going to buy another big old van that has automatic shift trannsmission, especially with a throttle body, or otherwise fuel injection or power brakes, power steering, power anythings.Just not worth it. cuhulin
Is it back to the '70s for you?
Dont really understand your post.
About seven years ago, the automatic transmission in my 1978 Dodge van konked out.It cost me about $880.00 to have it rebuilt at the Dr.Transmission shop.Manual shift trasmissions with clutches are much, much better and far less expensive for me to repair myself, I can do a clutch job in no time for much less money. cuhulin
Depends on the car. :) I have a 2001 Trans Am. Needs a new clutch. Been dreading it all last year - it's tight under there. And a new clutch and flywheel is close to $1000. You can't reuse the stock flywheel, and my clutch is done from abuse (nitrous) so I can't even blame GM. The double-crappy part is I already know that once I replace the clutch in the spring the rear end is on borrowed time. But, my motto is "Drive it like you stole it" so you gotta pay to play. :)
The stock GM 4L60's in these things hold up better, but it's just not the same as grabbing a gear and leaving 10 feet of black stripes...
Ray
Last time I did a clutch job, (I don't remember which old vehicle) it cost me less than $40.00 for a new rebuilt clutch disk and a new throw out bearing.I took my sweet time, I had it all done in less than two hours.Clutches Rule! cuhulin
So, you'll be looking for a sixties Volkswagewn Microbus?
For the past few weeks, you've posted at various times how you don't like/can't work on throttle body injection and now it's automatic transmissions that are stuck in your craw.
Tell you what, oldtimer - why don't you go way back and find ya a car that don't have one a them pesky, unreliable electric starters. They break down sometimes ya know! Hand crankin is how God intended us to start a car! And how's about a good old set of manual brakes. Them there hydraulic brakes, you're just askin fer trubble! That fluid'll leak out someday and then where'll ya be?
Keep on a goin and you'll be a ridin a horse!!!
It seems that you stopped learning about how to repair motor vehicles around 1979 or so. I've replaced points and overhauled carbs myself. A lot. But I'm wise enough to know there's a better way now. Fuel injection and electronic ignition are so much better than the old ways that it doesn't even compare.
Oh, and watch out fer them dang tubless tires!
For the past few weeks, you've posted at various times how you don't like/can't work on throttle body injection and now it's automatic transmissions that are stuck in your craw. ..... Keep on a goin and you'll be a ridin a horse!!!
I think his irritation has some basis in fact, and it is inflamed by the indications from Cuhulin that money is a bit tight.
If a person has plenty of money, he can buy some sort of new car, run it for
2-3** years, never change oil or tranny fluid, and get out from under it before it goes deep six. These are often people who brag they bought this or that and never had a moment's problems.If, however, one is a bit tight on cash and has to have something that will last or, at least, can be repaired cheaply, then the newer American cars may be disappointing. (In fact, let's not limit it to American cars).
And when you buy someone else's used car**, you never know how it has been treated and what is lurking in the bowels of the beast.
With new GM modular fuel pumps costing around $500 (and other examples could easily be given), one might well want to avoid some of the modern technology.
We are a use-it and lose-it society nowadays.
A use it, lose it, and take-it-in-the-ass society. Really amazing.
Electric cars will, in principle, solve a lot of this, but the CorPirates will figger out a way to sufficiently bureaucratize something as simple as a g-d battery, electric motor, and 4 wheels, that we will STILL be hamstrung, blowing CorPirate Merka/DMV, and taking it in the ass.
I wanted to keep my 1990 Mazda 929S--great effing car, yo--MB 450 knockoff, and knocked off perty good. But no parts. And the salvage yard gave me $150 for my beaut, and then crushed it, alloy aluminum rims, separately mounted snow tires, and all!!
And if there were parts for this car, cuz it somehow became a classic, then I'd be paying $750 for a rear lens, and $1250 for the heated motorized side mirror.
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