A dagnabbit sorta day

I’m gonna jump on the stage and issue a formal apology: I teased you about the podcast, not intentionally. I came back home after doing the domestics thing, busting a knuckle or two on Bloo-Twuck, and as I was listening through for edit purposes,,,

No,,, You don’t want to hear that crap,,,

Discombobuluated, randomized garbage about Poly-tickians, bought and paid for media platforms, and yet another Anti-Tax rant.

Maybe it can be salvaged, possibly re-written or something: odd that as I don’t run scripts, but there were some solid valid points, buried within, just the whole was not on par to what I want to produce.

SO,,, Instead, I will tell you about my busted knuckles session.

Got that Beeatch drum off the hub. Doesn’t look too bad in the pic, but I did have to destroy some parts to do the deed. Shoes and hardware, replaceable stuff, so no real loss. The axle is definitely free to spin now. Ordered shoes and hardware and that passengers p-brake cable. ( the Drivers side looks newish and works flawlessly. I know it isn’t new, but no dings in the shroud anywhere and it moves freely) Those should be here this week before next weekend.

Yes, thats a demo hammer to the right. Closest thing I had to an airhammer,,,

Then I put things back together, sorta: enough that I could put the tires back on and lower that end back to terra firma. And get into the front axles.

Had to place a second order for parts. Calipers and pads.

It took quite a bit to get the caiper on the DS off. Three foot crowbar and a lot of swearin’. And when I tried to compress the piston back,,,,

that plate was flat,,, Those calipers are locked solid. At least the DS is. I couldn;’t get the tire off the Passengers side to verify, but I don’t replace calipers singly, nor bearings. The rotors are good, (what I can see of the passengers side, mirrors what I saw on the Drivers side.) and right now, I have that hub (ps) hosed down with Free-all (the same way I had done on the drivers side,,, Why didn’t I do both at the same time? I dunno,,,) By the time all the parts are here,, I should be able to fire up the engine and use the Power steering to rock that rim off the hub (same as I already did on the drivers side, hoping both would come free)

And I did something most techs/mekaniks don’t do. I used a die grinder to clean up all the rust on the hubs and inside the rims, then ran some silicon grease over the exposed metal. (keeps them from binding up later,,,) Thats the biggest problem I am running into on BLoo: things bound up with age and rust. I’m not fighting abused history, just serious neglect and TIME, in an area that is borderline RainForest level humidity/moistures. I will duplicate this on the passenger front tire when I get it broke loose. Its looking like this coming weekend is gonna be Me, hip deep in brakes and hydraulic line repair/replace. Other than that one tire, everything else is near ready to be replaced or pulled the rest of the way off and swapped out.

And if I get lucky with that mastercylinder, I should be able to move her up the hill to my house for all the other little piddlin things that are needed done. I am crossing fingers, but I know I may end up needing to do a clutch and other parts yet. Getting her up the hill will give me better access to her and less working out of the back of Buffalo.

I will get back to podcasting here on the regular,,, I just need to schedule my time to do so, AND, spend a bit of time coming up with my talking points, not that scatterbrained rabbit chase I spent too much time on last night.

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