So. We came to the mechanic early in the morning and got to sleep in the car for about an hour as the mechanic arrived just as the sun was rising. The gearbox-man came about the same time and they had a short discussion before the gearbox-man left. He came back. It was quiet apparent that the buzz about automatic gearboxes was dead - automatic was totally out of fashion and the new black was the manual gearbox. The gearbox-guy also brought all the hottest bling-bling on the market - a gear-change-lever and a nice clutch pedal. With all this stuff we would rule the streets.
The mechanic summed it up for us. Showing how we could shift into first, second, third, forth AND fifth! gear. This is really two more gears than we expected - as we where expecting an automatic - and one more then we could hope for with a manual. All great! If you count reverse as a gear we have a gear for everyday for the rest of the rally. We may be backing over the finishing line in Bamako.
Today there are even more people involved in the whole gear-change process - the dysfunctional gearbox was out by the time where they normally started real work on the car. There are people running back and forth with various axles - we need a longer axle for the manual gear box. It is all looking promising at this point.
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