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Old 08-21-2008, 11:58 AM   #430 (permalink)
bennelson
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A not-so-distant junkyard claims to have a car the same year, engine, and tranny as mine. Guy on the phone said they were going to sell it as a used car, but a piston blew right when he went to start it up.

They are asking $275 for the transmission.

A local tranny guy who does work on the side, said it would be $250-$500 labor to fix my tranny. There is another tranny guy I wanted to go talk to, but I haven't got a call back from him yet.

So far, it sounds like this junkyard transmission would be the easiest way to go. At $150 for a rebuild kit, doing it myself would be the cheapest, scariest way to do it.




Wait a minute, Geo Metro in ok condition, other than a dead engine? Could become Electro-Metro number 2!

Great, now I wonder how much they want for the whole thing...
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