Hello from Los Angeles, CA

[Nulla]

Hi Nulla, Jax & Amado, been busy lately and seem to have missed your intro, welcome to the forum!

If your European adventure brings you close or through Romania (recommended) then we'd love the chance for you to visit us at a place called Comarnic about 110 km north-west of Bucharest. Were close to the Carpathian mountains and if you could spare us a weekend we'd be honoured to show you a small sample of the scenery in 'our' area.

BTW, what's a Sinag... ? It's welcome too, whatever it is

Sinag is our small dog she ate 2 bears in Alaska and got sick . She is ok with cats and dogs. Thanks for the invite we will let you know if we end up in Romania. It is possible especially with your invite. Thank you so much. We are currently visiting national parks in Utah, internet is not good everywhere. BTW this is a picture of the scooter Sinag rode in Vietnam from the south to the China border. Thx

 

[Higgy]

There ya go Clive.. Safe as houses with that bear eating dog....Id still keep an eye on them cats tho

 

[clivehorridge]

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Sinag is our small dog she ate 2 bears in Alaska and got sick . She is ok with cats and dogs. Thanks for the invite we will let you know if we end up in Romania. It is possible especially with your invite. Thank you so much. We are currently visiting national parks in Utah, internet is not good everywhere. BTW this is a picture of the scooter Sinag rode in Vietnam from the south to the China border. Thx

Well, with adventures like your, that’s one lucky dog!

And she’s as welcome as you guys are, just give us a few days notice... I’ll send you a private “conversation” with my contact details (you should see a number against your “inbox” top right hand corner next to “Alerts” when you receive it...).

 

[Rodger]

Hi Nulla,

I have had a word with both mechanics and both reacted in an identical manner (they are both English, living and working in Spain).
To summarise: If it is just a gasket then it would not be a problem but if it is, for instance, the seals between the gearbox and transfer box then just replacing the seals would not solve the problem and it would still leak oil as the shafts wear so would need low-heat welding and then machining to the correct size.
The problem for them is not the job although both would need to use a machining shop and there lies the problem...
Shops that can undertake this sort of exacting welding and machining do exist in Spain but the Mediterranean mentality invariably means that the shop would say '4 days' which could easily become 4 weeks and that could just as likely become 4 months. During that time Nulla has no transmission and you are stuck.
Both guys recommend that you speak with the guys in the Netherlands, who are specialist in 60/61 series trucks, but the northern European attitude to delivery dates and time that a job like this will take is far more accurate than the Mediterranean view, even though it will be colder up there.
Having read some of your i8mud report and seeing that you are based in LA would it not be better to talk with SOR who are based in LA to see if they know a shop locally who could undertake the work before you leave for Europe?
Sorry to disappoint but far better that we are honest about the frustrating and prevailing attitudes that exist in Spain rather than have you stranded, potentially, for months. We chose to live here so have to live with such problems but you would be a visitor and none of us would want you to suffer those same frustrations. We'd rather show you the good side of Spain and some of the trails, etc, than feel guilty about not having explained the way things can be, and are, here.

Regards,

Rodger

 

[Nulla]

Hi Nulla,

I have had a word with both mechanics and both reacted in an identical manner (they are both English, living and working in Spain).
To summarise: If it is just a gasket then it would not be a problem but if it is, for instance, the seals between the gearbox and transfer box then just replacing the seals would not solve the problem and it would still leak oil as the shafts wear so would need low-heat welding and then machining to the correct size.
The problem for them is not the job although both would need to use a machining shop and there lies the problem...
Shops that can undertake this sort of exacting welding and machining do exist in Spain but the Mediterranean mentality invariably means that the shop would say '4 days' which could easily become 4 weeks and that could just as likely become 4 months. During that time Nulla has no transmission and you are stuck.
Both guys recommend that you speak with the guys in the Netherlands, who are specialist in 60/61 series trucks, but the northern European attitude to delivery dates and time that a job like this will take is far more accurate than the Mediterranean view, even though it will be colder up there.
Having read some of your i8mud report and seeing that you are based in LA would it not be better to talk with SOR who are based in LA to see if they know a shop locally who could undertake the work before you leave for Europe?
Sorry to disappoint but far better that we are honest about the frustrating and prevailing attitudes that exist in Spain rather than have you stranded, potentially, for months. We chose to live here so have to live with such problems but you would be a visitor and none of us would want you to suffer those same frustrations. We'd rather show you the good side of Spain and some of the trails, etc, than feel guilty about not having explained the way things can be, and are, here.

Regards,

Rodger

Thank you so much. Yes I am looking at both options, getting done here or there. Thank you.