Frogman
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Why, you fix it, of course!
A couple three weeks ago I was driving down "my" dirt road, when all of the sudden I hear a "Thump!". My first thought was "Crap, the midget fell out of the truck. I tol' her to not try to climb over the side!"
I looked in my rearview mirror, and there it was... the spare tire fell out from under the truck. I stopped, put the truck in reverse (I was not in the mood to carry an ~80lb tire 100 feet), backed up to the tire and threw it in the bed of the truck... missing the midget by a good three inches. Boy, was she pissed off! She thought I was trying to crush her. I told her "later, maybe, if you're good".
A few days later I jumped on the cellie and ordered a new spare tire winch assembly. Total cost, about 68 bucks plus shipping, IIRC.
Tonight, I decided to throw it on there and re-mount the spare tire. Only problem was, the little metal thingamajig (scientific name) was barely bigger than the wheel hub opening. And I'm talking 1/8" on each side, tops! As such, I could NOT get the wheel to stay on there and it kept sliding off. Wrong part number? Who knows?
So, after talking to a friend of mine on the phone about a car, midgets and peppering my face with still burning gunpowder, I decided to get the bad part fixed.
I went out back and grabbed a piece of 3/16ths steel. Or was it 1/4 inch... hell, I don't remember. Took it inside, mounted it into one of the welding bench vises,
grabbed the plasma cutter,
hooked up the air hose to it, and proceeded to cut a couple of metal strips... But I had no plasma! WTF? After a good 2 minutes of diagnosing, I came to find the problem... I forgot to plug the plasma cutter into a power source... duh.
I then proceeded to cut away.
Then, I had an epiphany... The metal would be better off lying horizontally, and I would likely be better off with some gloves on my hands. They're already beat to hell as it is. And as much as chicks dig war scars, they don't dig "dumbarse scars".
After I flipped the metal and donned some gloves, the cutting started.
Then, came the fun part... welding.
Being that I really didn't feel like taking the winch assembly off, I decided to weld on it mounted. No big deal. My welds wouldn't be THAT bad, right? Wrong!
That's top notch welding there, I tell you!... If you're a blind man. But I think they will work well enough to do the job.
With the help of the midget, I got the tire mounted (man, she kept thinking I was going to crush her with that tire, but I needed her to balance it as I was winching it up). She was not happy. She'll get over it. I told her I'll make her the lead character in my next midget porn feature.
But, in the end, I'm pretty sure my craptacular welding job will work. If it does not, I suppose I'll have to order a new winch assembly and this time make SURE it's the right one.
Now, I'm not quite sure if I was sent the wrong part number, or if there was something else on that spare wheel that worked with the piece that was too short, so ultimately, I'm not 100% sure if the assembly I was sent was the wrong one, or if I was missing something. ~shrug~
Now, where's that scalpel?
ps. How did I burn my face with still burning gun powder? New (to me) muzzle break 8 inches from your face at 900 rounds per minute will do that... But oh, the joy of practically no recoil! I'll put up with a little peppering for this kind of target holding ability.
And as much as I'm against the idea of plastering pictures of my firearms online, this muzzle break is just to cool to not share.
A couple three weeks ago I was driving down "my" dirt road, when all of the sudden I hear a "Thump!". My first thought was "Crap, the midget fell out of the truck. I tol' her to not try to climb over the side!"
I looked in my rearview mirror, and there it was... the spare tire fell out from under the truck. I stopped, put the truck in reverse (I was not in the mood to carry an ~80lb tire 100 feet), backed up to the tire and threw it in the bed of the truck... missing the midget by a good three inches. Boy, was she pissed off! She thought I was trying to crush her. I told her "later, maybe, if you're good".
A few days later I jumped on the cellie and ordered a new spare tire winch assembly. Total cost, about 68 bucks plus shipping, IIRC.
Tonight, I decided to throw it on there and re-mount the spare tire. Only problem was, the little metal thingamajig (scientific name) was barely bigger than the wheel hub opening. And I'm talking 1/8" on each side, tops! As such, I could NOT get the wheel to stay on there and it kept sliding off. Wrong part number? Who knows?
So, after talking to a friend of mine on the phone about a car, midgets and peppering my face with still burning gunpowder, I decided to get the bad part fixed.
I went out back and grabbed a piece of 3/16ths steel. Or was it 1/4 inch... hell, I don't remember. Took it inside, mounted it into one of the welding bench vises,
grabbed the plasma cutter,
hooked up the air hose to it, and proceeded to cut a couple of metal strips... But I had no plasma! WTF? After a good 2 minutes of diagnosing, I came to find the problem... I forgot to plug the plasma cutter into a power source... duh.
I then proceeded to cut away.
Then, I had an epiphany... The metal would be better off lying horizontally, and I would likely be better off with some gloves on my hands. They're already beat to hell as it is. And as much as chicks dig war scars, they don't dig "dumbarse scars".
After I flipped the metal and donned some gloves, the cutting started.
Then, came the fun part... welding.
Being that I really didn't feel like taking the winch assembly off, I decided to weld on it mounted. No big deal. My welds wouldn't be THAT bad, right? Wrong!
That's top notch welding there, I tell you!... If you're a blind man. But I think they will work well enough to do the job.
With the help of the midget, I got the tire mounted (man, she kept thinking I was going to crush her with that tire, but I needed her to balance it as I was winching it up). She was not happy. She'll get over it. I told her I'll make her the lead character in my next midget porn feature.
But, in the end, I'm pretty sure my craptacular welding job will work. If it does not, I suppose I'll have to order a new winch assembly and this time make SURE it's the right one.
Now, I'm not quite sure if I was sent the wrong part number, or if there was something else on that spare wheel that worked with the piece that was too short, so ultimately, I'm not 100% sure if the assembly I was sent was the wrong one, or if I was missing something. ~shrug~
Now, where's that scalpel?
ps. How did I burn my face with still burning gun powder? New (to me) muzzle break 8 inches from your face at 900 rounds per minute will do that... But oh, the joy of practically no recoil! I'll put up with a little peppering for this kind of target holding ability.
And as much as I'm against the idea of plastering pictures of my firearms online, this muzzle break is just to cool to not share.
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