I was really hard on the driveline. I broke 3 transmissions in about 70k miles. Fortunately, they were cheap and fairly plentiful in the junk yard ... and light enough to install in the backyard without a trans Jack. I used to break the shifter out of the shifter cup and bash my knuckles on the dash on a hard 2nd-3rd shift, I broke the metal shaft and had to use vice grips as the shifter handle for a while. LOTS of stories in that car. Lost a carb filter housing screw down the carb one time, it got stuck in the intake valve. We pulled the head, removed the screw from the valve, threw it all back together with the old gasket and it still ran great! The Pinto/Bobcat got a bad rap but they sold a lot of them. Rust eventually killed mine.
I was really hard on the driveline. I broke 3 transmissions in about 70k miles. Fortunately, they were cheap and fairly plentiful in the junk yard ... and light enough to install in the backyard without a trans Jack. I used to break the shifter out of the shifter cup and bash my knuckles on the dash on a hard 2nd-3rd shift, I broke the metal shaft and had to use vice grips as the shifter handle for a while. LOTS of stories in that car. Lost a carb filter housing screw down the carb one time, it got stuck in the intake valve. We pulled the head, removed the screw from the valve, threw it all back together with the old gasket and it still ran great! The Pinto/Bobcat got a bad rap but they sold a lot of them. Rust eventually killed mine.
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