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Happy Tranny Story (Long)
Those of you who've hung around with me these past couple of years have known my transmission adventures. Well it looks like I've finally gotten a break on the "Mysterious Legacy Tranny."
Steve Wasion (wasions) was standing by his SVX this morning when a young man walked up and said something like, "wow, I drove one of those around the parking lot at my work one day after we put a transmission in it." Steve said, "was it white?" The guy said, "yeah." Steve said, "was it a Legacy tranny?" The guy (I think, reluctantly) said, "yeah." Steve said, "where are you gonna be?" To shorten the story (just a little bit), after I arrived this morning at Autofest, Steve told me he'd like to introduce me to the fellow who had put the Legacy tranny in my car. I think the look on my face may have frightened Steve, because he said, "well, it wasn't HIM, but he knows who did." So, I went to talk to the young gentleman (nice guy -- he and his wife were displaying their 260 Z), and after talking a bit found that the tranny came from a 92 or 93 Legacy wagon, but, that's not the best part. He told me if I called a particular person at the place where he worked, he could tell me EXACTLY which car it came out of. Not only that, I found that the guy who KNOWS, is a friend of the son of one of my co-workers (who also worked with us for a while), and, the fellow I was speaking with was also a freind of his -- ain't that wild. So, now, I'll be able to put it on e-bay and be able to sell the sucker after all this time --- WHOOPEE! So, Autofest wasn't just a good time with some great SVXers, it (hopefully) will net me a little "recovery" money from my tranny woes. I'm a happy (but tired) camper!
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Randy Johnson 3rd Registered Member 02-21-2001 First Member to Reach 10,000 Posts First to arrive at the very first Reading Meet Subaru Ambassador 1992 SVX PPG Pace Car Replica 110+k 1993 White Impreza L 240+K miles 2001 Legacy Outback Limited Sedan 250+K miles 2013 Deep Indigo Pearl Legacy 3.6R 49+K miles "Reading is my favorite Holiday" Mike Davis -- at Reading VI |
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As always, Aredub, happy to be of service.
Steve
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PS: Ready for another round of Souvla?
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Randy Johnson 3rd Registered Member 02-21-2001 First Member to Reach 10,000 Posts First to arrive at the very first Reading Meet Subaru Ambassador 1992 SVX PPG Pace Car Replica 110+k 1993 White Impreza L 240+K miles 2001 Legacy Outback Limited Sedan 250+K miles 2013 Deep Indigo Pearl Legacy 3.6R 49+K miles "Reading is my favorite Holiday" Mike Davis -- at Reading VI |
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I think the concept of "six degrees of separation" somehow applies here.
Ron
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Re: Happy Tranny Story (Long)
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Did you ask him why they put the legacy tranny in the SVX -- and if they test the car for AWD operation? I'd love to see the answer to that. But finally your legacy tranny is going! Congrets. Lwin
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Re: Re: Happy Tranny Story (Long)
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Yippee! Just found out that my orphan tranny had a momma: 1991 Legacy, Non-turbo, 4:11 ratio! Now, anybody wanna buy a tranny from a '91 Legacy, non-turbo with a 4:11 ratio?
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How much do you want for it?
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Thanks.
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Randy,
Great news. Too bad it took you this long to find out. Especially since the person or persons were right under your nose the whole time. Wayne |
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Randy Johnson 3rd Registered Member 02-21-2001 First Member to Reach 10,000 Posts First to arrive at the very first Reading Meet Subaru Ambassador 1992 SVX PPG Pace Car Replica 110+k 1993 White Impreza L 240+K miles 2001 Legacy Outback Limited Sedan 250+K miles 2013 Deep Indigo Pearl Legacy 3.6R 49+K miles "Reading is my favorite Holiday" Mike Davis -- at Reading VI |
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Happy tranny story [short]
Randy
Congrats. You sell the box, buy a bottle of that nice Blanton's out of the proceeds, you deserve it. Tonight, I have driven my SVX with all 4 forward gears working! Yippeeeeeeeee!!!!! I was going to be more effusive, but I am not 20 anymore. Pat, my Master Tech [hope he sees this, he hasn't billed me yet!] could not fit the '96 box to my '91 engine because of a technicality. So he stripped out the '91 box and put the internals of the good '96 box[OK, OK, tranny] into my original housing, and wired the necessaries into my loom. Result: everything works. My power switch [Honourable Japanese spec] works, manual works, everything works. I could have kissed him. But, he also is a biker, they [we] are liable to misinterpret these things. I will do a more comprehensive outline of what was involved in another post, put it out on Yahoo too. I am sure there are a lot of people who could save themselves maybe $2000 if they can buy a good tranny off a wreck. Bottom line, it works. As the dyslexic said, there is a Dog. Joe
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Joe, that really is the dog's bollocks! I know you've been waiting for this for donkey's years. Enjoy the fact that your box is giving you the full monty. Again, that's the mutt's nuts. Cheerio!
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Randy Johnson 3rd Registered Member 02-21-2001 First Member to Reach 10,000 Posts First to arrive at the very first Reading Meet Subaru Ambassador 1992 SVX PPG Pace Car Replica 110+k 1993 White Impreza L 240+K miles 2001 Legacy Outback Limited Sedan 250+K miles 2013 Deep Indigo Pearl Legacy 3.6R 49+K miles "Reading is my favorite Holiday" Mike Davis -- at Reading VI |
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