![]() The most important thing is we trusted God and we prayed. We were thankful we had another vehicle that was in good working condition. I remembered seeing some wrecked Dodge trucks in a junk yard in Bardai, another 2 days of driving away. | We hoped we could find a transmission and clutch disk that would fit. Mark volunteered that he and his two oldest children, Jessica and David, would stay with the crippled Dodge while I took the ladies and remaining six children on to Bardai. We divided the food and water and firewood deciding that those who stayed could survive for a maximum of two weeks. After arriving in Bardai I went to look for a clutch and transmission. I found only one. By the time I got back to Mark, Jessica and David they had been there days. That afternoon we began the repair work but a sandstorm kicked up, postponing the job until the next morning. Soon we came to the grim realization that the spare parts from Bardai did not fit our Dodge. We decided to try and modify the clutch disk and transmission to make it fit. We cut and filed, changed parts from one transmission to the other, tried to mount it, cut and filed some more until almost midnight. In the mean-time a Chadian military truck came along with some mechanical problems. They stopped right next to us and spent the night repairing their truck and coming over several times to borrow our tools. The next morning we got up at 5:30 and continued our modification work. ![]() |