It occurs to me that I left ya’ll hanging on the saga of the broken transmission. We didn’t have to hook the greyhounds to a sleigh after all. The wonderful news is – it wasn’t broken at all. So all that fretting and wailing was for naught, but I will happily eat my overreaction and tell you the issue was (what else for an electrical contractor’s truck) electrical.
Seems some wiring got up next to something hot under there and shorted out the connection to whatever the gizmo is that makes the truck go forward. Why reverse still worked is a mystery to me. What I do know is that instead of the anticipated $2000 brand new transmission and labor cost we owed only $320 for the repair, and $153 for the tow.
Interesting note, I calculated the tow truck charge out to a per hour basis. That guy makes $340/hr with that truck. Wonder if I can trade my Accord in on a tow truck. I’m clearly in the wrong business.
Anyway … let there be no doubt about it - we got our Christmas miracle.
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