Now for the fun part...gettin
this stuff fixed...in the Galapagos????
And here’s where the news gets
goods, or at least as good as it can get when you are at the mercy of a
mechanic...his name is Ronnie...he’s just a kid...quiet, polite, and man is he
good.
He had the transmission dismantled,
off in his hands in less than a half hour....are you kidding me????
I was still struggling to
remove the hi output alternator, which we discovered had seized...when you see
your double pulley belts kinda melted to the pulley....good clue the bearings
are shot!.
Anyway...got it off...and away
Ronnie went...muttering something about my clutch damper plate ‘no bien’. Turns out the clutch damper plate was
broken, Ronnie thought he could fix it...turns out he couldn’t...he’s
human...so what...he tried...however, what he was smart enough to do was to
call mainland Ecuador and order a new one.
This was on a Friday afternoon....it arrived by air the next day....THE
NEXT DAY!!!!...he had the alternator fixed already...and was back on Monday to
install the transmission...I said something about could he look at the fuel
lift pump...and working without being able to see what he was doing...he removed
the pump...took it home and returned the next morning fixed like new. Ronnie is a genius! Much thanks to our good friends Jim and Carol
on Sv Somerset for that recommendation.
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