19th October 2017
Today was fix the truck day. I drove with Larry to pick up the rear struts and mounts from the auto parts shop. I volunteered to help because it requires you have five foot long arms with two elbows to successfully do this job single handedly. I rented a spring compression kit, and the moment I opened the box and just touched the tool my hands were black. What is it with car mechanics, everything gets dirty in seconds? However it took just a couple of hours, or eight cigarettes to complete, so I hope now that the clunking from the back end has been cured.
I finally got round to fitting the steel angle to the garage to straighten it allowing it to close properly. That was a fun job as it required thin fingers to position the nuts in a channel section. After a lot of bad language, I managed to get the steel angle secured. Trying to straighten the kinked section of the door was really hard, as it was too shallow to pull it down with a G clamp. It would take too long to describe how I did it, and make a safety officer soil themselves, but it came together okay.
There was nervousness the first time of operation. The door must now be pre-stressed, and there might have been the possibility of the door sailing through the air and landing in Larry’s yard, and that would knock the ash off his ciggi.
Another Lifetime to go 