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My mistake. I can get all the rubber parts locally. What I need is the metal

cradle that holds the back of the tranny up.

Here you go.  $26 bucks from Bug City  -  P/N 113301255A

https://www.bugcity.com/shop/s...07f0516A99qpFED8448A

They've got everything else you might need, too.

Thanks, 

All I have to do now is get my helper to do all the work, while I

stand there and try not to move my arm. I'm going to duct tape 

it to my side, I can't seem to keep it unemployed.

What'd ya have done?  I had a rotator cuff re-bushed a few years back and was amazed at how I was unable to do much of anything, post surgery - couldn't even get dressed!  Had this awesome sling/cushion/support device all velcrod together with a big cushion under my elbow.  It came with a red rubber ball that I could stick to a velcro pad and not lose it, and I could use that to maintain forearm strength.  Our boy Jack Russell would sneak up on me, snatch the red ball and run off with it to play "keep away". 

You got it. I finally took the red ball and gave it to my neighbors dog.

I was afraid he would think I wanted to play, and get stuck in the Velcro.

What a contraption. I feel like one of those things, I think they are called

Converters?. They go from human into a heavy duty mechanical device.

I've had mine on for a month, and haven't slept more than 4 hours a night.

Did you have the ice pad addition? What a great accessory that is.

I found all the tranny mount stuff I need. The unbelievable part of this whole

story is that, after working on that Speedster for 3 years, I might have to put

in one of those automatic stick shift transmissions. I guess if my arm doesn't 

bounce back, I can switch it to right hand drive. Does anyone have one of 

those?

ashcreek posted:

I found all the tranny mount stuff I need. The unbelievable part of this whole

story is that, after working on that Speedster for 3 years, I might have to put

in one of those automatic stick shift transmissions. I guess if my arm doesn't 

bounce back, I can switch it to right hand drive. Does anyone have one of 

those?

Must resist commenting ....

Yeah, I had a "kool shirt" attachment.  Came with a little cooler that you filled with ice and water, then plugged a dual-tube hose assembly into the cooler cover and the other end of the tubes went into a shirt-like shoulder cover which had a bunch of small tubes running around it.  Turn it on and in seconds the entire shoulder was cold and pain-free for a while (til it ran out of ice).   My wife later used it after foot surgery - just had to get a "kool boot" for her foot.

You had the "S" model. Mine was just the normal. With mine it was fed by 

gravity. I had to sit below it so that gravity would draw the water down into

the very comfortable and stylish apparatus. It was quite a site, here I am in

agony, sitting on the floor, with this beer cooler hooked to me with tubes.

Thank God for pain killers. 

I think it's so great how we make such good friends sharing wonderful 

experiences like this.

Actually, the cooler was nothing more than a Coleman portable cooler with a special cover which held the pump and stuff.  What was really cool, was that the pump ran on +12 Volts with a little power brick.  As luck would have it, you could fit a few Guinness cans in there for sustenance while recuperating.

We no longer needed ours after a while, so I gifted it to a semi-pro race car driver (Bruce LeDoux, who also founded the Spyder Club web site) who's now using it in his Lotus and Ferrari race cars for his Cool Shirt.  That 12Volt pump was pretty handy!

Good story, especially the part about keeping a couple of cold ones in there.

You should drop that idea in their " Suggestion Box"

I'm working on a Lotus Elan right now. As a matter of fact, this is 

the car I hurt myself on. The headlight system is a vacuum operated

disaster, that had been jury rigged together. I had the light out, and 

was reaching through the opening, trying to move this incredibly 

strong spring. Instead of giving up, I fought and fought , and ended up

having this wonderful operation, and the pleasure of needing to

wear this wonderful, Velcro covered, arm sling. Mine didn't have

the beer cooler accessory option, I had to eject myself out of that adjustable 

chair, and walk to the Fridge.

All sympathy, man. I have done this, though not to the degree you have, several times in the past half decade. 

Funny thing: when I was younger I could hammer or pull or push all day and night on stuff that was too tough or big or stuck for me to move. Win or lose I'd be sore the next day and that was it.

I don't feel any different now than I did then...except after doing this kind of activity!

This hurts-for-a-month or need-an-operation or never-be-the-same-again stuff is for the freekin' birds! 

Fortunately, I have two good arms, and these days, I am able to use one of them to write cheques for work I need done...

I'm beyond lying on the garage floor struggling with something, or being in the engine bay half upside down, etc.  My idea of a 'hobby' has changed over the years - if I can't pay for it, I don't do it. 

 

 

There you guys go again talking about mounting your trannies ;-)

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"I'm beyond lying on the garage floor struggling with something, or being in the engine bay half upside down, etc."

THAT is how I finally screwed up my shoulder.  I had been working on a friend's Hudson a couple of weeks before and contorted myself too much, trying to get a water pump out, when something stretched.  Then two weeks later, I had Pearl up on jack stands and was really stretching while on my back on a creeper to pull a wrench at arm's length at a weird angle, when something went "POP!" and that's all she wrote.  

The story started 27 years before when I was head-on'd by a pickup while I was on my bicycle - All I did later was aggravate an injury waiting to happen.  The good news is, now that the repair has made that shoulder is better than the other side, but now I have arthritis in my upper spinal column.  Being Old is catching up with me.

That's Automotive Yoga.  You contort yourself into the most uncomfortable position possible and stay there for as long as you can.  The next day you wake up with pain in weird places and ask yourself "what the hell did I do now?" 

As soon as the pain leaves you repeat the process.

That's what I was doing yesterday when the AUX input cable fell out of the back of my radio.  Lying under the dash and looking up while contorting yourself around to get a connector back in to a blind hole AND trying to ignore a sinus infection is bordering on stupidity.  Just shows what you'll do when you've been cooped up for weeks and REALLY BORED!

I went down to shop just to check up on the Lotus. It's all painted, and

installing the top is the last big thing. I get down there, and they can't 

get the top to line up. I was wondering why there was so much silicone

between the top of the glass, and the windshield frame. Nothing lined

up, and with my arm, I couldn't look under the dash to adj. the metal

rod that pulls the windshield frame tight around the glass, plus holds

the mirror. When we originally got the car and took the windshield out,

I thought all the silicone and the big gap were do to the middle post

being loose. The more I thought about it, the more it didn't make sense.

The you know that feeling you get when, after you paint a car, and feel 

like you're going to start all over again? Out of desperation, I called the

owner, and he announced the car used to be a coupe! Whoever did the 

work, should be tortured. My bad arm was sending some wild sensations

up to my brain. I called my friend and came home. I'm lost in space.

What I was thinking as I read through all our responses, back and forth,

was that we sound like some old timers who should be driving K cars.

K-cars suck...

Seriously, so sorry for your predicament.  That must really be deflating, to find out something such as that and not to be able to do much about it.  I hope somehow it can be rectified.

 

It would help if I had both of my arms. There's nothing worse than

fixing someone else's bogus job.

I,m sure, dinner, a glass of wine, a pain killer and a good nights sleep, 

would help. I'll keep you posted.

The real problem is, the windshield frame originally went from the cowl

to the roof, forming something with some strength. When you cut the

top off, there's nothing holding it together. If it was metal, I could work

with it. Measuring, cutting, welding, grinding, and a skimcoat of bondo.

Wolfgang, did you get my message. 

My iPad acted up, I had to take it to the 'Genius's' 

They had to clear it, it affected my emails.

I had my 3rd PT session. They bent my arm back to 

the point of torture. I thought I heard one of them 

laughing. I think the sessions get worked and worse.

Gaining "range of motion" in your shoulder is the Holy Grail of getting through this.

Yes, it hurts like a sonofagun, but it has to be done.  I can take a LOT of pain and put my mind elsewhere, but I was really surprised at the level during stretching that shoulder.  Icing it afterwards helped a lot.  Took about a month to get through it.  The PT people are mechanics - I doubt that they have any emotional involvement, but they know what needs to be done to regain range of motion on a day-to-day basis and that's what they push for.

Hang in there.