How's the Truck Coming?

Well, there's nothing like a little bit of God-Ordained interference to make you smile... or cry right??

Jake has successfully removed panels, glovebox, steering column, and so on and so forth to get to the old crusty, rusted electrical system. It's happily out of the truck and the excitement begins with replacing it all with a brand-spankin new "painless" electrical system. That has been slow, yet progressive work. Nothing like the verse,

"steady plodding reaps prosperity."

We also received the transmission. That's where the humor, sorrow begins. There's an excellent little auto shop down the road that specializes in restoring old vehicles so they agreed to receive the new transmission so that we could cut shipping costs.. They signed the dotted line on our behalf. We are thankful.

If you look at the above photograph there's a special warning that instructs the customer to open the package and inspect before receiving and signing for any transmission...

So, we weren't there, like I said, and the auto shop signed for it. When Jake picked up the transmission it was wrapped in this special black saran wrap stuff. When he cut it open the broken thing was revealed. He's been in contact with the shipper, Estes, and the supplier, Monster Transmission. They are both in an, behind the scenes to us, argument about it. Monster tells us, it's "our" transmission.. Jake's handled the ordeal very professionally with letters and phone calls and we have been giving the matter over to prayer each morning as well. Pray that the companies would be just and we'd receive the functional transmission we were expecting.