Had a bit of a fight getting the main pinion bearing off, but get her off, I did.   dropped out 3 shims for total of .025″ but the proof is right here in my face.   Really nice contact patch on the drive side of the gear and a small football dead center of the coast side.

Axle bearings, seals and Axles are now installed and that was probably the EASIEST I time I have ever had putting those bloody C-clips back in.   Even with all the springs and gee-gaws in that carrier, full access to the inner shafts.

Tomorrow I seal the thing up and get her ready to go into Buffalo this weekend.    No rush, no rush no rush.   Still have to do the suggested (and highly recommended) break in.  MIld driving for 20 mile round trip, then let cool FULLY, repeat once more.   Supposed to wear that phosphate coating off the ring gear and there is a lot of friction/heat involved in that.  Supposedly enough to cook the heat treatment.  Dunno, but I’ll play that game because I have seen similar in other gear. (and to be frank, the break in almost sounds like a heat treatment process,,,  Heat and slow cool while bathed in oil,,, Sure sounds familiar from Blacksmithing classes.)

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In other news,,, Hunter the crackhead was found guilty on all three counts in his trial.   Yeah,,, good deal, but does ANYONE think that he will serve even one day, or that it goes straight to parole process?   OR, that his Daddy does a presidential pardon on him on the way out?   The only good news in that whole mess was that LAPTOP shenanigan was finally released as NOT CONSPIRACY THEORY, and Lord only knows what directions THAT is going to go in,,,,

All I have to say is there are a lot of people in high places that need to be held accountable, because they completely LIED about that damned laptop, repeatedly, and even during Congressional Hearings,,,,   

Will even ONE be held accountable?  

snort,, giggle,,,

yeah,,,   IF they do, color me surprised and shocked,,,

And I don’t wanna go down any other rabbit holes along those lines at this time,,, Feeling damned good with my progress in the driveway and don’t wanna blow a good vibe over liars and PROFESSIONAL Thieves and CON-artists.   Actually, what I really want?   A SHOWER,  NOW!   

Y’all keep on livin’, ya-hear.

Actually moving RILLY RILLY smooth!!!

Guess all that prep work helped

But,

I need to pull that pinion back out.   It’s set to close to center as the indicator paint shows

Back lash was perfect at 0.015″,  pinion set up was smooth as butter with the crush sleeve set to 15in/lbs preload.

But that indicator tells me the pinion is hogging space,,,,

I ain’t fudging this,,,pull it back out and adjust (pull a 15 thou shim) Yup,  that means a new crush sleeve needed: down right CHEAP compared to a chewed up set of gears because I ignored this.  So I won’t ignore it!!!

That 20ton shop press I made 10 years back has paid for itself on this job.

Ah,  but lights failing me, and tomorrow is a new day.  

Sigh!!!  I feel HUGE relief right now, knowing this is gonna work.  And while it’s a PITA; nowhere as intimidating as I had originally made it out to be in my mind.

Keep on livin’

And now, Dio goes to work after work.

More laters

Keep on livin’!

Lil’one passed away in her sleep  tonight.   Mama-kat’s neglect was too much I guess.   

Guess ya could say my neglect was as well; though I sure bent over backwards,,, probably extended her life by the whole weekend,,,

sigh

Life happens,

So does death.

and death comes for us all eventually.  

And maybe her time just wasn’t NOW,,,   The whole litter passed on quite quickly, so, I can’t say that Mama was just being a hormonal whore,,,    I said it before, I thought they were premmies, and premmies usually have a much harder time of it,

and I certainly am not equiped for them.

Yah, I feel a touch of guilt as I could have gone above and beyond, but did not.  

RIP little one, you have more chances ahead of you.  Maybe the next round will be better from the gate and you get to play and chase butterflies and become the perfect little killing machine God designed you as.

I have no idea how this is gonna play out.   Got frustrated with the Mama-kat and decided I would apply what I think needs done across the spectrum of other problems in the world.   ACCOUNTABILITY.

Mama was just loungin’ around the stead, feelin’ good with herself, and I was the one takin’ care of the babbie,,,  Uh-uh,,, I didn’t get knocked up, this is HER issue.   And I decided it was time to let nature take its course and I will just deal with whatever direction that takes.  

I took the babbie out to her, her out lounging in the driveway, and I layed the babbie right on her belly, saying, “your baby, you deal with her, you have the equipment,”

and walked away.

So far so good,  She is acting more motherly out there, and more than a tad nervous out in the open with a weak helpless dependent.      I did intervene for a quick minute when she got all confuzzed when it started raining, but I did NOT bring her back in the house.   I took the baby, leading Mama, under the carport and just left the baby in a dry spot.

and walked away.

Well, the rain kept a coming.

20 minutes, a small lull in the downpour

and here comes Mama, carrying babbie in her teeth and straight to the nest she had laid out.    

and there she is still.  I hope I kicked the proper hormones back into place by pushing the issue in a ‘danger zone’.   Dunno, playing with instincts can be tricky, but I have no other options short of spending mad cash on kitten formula ($40 a can!!! roughly the same size as a human baby formula can.)   I will if need be, but I want things done ‘naturally’ here.  

and its gonna sound harsh, but if that means the babbie dies, then thats what it means.    Maybe there is some reason Mama is rejecting her, something that is out of my sense range,,, I dunno.     I don’t wanna bury another kitten; I’ve already buried Grizz and the other two kits mama had.   Too many graves in one week.

But I also have to accept the fact that if there is a developmental problem with this babbie and mama senses it and is rejecting her,,,,

No easy choices,,, sometimes there are no choices, you just have to deal.

Sometimes a man has to put down his own dog: Don’t dally, don’t farm it out, just do it and move on.  

paraphrased from Heinlein.

Where to start with this’un,,,,

always start at the start, right? Yeah,,

Mamakat, babbies, lost two,, has one now and keeping her attention on it is wearing this grumpy ol’fart OUT.
The problem being (I THINK) that she lost the majority through issues or accident and now, her hormones have kicked into other modes and she is in heat again. TOO SOON. She keeps running off, chasing Zoomie lookin’ for nookie. Poor little rat of a kitten is left alone for HOURS AND HOURS ON END, I have been holding her to my chest to keep her warm enough, trying to make sure her ‘nest’ is warm when I can’t, and bottle feeding her through the day because I can’t keep Mama nearby enough to keep her focused on her duties.

Mirror that to some of the issues within our society these days. Mama Drama as its been called in some circles. A welfare system that rewards extra/pre-marital child rearing, destruction of Family Unit integrity that creates multitudes of feral children, dead beat dads, and has been doing so for at least a couple of generations,,, I can think of two people in my current spheres that have NO CLUE who Daddy is, and I am not talking who ‘the’ daddy is, but THIER daddy,,, Not a clue, never met the bastard, don’t wanna meet the bastard ’cause he was never around to begin with. Nopes, Why bother with that asshole when Unca Sugah has taken care of them from the start of memory.
NOTE, I am not talking race here, this isn’t a racial issue, its a societal issue that has come about thanks to GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION. That evil created with the best of good intentions,,, the black eye in the white fish in the Yin-Yang symbol.

And I think there are those in power that KNOW the damage done, may have even had some part of it, and encourage it because it helps maintain some agenda,,,,

Yeah, total prospiracy thinks there, bear with me,,,,

Whether that is the case or not, the reality of the damage being waged is real. I may be dealing with wayward mamakat in my household, but what about the tens of thousands of mama-people on the dole popping out babies for a check every month. I know it has created a new trend of kids being raised by granparents because the biological ones aren’t capable or responsible enough to manage it. I know of adoptions within family lines to keep the child with family, because the mother is so far gone mentally, she is barely able to function as an adult.
Is this just because of the welfare system? Could this be a symptom of our Public education system as well? I say YES, but I am just one voice in the wilds of this country. I am also (mostly) self-educated, in no small part because I found my former education was horribly lacking. I find that most aren’t interested in educating themselves ‘because I learned all I needed in school”: a horrid myth created by the monster to perpetuate the disease.

Destroy the Family. Destroy the education. Destroy the faiths. Destroy the Culture. All planks straight out of Marx and Trotsky. (and i was appalled when the Lawyer student that I mentioned in another post, brought up Trotsky as if he were some Paragon of thought,,,, It made me stumble more than a little,,, The ROT goes very deep in our world.)

Where is the solution? Take it back down to base principles, Keep things as localized as possible. And I fear that isn’t possible anymore. I see ‘theories” like Distributionism and they sound good, and thats the problem; they ‘sound’ good, hit all the right emotions of a people scratching for a solution, but when rubber meets the road,,, While its obvious that top down corporatism isn’t working, bottom up localized economies probably won’t either, not in this technology age. I could be wrong here, not seeing some aspect or other. Honestly, its that whole Heinlein paradigm about ‘Who Decides’ (sorry, can’t find it fast on net, and don’t feel like looking through the novels,,) thinking that a small group is better at deciding what right or wrong, or that democratic societies are better,,, Things don’t work that well in application, and EVERY Democratic society commits suicide eventually,,, Apparently so do Republics, usually by becoming ‘democratic’. Some would say there is some merit to Monarchy, but then, we don’t have a representative God to make that decree, nor would 90% of society agree with it. Actually, that whole idea gives me giggle fits,,,

Dunno,,, the future looks bright, but is obsured by the clouds of the past burning down around us. What was, may come back in small ways; we are a nostalgic creature that never wants to let go the past. And what will come will be as hodge-podge as the last ‘experiment’, and human nature will be the ever lasting ‘fuck you’ to any with high ideals. That is the only thing I DO KNOW, we aren’t widgets that you can move around on a chess board and say “THIS”,,,, We wander as we will and for everyone that thinks as you, there are 20 with other ideas.

Keep on livin’/lovin’

Was just out’n’bout, had a dinner at my fave Chinee buffet, (you’d think I would be 300+# as much as I like the stuff,, Nopes, holding that 200# mark still) and they were runnin’ the Communist News Network (Chinese place, DUH!)  and I saw an ad for an upcoming show about NukeLEEarWAHHRRRRRR!!!!   and about spit out a mouthful of Lo-mein when the doggeral hit my brainium of how they were trying to spin it.

First off, not many NORMIES are aware that the Russians are playing a game (they are calling it a training exercise) near the Carribean.   And this isn’t something like what we saw back in the Sixties,,, they are/will be in International Waters so completey Legit: can’t touch them and make demands,,,  No Cuban Missile crisis to help give Ol’Slooooooo-Joe his “JFK” moment of glory.   

BUT, the Commie News peeps are playing that ‘Get your shit ready, the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming’ and playin’ on old fears,,, they were even displaying old Soviet Union memorabilia to dig the hooks of propaganda DEEP. 

But not one person on that side of the screen is saying the one thing that I have been saying since the Whole UkraineKoked-outKlownKar started up.   STOP POKING THE BEAR AND YOU WON’T GET YOUR FUCKING FACE RIPPED OFF.

Ahh,,,, but that doesn’t keep the owners and investors of the MIC happy does it.  GOTz ta keep the war machine rolling or LockheedMartin and the others start losing share value.   “Eeek! my profit margins are shrinking,, I can’t live with the dirt people, you gotta fix this,,, BOMB someone dammit!!!“

Good Dog, I hope I am not the only one that can see through the bullshit.  It was damned near Freshman level Prop I was seeing, so blatantly over the top in trying to drive a certain ‘patriotic’ vibe from the Cold War era,,,,   Honestly, I felt like it was 1983 again for just a moment: except I was looking at a OLED Flat screen TV, not some Giant Projection Screen TV, and there are liver spots on my hands now along with a shit ton of scar tissue well earned.

For the record, assuming that the informaton about the Russian Hypersonics is accurate, DC is a 10 minute MAX flight from where the Ruskies are gonna be playing games.  Those are 10 minutes for DC to clear out and get in hideyholes,,,, AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN

Actually, that last statement is EXACTLY what I think,,, Nothing is gonna happen, The String pullers in DC are gonna take a step back, make some calls to their counterparts in Russia, do some fast talking and next week, business as usual.    That our $haministration continues to poke the BEAR does not bode well, but I feel HONESTLY that Putin and Krew do NOT want a Hot war with Canned sunshine, anymore than the guy in the street does.   That sort of action is pretty final and LIKELY the absolute last resort tactic on his list of ‘fun’.   We really need to replace the whole shebang with fresh blood that isn’t trying to rule the world from a broom closet 20 floors below the White House.   It is VERY obvious to me that they know the upcomine (S)election cycle is gonna have to swing one way, not the other, and even with the resulting riots of Soros backed cronies contesting it, they’ll have to concede the feild to popular vote or risk a SERIOUS uprising of rightously pissed off AmeriCANS, armed to the teeth, with lists and addresses, and an ax to grind.  I think that is the “why” they keep pushing this Ukraine thing to the point of absolute breakdown: they are out of options and need a hailmary pass to get to the goal zone.

Putin putting his warship in potential harms way is showing ME, that he is dead serious in his statements of “Stop sticking your damned noses in the business of Central Europe and West Asia!!!   Pull the NATO pitbull back and give me a buffer zone and I will back off!”   And his calls to that effect are MORE THAN reasonable in my opinion.

Gee, I sure miss mean tweets, <$2/gl gasoline, and NO WARS,,,,  Oh, and reasonably priced food,,,  Kinda miss that a lot too.

sigh,,,, The world moves on.

I’m at balance again, and holding it without needing to resort to kayaking to get there (though I ain’tagonnagiveup me kayaks, no sir!)  (and oh, how I wish I could share that feeling with the world,,,, Sorry, ya gotta find your own path, but it is so WORTH it.)

carry on, keep on livin’/lovin’    We’ll get through this yet and laugh about it later