All over the place today

Needed to fix some of the slats on the porch today: just dry rot, wet rot, what have you, but they were getting that ‘soft’ feel as you walked across them, and I really don’t like the idea of falling through and busting a leg or something.

SO,,,   woodworking day, and that fit perfectly with the other project I mentioned yesterday.

Had to run out to the sawmill, root-hog through their stuff for some decent lumber,,,   Sounds chintzy written out, but they toss off tons of good lumber all the time, not good enough to sell, but good enough for fixing a porch, and,,,   Its what I used to build the side porch, so stay with what works, right?   

Big Problem though.  Got my lumber, but Buffalo is actin’ funky.  Dead miss at low RPMs, definite loss of power across the board.   Limp her around to do my running first, and while I hate driving a gimpy truck, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.   Need dawgum food for Voo, some other stuff for me, and I am gonna hold off on hardware run for now.   

Get the limped beasty back home, pop the hood, to let things cool off a bit faster, and pull out my OBDII reader,,,  Only, ITS not working either: its 9V battery is shot.   Ok, pull the one out of the fluke since I know its good, and I don’t want to run out again.   Good battery, no love from OBDII,,, still no signs of life in the old gal.  CRAP!   Back to OLD SKOOL diagnostics.   

Buffalo can wait, she ain’t goin anywhere, and I have stuff that needs fixing that I know I can fix, RTFN,,, Buff may be a longer term project (read DAYS,,,,)

Porch,  5 boards pulled and replaced. DONE!

Do some work on the Ergometer and get my mind in a better state before I start digging into greasy engine compartments.

Not done by any means, but thats the main body of it. (and you can see some of the boards I replaced in there.)  I decided to do an ellipse instead of an arc on the wobble legs, but those need pulled off and redone to a tighter ellipse: just a leetle TOO stable, defeating the purpose of the wobble.  BUT, I made them so that I could pull them, in case I needed to fix or replace them, and glad I did now.   Lots of work to do yet, but I must get to work on Buffalo before it gets too late, and now she is cool enough to make doing so ‘not painful’.   Old Skool diags: pull the plugs and ‘read’ them, and work backwards from there.  

And so, I am cutting this short to get busy before the daylight leaves me and I am under work lamps, which I dislike (they never put the light where you need it exactly and always seem to be behind you leaving what you are doing in shadow)

More later as I find out what the heck kinda bug Buffalo caught, that’s making her cough and belch in a bad way.