If your car breaks down on the way and you cannot change the gear anymore, you ask someone or anyone who drives. Some will not know what actually the problem is. Somone who encountered similar mechanical failure in his past driving time, will say"GEAR FASAI" which is the word used by Indian mechanics. It is nothing but a problem with your gear getting locked in one gear and you cannot shift it to any other desired gear. It happens when the gear lever gets banged and the gear shaft is unstraightened.
It happened recently with my car while I was driving to Pemagatshel. I just crossed Dewathang. Samdrupjongkhar-Dewathang road is as horrible as it could be. No road in the world, not even in hell would there be such road to ply. If such road existed in hell, I think there should be another name for hell which should imply the most horrible meaning than the term hell imply today. The widening work in 2006 has made it so and it would take some years to befit to be called a road plyable and peace road.
Crossing Dewathang would bring you to a road not worser than Samdrupjongkhar-Dewathang road. The widening team is at this stage and this place making the road implyable. There are boulders, mud and many more to stagnant any car. For my car, it was worse. The wheels of my car is not taller than the deep nitch in the mud made by the wheels of the trucks traveling before me. So I was driving careful and suddenly, my gear made a huge croaking sound. By the time, I tried to minize the gear, it had already got locked and it was in the 3rd gear. I tried to pull hard but to vain.
Some minutes later, some racing taxis came but their way blocked by my car. Their race ended when they had to pull my car out of their way. I asked was the problem with my car. One of them said it was gear fasai- the word that I heard for the first time and will never forget. He then advised me to return as I would never make uphills. They assured their helping hand wherever my car wont climb. I drove back but in the same gear (3) and luckily my car could manage to climb uphill at 4 Kilo checkpoint area. I directly drove back and put my car in Barma Workshop. The next day, the mechanics operated my car like doctors and with grunts and whistle of sadness. I just watched what they do. After 6 hours of constant operation, he said it is ready. But ready does not mean for the owner. The head mechanic so called GURUJI drive it until Daranga and to 4 Kilo for test. After that he approves it and finally it was ready. The crooked gear shaft was replaced but the old one was not as crooked as I thought but the negligible bent can divert your days and your luck. That was gear fasai.
It happened recently with my car while I was driving to Pemagatshel. I just crossed Dewathang. Samdrupjongkhar-Dewathang road is as horrible as it could be. No road in the world, not even in hell would there be such road to ply. If such road existed in hell, I think there should be another name for hell which should imply the most horrible meaning than the term hell imply today. The widening work in 2006 has made it so and it would take some years to befit to be called a road plyable and peace road.
Crossing Dewathang would bring you to a road not worser than Samdrupjongkhar-Dewathang road. The widening team is at this stage and this place making the road implyable. There are boulders, mud and many more to stagnant any car. For my car, it was worse. The wheels of my car is not taller than the deep nitch in the mud made by the wheels of the trucks traveling before me. So I was driving careful and suddenly, my gear made a huge croaking sound. By the time, I tried to minize the gear, it had already got locked and it was in the 3rd gear. I tried to pull hard but to vain.
