it's done!

Mostly anyway. There were a couple seals and a cv driveshaft that had to be ordered and won't get here until the morning, but the clutch is done and the transaxle is back in the car! It should be on the road tomorrow barring some major catastrophe, like rain. Would have been done today but I could only work until 2 yesterday since I had to drive to Alabama.

A quick funny story - This morning I was under the car, transmission completely unbolted, just getting ready to start sliding it off the shaft and lower it down. Suddenly I heard this awful crashing sound that rattled me pretty good. After taking stock of the situation and finding everything was ok, I realized it was the neighbor's basketball goal being blown over onto his driveway by the wind. Nervous laughter, proceed with even more caution...

And now for the injury report - 2 very small scrapes and one tender fingertip that got whacked by something or another. I'm sure my lower back will be tender in the morning, but other than that I'm pretty good! I was just talking to Audra about when I pulled the tranny on that Jetta and how cut up my hands were after that one. Everything was so seized up that I had to pull on the wrench as hard as I could on everything, so when it would finally let loose my hands would fly until they met up with a stationary object. Over and over again. That was awful. That car never did get a whole lot better after that now that I think about it!