The MaverickAuthor: jawapro
Date: Tue 27/08/2013 11:02 PM
After a somewhat difficult pregnancy - Chris’s Maverick gave birth to a 5-speed gearbox. Chris is very proud...
In less poetic (and disturbing) terms - we dropped the gearbox out of the Maverick today.
A few weeks back I towed Chris home after his clutch decided it didn’t want to play anymore. That was fine - we parked the Maverick on the side of the road. The next day I came back and towed it to a carwash so Chris could clean it before he started work on it.
The Maverick sat on the side of the road all week waiting for Chris to get around to doing something about it.
Eventually the Maverick got sick of waiting - and decided to run away.
So run away it did.
And of course, a Nissan’s worst enemy is a Toyota - so when the Maverick spied a Toyota HiLux - it decided to show it what-for!
So after a brief scuffle, the Maverick proved victorious and the HiLux was defeated.
And Chris came tearing down the road on foot to see what had happened.
Or at least that’s how I imagined things.
The facts of the story is that the Maverick jumped its chocks (no clutch so no engine brake and a faulty handbrake) and trundled down the road and walloped a parked HiLux. The Maverick came off far better than the HiLux - which thankfully was insured. The Maverick wasn’t - but Chris has sorted that out now. It’s not too nasty.
It’s a good thing the HiLux was there - otherwise the Maverick might have ended up in someone’s house - which would have been far worse.
Chris managed to get the Maverick into the shed - and now that the gearbox is out, repairs can begin in earnest.
And the Maverick will have third-party before it leaves the shed...
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