nerves like nylon, nerves like steel

I drained the gearbox oil today. The magnetic post on the drain
plug was a modern-art sculpture of metal bits and pieces. What bothered
me the most were the bits I could recognize as circular parts of
bushings and spacers. It’s been in the back of my mind that I’d
end up rebuilding or replacing the gearbox, but I didn’t plan on it
this soon. Reverse is impossible to find. First and second are getting
more difficult to shift into also.