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Got the Camaro back on the road.

 
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rjmcgee
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:28 pm    Post subject: Got the Camaro back on the road. Reply with quote

Finished up the tranny this weekend and got it put in today. Works pretty good considering I didn't buy a single part for it. Took the two broken T5's and made on good one. All the other one will need now is new shift forks and a rebuild kit. After I tore apart the one that lost 5th up at Cows it is a wonder that I got it home. About 90% of the 3 - 4 shift fork was broken off and had been chewed up in the tranny. I believe that is what made me loose 5th, all the ground up fork material fouled the 5th gear syncro so it wouldn't shift. A couple more hard 3rd or 4th gear shifts and I would have been down to only 1st and 2nd. Laughing

Then I really would have had a long trip home.
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Schultzy89GTA
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Location: Gresham, OR

1989 Pontiac GTA

PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thumbs up Way to go Hammer Man! This isn't going to change the driving philosophy is it?

-Schultzy

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rjmcgee
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope.


Took her out for a test tonight, took it easy for about 5 miles, just to check everything out.


Then flogged it for about 20 miles. Laughing


I only know one way to drive it. Cool
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Schultzy89GTA
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1989 Pontiac GTA

PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ya, baby, ya Burnout Rock on!

/A. Powers

-Schultzy
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83Z28BlackBetty
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1983 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28

PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HAHAHAH Way to go Rod!!! Rock on! Burnout

~JAKE

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Quasi-Traction
"I have petals"


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Location: stumptown

1986 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta

PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Man.....I want your kind of luck Rod.

Maybe you should go buy a lottery ticket... Wink

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Xophertony
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Joined: 13 Oct 2005
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Location: Portland, Oregon.

1988 Pontiac GTA

PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NOTHING will kill a lucky streak like trying to make money off of it. Shocked

for real though, nice work Rod, opening up a transmission seems like quite a daunting task to me. how many times have you done it now?
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rjmcgee
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Xophertony wrote:
, opening up a transmission seems like quite a daunting task to me. how many times have you done it now?



Counting this time, once. Laughing
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Twilightoptics
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1987 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z

PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's intimidating at first but if you're organized about it, it's not bad at all.

Hell even gutting a TH350 and putting it back together wasn't all that tough.
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Xophertony
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1988 Pontiac GTA

PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rjmcgee wrote:
Counting this time, once. Laughing


jeeze... you got some nuts rod. was it just like, crazy when you cracked it open or what? it seems to me i would just sit there staring at all the pretty shiny things afraid to touch anything. Sad
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Jenn
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1987 Pontiac Firebird

PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy
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