toilets - the only place to change the gaskets of a Ford C4 transmission during a severe thunderstorm
While on holiday in the beautiful Southern Victorian town of Torquay (near Bell's Beach), my brother's car that we were travelling in developed a bad leak in it's automatic gearbox. As the caravan park proprietors weren't overly keen on the guests rebuilding vehichles next to their caravans on the grass, we thought the gaskets could be replaced at the local garage. Unfortunately, this was Sunday, so it was closed but we had to have it fixed because we were leaving the next day. Waiting until midnight, the transmission was removed from the car and carried into the toilet block. When placed on the toilet bowl, if you were kneeling, it was easy to remove the pan and replace the gasket and the old transmission fluid drained into the bowl! Perfect, almost like that's what toilets had been designed for.
I would have loved to have seen the cleaners face the next day - transmission fluid is red and the old gasket had disintergated into dark red fibous lumps.
(peewee13, Sun 4 Sep 2005, 2:03, Reply)