Saturday morning i woke up to 40 degrees slowly warming towards the lower 50s. I got up full of endless possibilities of activites. I decided to get my dad out of the house since he has been cooped up from his health problems and is now feeling much better. We head out to some back roads in the little ranger and look for a suitable place to walk in the woods. From my younger days I knew of a place with large rocks with caves cut under them that was supposedly an indian village. We proceeded to walk around there and enjoy the scenery and prespring sun. After leaving we proceed to head to another area and walk around for an hour.
Then we head down to my aunts house to pick up their atv to do some repair work to it. Loaded up a 450 foreman and head towards home. First problem slowly down for a dog that reduely ran out in front of us the lining tears off one of the front brake pads. No big deal as I wanted to do a brake job any way. 5 miles later we cross some train tracks and boom both rear shackles ripp off the frame and shoot the springs into the bed. This is a problem but we are close to home and I baby it home. Now there is lots of work to do.
A quick trip to autozone in my dads jeep and 175 dollars later I have 2 rotors a set of pads 2 shackles and 2 leaf spring hangers in my hand. Get the rear of the truck jacked up and get out the torch to cut out 8 bolts holding on the 2 hangers. Cut first bolt and start on 2nd and boom no more o2. Out comes the grinder onl thing left is a half of a grinding disc. Back to the mall to get grinding disc. 12 grinding disc in hand I proceed to cut out the remaining 7 bolts. Get area cleaned up painted and go to put on the shackles and they are wrong. Back to autozone got correct parts and finish job.
Next start on rotors. Realize that rotors are hubs and I am out of wheel bearing grease, back to mall to get tub of grease. Finish brakes.
Sunday get up to work on the atv. Headgasket is blown. Proceed to break of two head bolts and spend entire day drilling and extracting head bolts.
2 very nice days spent working on stuff. Truck repairs should of taken 2 hours not 6 and atv should of been 1 or 2.
Needless to say next weekend I might just stay in bed.
Then we head down to my aunts house to pick up their atv to do some repair work to it. Loaded up a 450 foreman and head towards home. First problem slowly down for a dog that reduely ran out in front of us the lining tears off one of the front brake pads. No big deal as I wanted to do a brake job any way. 5 miles later we cross some train tracks and boom both rear shackles ripp off the frame and shoot the springs into the bed. This is a problem but we are close to home and I baby it home. Now there is lots of work to do.
A quick trip to autozone in my dads jeep and 175 dollars later I have 2 rotors a set of pads 2 shackles and 2 leaf spring hangers in my hand. Get the rear of the truck jacked up and get out the torch to cut out 8 bolts holding on the 2 hangers. Cut first bolt and start on 2nd and boom no more o2. Out comes the grinder onl thing left is a half of a grinding disc. Back to the mall to get grinding disc. 12 grinding disc in hand I proceed to cut out the remaining 7 bolts. Get area cleaned up painted and go to put on the shackles and they are wrong. Back to autozone got correct parts and finish job.
Next start on rotors. Realize that rotors are hubs and I am out of wheel bearing grease, back to mall to get tub of grease. Finish brakes.
Sunday get up to work on the atv. Headgasket is blown. Proceed to break of two head bolts and spend entire day drilling and extracting head bolts.
2 very nice days spent working on stuff. Truck repairs should of taken 2 hours not 6 and atv should of been 1 or 2.
Needless to say next weekend I might just stay in bed.
hmy: made ya feel like ya could shit throw a coffee filter dont cough