Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
- Location
- far enough away
hahahah oh wait. 
that's better.
So after finding out (and yes, I should have known) that the u-pullit yards on 21st have an age limit on admittance, I decided to go to PM Truck Parts to try and get a !@#@! NP241 tailshaft housing, as mine was soundly beaten by a driveshaft after the 16yr old never-been-changed u-joint broke, sending it flying about. Said beating resulted in an ATF-bleeding leak.
So they get me one off "a core, I think that one with the cracked case", I get ready with the <$20. So, how much? "$40". For a part off a cracked case? whaaaaat??? Thank you very much. This from the same people who KNOW much better than I possibly could (because they've been doing this longer than I've been out of diapers, of course) that in 1978, Chevy did too use split rims: regular rims were an option then.
I should have known, and I will not make that mistake again. So, PM TRUCK PARTS! Y'all get the gas face, b*tches! Suck it!
and now for the fun part: The other yard had one too. The truck it was in was busted all to hell, looked like a train hit it, frame rails pointind hard left.... bellhousing on the auto tranny broken clean off, driveshaft cracked in 3pcs, and look at my luck! the entire output shaft is broken out of the case! Sweet! I'll just grab this yoke and slide it right of...... what? it's stuck? shooooot... well, maybe there's a snapring or something stupid on these newer ones (no, that makes no sense, but I was very hot in the Magna sun, forgive me).. Take off the 4 bolts holding the tailshaft housing on... and LOOOK AT THE TWISTED SPLINES!!!! aaaaaaaa!!!
I beat all 27 of them straight with my Craftsman framing hammer (32oz). Felt like John Henry doing it too... TING! TINGTINGTING TING!!!
anway, in case any of you ever have to do that, it can be done. Makes the normally maybe 2minute job take about 25 though. Those splines like being twisted. OH YEAH! the tailshaft housing was $8.50 there. So even paying myself a buck a minute I still saved money by NOT BUYING FROM PM TRUCK PARTS, PROUD RECIPIENT OF.... THE GAS FACE.
step into the AM the PM till the dawn, yo! aaahahahahahaha
that's better. So after finding out (and yes, I should have known) that the u-pullit yards on 21st have an age limit on admittance, I decided to go to PM Truck Parts to try and get a !@#@! NP241 tailshaft housing, as mine was soundly beaten by a driveshaft after the 16yr old never-been-changed u-joint broke, sending it flying about. Said beating resulted in an ATF-bleeding leak.
So they get me one off "a core, I think that one with the cracked case", I get ready with the <$20. So, how much? "$40". For a part off a cracked case? whaaaaat???
Thank you very much. This from the same people who KNOW much better than I possibly could (because they've been doing this longer than I've been out of diapers, of course) that in 1978, Chevy did too use split rims: regular rims were an option then. I should have known, and I will not make that mistake again. So, PM TRUCK PARTS! Y'all get the gas face, b*tches! Suck it!
and now for the fun part: The other yard had one too. The truck it was in was busted all to hell, looked like a train hit it, frame rails pointind hard left.... bellhousing on the auto tranny broken clean off, driveshaft cracked in 3pcs, and look at my luck! the entire output shaft is broken out of the case! Sweet! I'll just grab this yoke and slide it right of...... what? it's stuck? shooooot... well, maybe there's a snapring or something stupid on these newer ones (no, that makes no sense, but I was very hot in the Magna sun, forgive me).. Take off the 4 bolts holding the tailshaft housing on... and LOOOK AT THE TWISTED SPLINES!!!! aaaaaaaa!!!
I beat all 27 of them straight with my Craftsman framing hammer (32oz). Felt like John Henry doing it too... TING! TINGTINGTING TING!!!
anway, in case any of you ever have to do that, it can be done. Makes the normally maybe 2minute job take about 25 though. Those splines like being twisted. OH YEAH! the tailshaft housing was $8.50 there. So even paying myself a buck a minute I still saved money by NOT BUYING FROM PM TRUCK PARTS, PROUD RECIPIENT OF.... THE GAS FACE.
step into the AM the PM till the dawn, yo! aaahahahahahaha
