at least get 2 more estimates. I'll bet an indy shop will charge a lot less.

Thatis a fair price.

I charge $200 labor to R&R a tranny, another $50 labor to change the clutch.
Then figure another hour to change the rear main seal.

I'm not a shop either, just a backyard mechanic that does alot of Honda
Civic manual transmissions.

I'm "D" tranny guru.

Who told you this?  This is a favorite dealer $$ generator.  Is the leak
bad, i.e. do you have to add fresh oil to keep the level up and how often,
mileage-wise?  If it's very minor a change to one of the extended life
engine oils, like Valvoline MaxLife might help swell the seal enough to
stop the leak.

If you have to have the work done, then it'd be worth considering whether
you want to have anything else done, which might come due anyway, while the
transmision is off, like clutch or torque converter overhaul.

Rgds, George Macdonald

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What's a First Aid Tent?
What's a toga party, in "Animal House" by National Lampoon?
In "Mean Machine" starring Burt Reynolds,
he said "If it worked once, it should work twice. Lets do it!"
With the First Aid Tent, it worked twice,
so it should work three times.
The first two battles of cyberspace each started,
when a first aid tent was set up.
The first was set up on the OUSA Classical Particle conference.
The second was set up on four conferences,
in the pseudo Student Research Faculty.
Needless to say both the conference and
the faculty were subsequently closed down by order.
"It's a tale to gladden the ears and to grow old listening to,"
said the giant in the "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant."
by Stephen Donaldson.

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The Twelve Days of Christmas (see below)

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Purchased for Christmas in 1921

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The Twelve Days of Christmas

December 18th
   May the green holly-tree flourish, striking its roots
deep into our English ground, and having its germinating
qualities carried by the birds of Heaven all over the world!
                                      The Holly Tree
December 19th
   Seasonable tokens are about.... Lavish profusion in the
shops; particularly in the articles of currants, raisins,
spices, candied peel, and miost sugar.
                                       Edwin Drood
December 20th
   Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty
honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and
open heartedness.
                                    The Pickwick Papers  
December 21st
   And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas
brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.... How
many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies, does
Christmas time awaken.
                                     The Pickwick Papers
December 22nd
   It is good to be children sometimes, and never better
than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
                                     A Christmas Carol
December 23rd
   Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed
in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not
roused-, in whose mind some pleasant associations are not
awakened- by the reccurence of Christmas.
                                    Sketches by Boz
December 24th
   I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep
it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present and
the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within
me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
                                     A Christmas Carol
December 25th
   A Christmas family party! We know nothing in nature more
delightful! There seems a magic in the very name of
Christmas.... Would that Christmas lasted the whole year
through!
                                      Sketches by Boz
December 26th
   Let the benignant figure of my childhood stand unchanged!
In every cheerful image and suggestion that the season brings,
may the bright star that rested above the poor roof, be the
star of all the Christian world.
                                     A Christmas Tree
December 27th
   Another Christmas come, another year gone!... More figures
in the lengthening sum of recollection that we work and work
at to our torment, till death idly jumbles all together, and
rules all out.
                                    The Haunted Man
December 28th
   The windows of the house of Memory and the windows of
the house of Mercy are not so easily closed as windows of
glass and wood. They fly open unexpectedly; they rattle in
the night.
                                     Somebody's Luggage
December 29th
   Who seeks to turn him (Time) back, or stay him on his course,
arrests a mighty engine, which will strike the meddler dead,
and be the fiercer and the wilder, ever, for its momentary
check!
                                     The Chimes