AlaskanJack
Elite Cabin-Fever Captain
- Joined
- March 24, 2002
- Messages
- 4,531
- Reaction score
- 2
- City, State
- Centralia, Washington
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 91 , 93 & 01 Sports
I have been really patient with the repair shop that has my 93 Sport. The guys son towed it to the shop and when letting it down off the tow truck it wouldn't budge so the kid kicked it really hard and something snapped. Well the something was my output shaft on my 5spd tranny.
The shop is now telling me that he has done a lot of calling around and it's like 1200 for a rebuild. As far as I know no tranny shop has looked at it, and they are telling him that they can't just replace the output shaft because more likely there is more damge internally in the tranny.
The shop has had my Ex since February and he kept promissing to pull the tranny and get it to a tranny shop. I bet the damn tranny is still under the truck. He said even a used tranny locally was 1,000. I doubt that!!
I am half tempted to just have the Explorer towed to my house and do the work on it myself. I've got the new t-case for it at home anyway. He told me to just go see if I could find a new or rebuilt tranny and he'd slap it in and get me on my way.
Am I getting BS'd here???
The shop is now telling me that he has done a lot of calling around and it's like 1200 for a rebuild. As far as I know no tranny shop has looked at it, and they are telling him that they can't just replace the output shaft because more likely there is more damge internally in the tranny.
The shop has had my Ex since February and he kept promissing to pull the tranny and get it to a tranny shop. I bet the damn tranny is still under the truck. He said even a used tranny locally was 1,000. I doubt that!!
I am half tempted to just have the Explorer towed to my house and do the work on it myself. I've got the new t-case for it at home anyway. He told me to just go see if I could find a new or rebuilt tranny and he'd slap it in and get me on my way.
Am I getting BS'd here???