[losfinch]

Should be getting the shipping box tomorrow so I can freight the tranny back to BTS. He said that he'd get right on it...I sure hope so as I'm a long ways from home

 

[Bob7.3]

We actually live in Mexico (full-time missionaries down there since 1987). We went up to in El Paso, Texas for a 2 day shopping/supply run when it happened. We're very grateful it happened here and not out on the highway somewhere. We have a safe, comfortable place to be while waiting for it to come back. We're thinking of jumping on the Amtrak to Arizona to visit some family there while waiting. Once there we can borrow a car. Friends let us borrow their car the other night to get some groceries with (I was getting tired of Dominoes pizza for every meal). We're good.

You have my utmost respect for serving in what has become a danger zone. In 1970s El Paso, we'd quick-trip over the free bridge to Juárez for 50 gal of diesel at 7¢/gal, a couple six-packs of Negra Modelo (for $1.25/ea), and sandwiches with a side of jícama from a street vendor at the nearby park.

When the cartel wars came, several people were slaughtered at that park, a formerly peaceful place where old men gathered daily to swap stories. By that time, our diesels were gone (and so was I). Most of that violence has subsided now, but I'll likely never re-enter Mexico, even for cheap diesel. Stay safe!

 

[John in OkieLand]

I too, back in the '70s used to go visit in Mexico.

Not anymore

 

[Maryland dieselnick]

No need, less violence here, we have better diesel and better weed.
I hope Bryan fixes it right for you and also gives you the better torque converter he said he know uses.