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Oct. 17th, 2009 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogWe attacked Posi's control arm on his car again last night. Moira asked me this morning why it is that, whenever Posi and Juan and I all get together to work on a car, it involves the use of phrases like 'cutting torch'. I think the answer to that is really that, if a cutting torch hadn't been necessary, we would have managed to get it done, just the two of us.
After Juan spent a chunk of time trying other methods, he finally drove out to get his oxy-acetylene rig. He ended up cutting the control arm off of the car (I got to stand by with a water bottle to put out the burning rubber bushings between rounds of torch). The metal sleeve that the bolt passes through inside the bushing (which is what the bolt was stuck to) was bowed out about a quarter inch in radius from the build up of rust inside of it, which was holding it like a vice. Posi and I had tried not only full force application of a sledge hammer, but a bottle jack braced against car frame to move it and it hadn't budged. "Worst case scenario" was the phrase Juan used to describe it.
Amazing how that seems to keep happening to our cars.
By the way: seriously, anyone local to SE Wisconsin and NE Illinois (or even out by Madison too, since he lives there) who needs car work, just let me know and I'll connect you with Juan. He isn't always available, but he works for less than I think he's worth, and he really knows what he's talking about.
Anyway, I am showered and feeling much better. I'm going to work on more Ebay stuff today, I think. I also want to drive over to my parents' house and give my dad more of the modular hard drives I found in the garage that will fit the USB modular hard drive bay that I gave him a while ago. He should have plenty of removable storage!
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awful_horrid, I found that box of cable for you. I'll come drop it off sometime! Maybe next week?
I hope everyone's having a good day!
After Juan spent a chunk of time trying other methods, he finally drove out to get his oxy-acetylene rig. He ended up cutting the control arm off of the car (I got to stand by with a water bottle to put out the burning rubber bushings between rounds of torch). The metal sleeve that the bolt passes through inside the bushing (which is what the bolt was stuck to) was bowed out about a quarter inch in radius from the build up of rust inside of it, which was holding it like a vice. Posi and I had tried not only full force application of a sledge hammer, but a bottle jack braced against car frame to move it and it hadn't budged. "Worst case scenario" was the phrase Juan used to describe it.
Amazing how that seems to keep happening to our cars.
By the way: seriously, anyone local to SE Wisconsin and NE Illinois (or even out by Madison too, since he lives there) who needs car work, just let me know and I'll connect you with Juan. He isn't always available, but he works for less than I think he's worth, and he really knows what he's talking about.
Anyway, I am showered and feeling much better. I'm going to work on more Ebay stuff today, I think. I also want to drive over to my parents' house and give my dad more of the modular hard drives I found in the garage that will fit the USB modular hard drive bay that I gave him a while ago. He should have plenty of removable storage!
Also:
awful_horrid, I found that box of cable for you. I'll come drop it off sometime! Maybe next week?I hope everyone's having a good day!
