Re: [T3] this didn't just happen (help, please)

[Greg Merritt <gregm@vwtype3.org>]

<x-flowed>At 11:03 PM -0600 11/16/03, Jim Adney wrote:
> I think you're justified to be scared. It may not be in the bell housing, but
> you really need to find it. One way or another. You probably think you've
> already checked everywhere else, but you really probably haven't. 
> There's a lot


	Oh man, I've looked from above the very front of the nose 
cone, to the under-the-pushrod tins, heater boxes, cvs, around the 
starter, my clothes, the little shelf-ish areas just above the ATF 
pan, the end of my ratchet, the pavement, under the engine hatch (in 
case it skipped over the breast plate tin)... and all of these places 
like 3 times.  Lots of time just lying longitudinally under the car, 
giving the tranny a big "hug" with an arm around each side, 
searching, searching...

	At some point this afternoon I decided that I just needed to 
walk away from it for a bit... went to work on the Beetle's vent 
shades and fanfare horns.  I will probably give it another 20 minutes 
of looking tomorrow or the next day.  I may take the digicam and take 
a zillion shots of the Square's tranny region from crazy angles.

	My biggest fear would be to slide the engine back, hear it 
fall to the ground, and not see where it fell from...!!!!!

	Thanks for the reply, Jim.

-Greg

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