Can you learn things from your Kids ?

Recently an early Patrol slid backwards and rolled on a really badly rutted steep track late one week night.

The kids took the call dragging themselves out of bed and arrived on the scene around midnight.

A high level of capability was required and they took a 4800 GU Patrol which had just been fitted with 37 inch Maxxis and a prototype dual plate clutch.

The rescue was really hardcore and went on for hours involving 3 cars belaying the stricken vehicle down the slope inch by inch.

The 4800 GU took the main load constantly re-positioning itself and it was to much for the on/off prototype clutch which shredded its ceramic linings on the last section of the recovery.

The rolled car was however recovered and the 4800 was jammed into 3rd and limped back home about 4am.

So what to do ? - I'm not a mechanic and the manual box in a GU is a really heavy truck grade monster and relacing a clutch in it can't be done with home tools.

This is where I learnt something from the kids , I didn't have time to tell them it couldn't be done and before I knew it they borrowed an engine crane and some mates and shoved it thru the drivers doors and lowered the gearbox
to the ground - thanks to the huge tyres there was reasonable working area under the car and a couple of days later it was all over and cost nothing.

They did however leave plenty of oil stains in the driveway just to make sure the parents got involved.