Originally Posted by j-galap

It's been listed for a while - and it's also on Vancouver Island which is a ferry ride away for most people, so it's local but a little bit of a drag to get to. Given that it's been listed a while I could make a dangerously low offer and see if it's met with scorn or acceptance..!

I'm not looking for anything more than a workhorse for the next nine months really, although would be nice to sort out the problems.

Is it likely that the transmission issue is in fact a vacuum leak or could it be more sinister than that? If it is vacuum, what's the job to fix that like? I can do a lot of jobs myself, although I'm not exactly a professional mechanic!