Sorry, Frank, but I am with Lester here. Showing up late on a Saturday
afternoon of a holiday weekend constitutes a major inconvenience. Union
scale at that point would be what? triple or quadruple? Sounds like you got
a heck of a deal.
Sure, the guys could have tried to soldier on, but what happens if the
layshaft jumps? Not much of a chance at finishing the rally that way.
Yes, the sales tax in TN IS highway robbery. I can tell you for a fact that
it is substantially cheaper to have an engine and trans shipped from TN to
IL than to pay sales tax on the rebuild.
I have spent quite a bit of money with Rivergate and have absolutely NO
regrets on any of it. Both Bill and Will (to say nothing of Gayle) are
gentlemen (ok, not Gayle, but you should be able to translate gender for me
and remember that I have not had much sleep for a week now) and very helpful
and accomodating. And $35 is FAR MORE than I would give you for a ribcase
trans that Frank has been into and that has a boogered layshaft and goodness
knows what else wrong with it. We are talking paperweights here ;-)
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