[stomachmonkey]

Glad the wife is OK.

Maybe this belongs in the biggest screw up at work thread.

Had a Jeep as my winter driver. At the movies one snowy night with the Ms before she was the Ms.

Get in to head home and the transmission takes a dump.

Get it hauled to Moms house to sit while I decide what to do.

Find a guy parting out a V8 Qudratrac so have him drop it off intending to swap out the drivetrain. The rest of it he has sold to someone else.

Well mine was an inline 6 so of course nothing lined up on the frames. While looking at my frame I find a ton of rust in the back and call the guy back, make a deal to keep everything but the body, his is trashed, mine is good so was going to simply swap tops.

Thus begins the "while you are in there" slippery slope saga.

Sandblast the frame and recoat it, bent and ran all new brake / fuel lines, did a top end refresh on the motor, new heads, hotter cam, intake, carb. Added headers and glasspacks, thing was hella loud but I was in my 20's so it was cool.

One day my buddy Tim comes by and he's checking things out, I've got the body back on at this point and he notices the pinch clamp in the top of my tool chest. Say's "you should put that on before you forget" Replied "I know, I'm not an idiot."

Get the thing drivable and fire it up for a quick romp around the block and son of a ***** it won't shift out of 1st.

Mom was moving to Fl and was going to put the house up for sale so I needed to get my mess out of her driveway.

Tim, (he's got his own shop) comes by and flatbeds it to his place. Takes a look at the transmission and thinks it just the governor so drops it by the tranny shop he uses down the street.

Shop owner calls me a couple of days later, Jeep is fine, was the governor, simple cheap fix.

Then he says, "listen, I don't know what ******* worked on this thing last but it nearly killed me. I took it for a test drive and it shifted through all the gears so I went to do a u turn to take it back to the shop but it just kept going. Ended up on someones lawn and managed to stop it just before going through their fence. The pinch clamp for the steering knuckle is missing."

I said thanks for the heads up and I'll make sure to pick one up before I come get it, as I'm visualizing it sitting in the top of my tool chest.