Wed and Friday Home Depot fawked around with me on getting the drywall for my shop - two trips to town in the Travelette and nothing to show for it thus far..
Friday I finally pulled the broken regulator and window out of Oscar.. now I can put it all back together with a good regulator and lots of white lithium.
Saturday I almost went out on a rescue mission.. some Bronco friends got 3 of 'em stuck up in the mountains (one broke down at 2pm, called for help, the other two went out.. didn't make it to the first before they called at 7pm..)
We sent some sleds up at 7pm to get the people, but I still got a call around 11pm (after getting up at 6 to hunt) to come fetch 'em if I could.
Tigger decided I needed the rest. The battery quickly went south before it would start.. my new jump box still wasn't enough to talk it into starting, so out came the jumper cables..
Until I heard an awful grinding ker-chunking sound.
I found this on Sunday..
I ended up pulling the inspection cover from the bellhousing to get the other chunks out.
New starter, new battery, and a new ground lead (found mine was about pulled out of the terminal on the engine.. that might be part of the no-start issues).
Started on the first turn of the key, even on 7cyl (I forgot to reconnect the LF plug wire after replacing the ground cable)
All better now, and my friends got out by themselves around 5am, with people and rigs.
Just finished my final and final project for school - finally a few weeks reprieve from homework.
Oh.. finally finished the trench from the house to the shop for the gasline. Woo-hoo.