Running repairs to Easter
This Easter I really wasn’t motivated or organised to do didly squat, I have 2 weeks annual leave starting 5pm Friday the 21st (4 days away) to facilitate the Fraser Island Fishing and Drinking Expo 2006, and I was also on call for work so I figured it would be good to take it easy.
I didn’t move much far between my desk and the fridge on Friday, had a few work calls and a hangover from some vendor sponsored drinks on Thursday night. Saturday was almost the same other than a trip to the shops for beer and milk. I am guessing that they were not open Sunday or Monday as their meat section was 50% off so I left with enough food to feast on meat for the remander of the weekend and probably the next week. (Too much information?)
Sunday I did some work on the Blue Soldier, new Narva spotties, new rubber for the loose shock absorber, got some tools. Not much really.
Today I pax’d with ironpaw on a run out to Ormeau. The first fun bit ended up taking out ironpaw’s relay tie rod, below.
We (ironpaw with opinions form everyone else) used the hilift jack to bend it using the front bar and winch rollers on ironpaws 40 series (below), then a bit more levering it in the bull bar.
We figured this looked a lot less stuffed and would get us home.
So the plan is for ironpaw to get a 75 series tie rod, which is better, so something else breaks instead, and to get it before Fraser :)
Pics and a 47mb! video are located HERE!