Well, unfortunately, my 1998 Metro (The Zimmer in profile) has a major problem with the transmission internally. Some bearings are grinding really bad and I cannot drive it anymore until I find a decent replacement and purchase a new clutch kit. This really saddens me since the car is a 1998 and so far has had a lot of repairs needed since I got it from rebuilding the head, exhaust, brakes, etc and the frame also needs some attention before long and now the transmission is toast
At least my old reliable Chevy 4X4 (Black Betty in profile) has never let me down in the last 6 years of ownership even with me neglecting repairs
I have been busy the last couple days on my truck. I had a set of manifolds given to me from a friend (mine were both cracked) and got a couple donut gaskets and fixed the entire exhaust from manifolds back with 2 1/2" straight pipe and reused my Chery Bomb muffler. I also tuned it up with a fresh oil change, cap, rotor, plugs, wires, fuel filter, etc.
The best part was finding a very used hard bed cover at a yard sale Friday for a whopping $20.00
I started my ecomodding with the above repairs and also.............
Removed Trailer Hitch
Hyper-inflated tires to 50 PSI
Removed weight from behind seats and emptied the bed
Installed the bed cover
Using driving tips from here
Check out the pics.....................
I also went and filled the fuel tank today and am going to see if I can improve the MPG from around 10 to 16 or better. The fill-up cost me $92.00
Now some of you may say why not just fix the car with the money you blew on the truck. Well, I spent roughly $80.00 on tune-up and exhaust repairs and another $20.00 for the used cover. I did all this in about 10 hours and 15 beers and all of these neglected items on my truck were way overdue. Also, finding a decent trans is not easy for the Metro. There are a few in local scrapyards, but either they have over 200,000 miles on them or asking price is way too much for a $400.00 piece of crap car that I am a little pissed at right now for letting me down. Normally, any beater car that I get goes to the scrapyard when any major issues come up and this car already had one fixed and still has two more issues needing attention, so it can sit where it is until I decide to fix it. I even kicked it today and left a huge dent that was not really intended to be that bad, but yeah, whatever.
It was nice driving the old gas hog today. The acceleration was effortless, the automatic transmission was smooth, and the sound emitting from the tail-pipe was pleasing to my ears and less loud than the grinding metal gearbox in the Metro. She is black, sleek, and sexy and lets me pound her all I want without ever a complaint after all the years I have been using her.
