Forum > 2008, 4nd National Eastern Regional Pinto Meet Carlile PA- Archive
Pre-Carlisle hard luck
r4pinto:
It all started back in 2006 when my Pinto died on the way home from Carlisle. She had a plugged carb, and later on the tranny went south. The car sat mostly until late 2007. Fast forward to a week before Carlisle.
I finished the brakes a week earlier, got the interior pretty much back together, and removed the tranny. I noticed the flexplate was missing lots of teeth so I ordered a new one. In the mean time I pulled the bottom end off the engine & got the new parts in, painted the oil pan & bolted it up. This past Tuesday (June 3) I had class so I was unable to finish the tranny install. I picked up the flexplate from the parts store & remembered I forgot to pull the mount off the tranny. I went to remove it today, in the pouring rain when the rubber ripped clear in two. I can't get a replacement mount until Friday unless I want to spend 45 bux more for shipping than the cost of the part. While I want to get her to Carlisle I'm not wanting to pay $50 for a mount that would cost $8 otherwise. The new tranny site outside the car & the old one is beside it, so now I have a car that's not driveable, and the registration I paid for. I'm not a happy camper but will be there, just not with a Pinto. I just have to figure out costs for admission & parking now.
77turbopinto:
If its one of the angled 'hockey-puck' looking ones I have repaired them by putting a 5/16 grade 8 bolt through them and a lock nut.
Bill
r4pinto:
It is. I might try that.
77turbopinto:
It's super easy and it works. Don't even try to center drill it, you can't; offset will do fine.
Bill
r4pinto:
I couldn't fix the mount. It was too far gone. I looked at the mount & it's all cracked up. That, and my Dad wouldn't feel safe in the car. He doesn't want me to drive the car with a mount that was repaired, especially since it's all oil soaked from a bad rear seal & probably also the bad trans pan seal the car had when I got it.
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