It’s called life,,,

Feeling much better today. Whatch’all didn’t know was that I put new wheelbearings on Buffalo yesterday. Yes, while fighting of internal buggies n such, but before I tipped the bottle,,,

and that wasn’t the danged problem.

Pretty much knew it when I jacked up the front end and didn’t get ANY wobble or wiggle out of the suspected bad side. (note, I just did wheel bearings on her two years ago, and those were definitely bad).   well, money spent, send it.  go through all the motions and I slways do suspension parts in pairs: anything else is false economy.

and the noize was exactly the same as before.

Low Differential fluid,,,   Topped of the front diff and the noize abated.    GM front drives are always in motion, just not fully engaged across both wheels.

I feel a bit miffed that I didn’t figure that out before I went and spent a chunk of cash on the parts.  BUT, I have two good bearings sitting on the shelf for the future (not a danged thing wrong with them so I boxed em and when/if these bearings start to fail, there they are.).  

Its one thing to be mad at myself for a simple (NEWB) mistake, but then, I am not turning wrench everyday like I usedta back in the day…. Nor is my hearing all that these days.   That I could hear it tells me it was getting really bad. but diff gears are robust, they just need lots of lube to not burn up.

It’s called life.  We age, things fail, on us and things around us, and we keep moving forward in time, until such time as we don’t, but time never stops.  Mistake made, and may be made again later down the road.  BUT, next time, I check fluids before I go dropping cash.

It’s kinda icky out today.  Grey April skies, threats of rain (that we need!) and chilly.    Seeing how I just fought off the bugs, I think I wanna hold off on kayaky stuff today, maybe even build a fire in the stove to knock the chill in the house down. (gotta watch that though, its real easy to turn the house into a literal oven.)

And that means I work on writing stuff,,,,   Still working on that re-write and sequel so there is that,,,,

more laters as I get the gumption,,,