Date:         Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:05:36 -0500
Reply-To:     Derek Drew <drew@INTERPORT.NET>
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From:         Derek Drew <drew@INTERPORT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Simple hello--Derek Drew to Dennis Haynes
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At 10:27 AM 11/7/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello Derek,
>Just wondering how things are going with your clutch/Trans project. Thought
>you would like to know that I now have a MIG welder. Now I can fabricate
>"accessories" for our vans.  My first project will be a tow bar so I can
>pull the camper behind the camper.  Let me know if you need more skid
>plates.
>
>Dennis

I was horrified to find out that my glorious new differential with diff
lock is the kind that has a solid shaft instead of viscous coupling.

I must have the only one of these in North America but I do not consider it
an asset as I prefer the VC to a bowdin cable.

As a result, I have acquired alternate used front diffs since my current
front diff has a cooked VC, as you know, and so I am short one good used VC.

Your newfound fabrication capability is appealing to me and I hope I can
use it. The trick is to park my van at your house, along with a checkbook
full of signed checks, and then come back six months later to see what my
van looks like.

The van remains in my garage, of course, since I am too busy to fix it.
This result is predictable. Possibly I can fix it over the Christmas holidays.

There are oil leaks from the area where the transmission and the motor
mate, I think, and also from the little cover plate on the trans covering
the creeper gear.

The transmission plate (six little bolts) got a leak as a result of my skid
plates being bashed up and hitting the skid plate into the transmission at
that point.

I have not gotten the transmission down primarily due to a lack of time to
do this work.


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Derek Drew                  New York, NY & Washington DC
ConsumerSearch
drew@interport.net
212-580-6486, 202-966-7907 (Work)
212-580-4459; 202-966-0938 (Home)
     (cell: 917-848-6425)