From -
http://pyratejohn.blogspot.com/
[the blog of Pyrate/PirateJohn Wesley Gilmer III who resides in a bus
parked in a driveway in Jacksonville, Florida]
Sunday, March 30, 2008
I bought a slightly-used-by-a-soccer-mom Discovery (a/k/a Disco) mainly
to carry on the trailer behind the motorhome.
Well, I had had some odd noises for almost a year that I couldn't quite
track down and had assumed that I had a belt slipping somewhere.
I was driving some small tools over to a job site and just as I was
getting off of a ramp on our future I-295 there was a loud BANG! and a
loss of forward motion.
Diagnosis: The universal joint at the front driveshaft failed, which is
evidently a very common occurrence on this model. But my truck, wanting
to be special, put the flailing end of the drive shaft into the
transmission case and destroyed the tranny.
So long story short, after several delays for parts and $2,600 later,
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