SO! After 2.5 days of driving, and we are literally 2 hours from home, U-haul decides to take a crap when we stop to eat lunch.
I get out of the cab. Smoke coming from underneath my side, fluid leaking profusely from the same area, Tell my dad that I think the transmission is leaking and he needs to take a look. YEP. I was right.
2 hours later, the wrecker shows up, we ended up having to take the e30 off the trailer and leave the truck behind (it will be towed to houston, tranny fixed WITH my stuff still in it.)
But before we could drive the e30 home, I had to find a car wash and get all the tranny fluid AND diesel (from a truck on the highway earlier that was spewing it from his side) off my car. Poor thing looked like she had been through an oil slick.
ALL of this AFTER we spent 2 hours on I-20 waiting for an over sized lowboy that had gotten himself high centered on the freeway, towed off. He had gotten stuck after he decided that he was too big to go through the upcoming construction and GENIUSLY decided to turn around on the "authorized vehicles only" road across the median.
That was the fun part of the trip...sitting on the tarmac of a major interstate, listening to the truckers on my portable CB (that came with the e30) make fun of this goof ball!
ANYWAY, we got into houston tonight. Hopefully we can get the truck tomorrow and get my stuff off. We shall see.
At least we are safely here. Thanks to all who kept me entertained along the way!!
I get out of the cab. Smoke coming from underneath my side, fluid leaking profusely from the same area, Tell my dad that I think the transmission is leaking and he needs to take a look. YEP. I was right.
2 hours later, the wrecker shows up, we ended up having to take the e30 off the trailer and leave the truck behind (it will be towed to houston, tranny fixed WITH my stuff still in it.)
But before we could drive the e30 home, I had to find a car wash and get all the tranny fluid AND diesel (from a truck on the highway earlier that was spewing it from his side) off my car. Poor thing looked like she had been through an oil slick.
ALL of this AFTER we spent 2 hours on I-20 waiting for an over sized lowboy that had gotten himself high centered on the freeway, towed off. He had gotten stuck after he decided that he was too big to go through the upcoming construction and GENIUSLY decided to turn around on the "authorized vehicles only" road across the median.
That was the fun part of the trip...sitting on the tarmac of a major interstate, listening to the truckers on my portable CB (that came with the e30) make fun of this goof ball!
ANYWAY, we got into houston tonight. Hopefully we can get the truck tomorrow and get my stuff off. We shall see.
At least we are safely here. Thanks to all who kept me entertained along the way!!
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