September 20, 2011
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got home from the stalag, took us a good pooperdog walk in the fog, then commenced to makin' some bacon egg and cheese mcmuffins (mmmmmms!). afterward, I take a good 4 1/2 hour nap, shower, get my hair cut, stop off at my mechanic and ask about the cost of a new power steering pump (if it's, in fact, bad). he asks me to pull the truck in, he busts out some brake cleaner fluid, and an air nozzle and has me run the car steering wheel back and forth. he says I should be good now. he was able to turn the nut tighter on one of the hoses (that he had replaced) by a good quarter turn. he says "all set", I thank him, then drive off. good news! it looks as if I may not need a new pump...but then as I'm driving away it dawns on me that he could have saved me a $100 on stop leak had he tightened that nut better when he first worked on it
(of course, blaming him, when in fact, I could have brought it in a lot sooner, saving myself that $100...it's more fun to blame him
). oh well. I'll be happy if this solves the problem. we'll see
. anyway, with that fixed, the top 2 on shrimpy truck's fix-it list (the leaky passenger door, and the power steering pump) are complete! I stop off at Burger King for a chicken sammitch, then next door to my favorite beer store for a sixer of Guinness and another of punkin' ale. once home, while grabbing the beers from the back, it dawns on me that I haven't replaced that broken hydraulic jack. I've been driving around for a week with a busted jack [not good!], good thing I haven't gotten a flat since. I'll make a run tomorrow, when I'm out doing some grocery shopping, and grab up a new one.I think about maybe tightening bolts, etc., myself, on that snow blower, being the skid plates and shoot were put on wrong, what else needs attention before I use it? (it's a rugged enough looking machine, but I'm thinking it's assembled half-assed at the Tractor shop), but then when I go to get my wrenches, I realize Brian (almost room mate/neighbor) still has them from that shock job he borrowed 'em for
. he's not home at the moment, but I'll run down when I see his truck in the drive...damn, the bees 'round here are going ballistic (as I'm sittin' on the porch, typing this). must be they know their time is almost up, with that solid freeze on it's way, so why not be as annoying as possible. anyway. I'm thinkin' the second half of my nap is about due...
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