2 turns from a potato cake

[kingcobra]

hi all,
i was just woundering what i should do about this

i bought a 97 explorer,When i first bought it back in may i had a problem with the tranni.After the car yard tryed to snake me on the tranni i decided to run it down to my mechanic to get a roadworthy to buy some leverige on the tranni bussiness..i was wright the bucket of **** had like 10 things on the list to be fixed....so i went back to the caryard and gave him an altermatum to eithier fix every thing on the list or fix all the major things and the tranni we all know what he pick....(tranni n major for all you who didnt guess)it took them just under a month...when i got my car back just the day after i noticed it was ****ing tranni oil....so i lost it for another day...by then it was mid june....

back in october i was doing a early shift in the city on the way in i noticed a vibration.......after that i drove it to my mechanics again to get the front bearings,brakes,tyres and wheel balance done hopeing it would get rid of it...
he phoned me and said hey the bearings are built in to the hub and they cost $1300 to replace,after picking my mouth up off the ground i told him this might be a later thing and went and picked it up.....

i used the explorer twice more 1/to drive my sisters kids home 2/to pick up a tv both times i had my gf and kids in the car....

last night i got on the **** and started searching the net for this problem..

when i got up today 2pm i got under it with a screw driver and started going on the front uni's when i noticed the tailsharft from the gearbox end was hanging off by 2 bolts....now if it had 3 in it i wouldnt be worried but for the fact it had 2 and 1 of them 2 were in by just 2 half turns is the bit that worried me

any one who knows about cars knows when u drop it from the gearbox end it will catipolt the car....after shitting my self i went and got a friend from down the road who gave me 2 high tensile bolts and a bottle of lock tight,as i was putting the 2 bolts in and tightning the other 2 bolt i didnt notice the bolts going in hard they actually went in like flin (easy as)

do you think when they did the work on the tranni they might of forgot to tighten the tailshaft bolts?

and

after all the **** it has given me do you think i should go to vic roads or c/affairs about it??????

oh and does any 1 know a good mechanic in the melbournes west?????

any suggestions or info would be gr8.....

oh by the way the caryard is syd ellis on ballarat rd braybrook.....

thanks alll
shane