<VV> RE: Dummy transaxle for transport (Humor)

[Marc Marcoulides]

I also have many trailing arms, not just because I would replace any failed bearings with one from that collection, avoiding the necessity to have new ones pressed in. A second use of the trailing arms fit in to my daily work out routine, making it unnecessary to buy dumbells. I just don't have a story as good as a haunted dump truck.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Stillwell <yenko117 at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Aug 16, 2007 8:03 AM
>To: Darrin Hartzler <dhartzler at ifc.org>, craig nicol <nicolcs at aol.com>
>Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: Re: <VV> RE: Dummy transaxle for transport (Humor)
>
>
> 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
> 
>--- Darrin Hartzler <dhartzler at ifc.org> wrote:
>
>> Craig Nichol wrote:
>> 
>> "Why reinvent the wheel?  ... Nothing to fabricate,
>> nothing left out, 
>> nothing left to
>> chance."
>> 
>> Why Craig, reinventing the wheel is what gave us the
>> Donk! 
>> 
>> check -->    http://www.cardomain.com/features/donks
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> OK, so maybe it wasn't necessary. 
>> 
>> You may be quite right about the transaxle and I
>> have a few to choose from 
>> in the garage if I drive out there....was just
>> hoping to hear alot of 
>> experience from the gents...and there have been a
>> lot of very workable 
>> suggestions. 
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Darrin Hartzler
>> Bethesda, MD
>> CORSA/NoVa Corvairs
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