food deliciosa!
> Back to the current issue, any advice appreciated. Just what is the
> material?....and yes, I have emailed German Transaxle for advice.
> BTW internet has been scarce and unreliable when found......
> Gracias,
> Miguel
>
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> Miguel
>
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