GOD "FIXED" MY TRUCK

NO.

This is not the truck God "fixed" for me.

This is only a picture from my files of a pickup.

Back about 1980 I bought the first pickup I ever had

from a fellow mechanic.  It was one of those ugly

1961 chev. pickups.  It seems that chev. designed it

ugly on purpose.  Like some of today's cars.  They

did well.  It was ugly.  And if there are any left on

a scrap heap some where - they are still ugly.

I had borrowed the pickup from my friend a number

of times.  So it did not come with any hidden faults.

It's chief fault was that it would pop out of high 

gear once in a while.   This was one of those old

6 cylinder three speed manual transmissions.

But that was not supposed to be a problem.  I was

a mechanic, and overhauling manual transmissions 

was one of my jobs.

As you can guess, the problem did not get any better.

Over time it got to popping out of high gear real bad.

I counted one time.  In driving to work, that's, 12 miles,

it popped out of high gear 16 times.

I know, the logical thing to have done would be simply

buy a rebuilt transmission and slip in on a Saturday.

But at that time circumstances were such it could not

be afforded. 

The other option of course was to fix it myself.  The

problem there was down time.  Back then we could

get parts for automatic transmissions in a day or two.

But every time we had a car down with a manual 

transmission, it took a week or two to get parts.

This truck was my only transportation and I had

tried every adjustment I could think of.

One day returning home from work it popped out

of gear while going down a straight section of road.

I put it back in gear.  Let out the clutch and it popped

right back out again.

In frustration and desperation I cried out loud enough

He could hear me, "Lord, I don't know how much longer

I can put up with this."

The next morning on way to work the young fellow

riding into town with me ask, "Did you fix the

transmission?"  No.  Then he pointed out that it had

not popped out of gear at all.

I started watching it then.  It must have been about 

one and a half years before it ever popped out of high

gear again.

Talk about a cheap fix.  God is a whole lot better

mechanic than I am.

Ultimately I gave the old truck to the young man

that was riding with me that morning.

PRAISE GOD FOR ANSWERED PRAYER.