I'm bushed.

Also this morning I replaced the LHF upper control arm bushes in Tru. Not a difficult job but it totally knackered me and made the old heart pump out a few angina signals, ouch.

I was going to do the other side too but that can wait another week till I recover.
They have probably been done before as they seemed to have mixed up the front and rear bushes and put them in the wrong spot. I replaced them with urethane ones that unlike the rubber originals are the same front and rear.

Having a press helps a lot although improvisers wouldn't have much trouble finding a solution. The paint was to identify which bits went where.

Tru's new feet.

Tru's feet had worried me since she came into our family, and now I've finally done something about it.

Her feet were pretty but with too small a rolling radius and her sidewalls were too thin. Racer boys may like 235/45-17 feet but Jimmy doesn't.

I've now returned her to the stock tyre size although she has to put up with base model steel wheels, for me it was the best solution and I can refit her pretty feet when she moves onto another family. Now she has the 215/60-16 feet she was designed for.

Two of her new feet were almost new Gemstone tyres and the other two were half worn Wanli tyres, all made in quality Chinese factories. $320 all up so I'm not complaining.

Enterance?

I failed spelling at school, that sort of killed my career before it even started, but with failure no longer an option at school......

Spotted at Bunnings Townsville when I was waiting to pick up Tru's new feet.

Reflection.

Mere mortals could never do things like this back in the days of film, every photo we ever took then was carefully planned and usage was minimised due to the cost and hassle of processing, but anyway this is the pupil of my right eye, at least it reflects well enough to make out some of the camera details if you like mirror images.

I wonder if the murkiness is the cataracts that my eyes are supposed to be accumulating? Doesn't matter, it's fun to try something new.

Dunno about this.

Probably a useless idea but I thought the trailer would be easier to maneuver with a wheel on its foot, in this case a castor.

Suspect.

I noticed a little thud in the front left of Tru yesterday, had a look and this upper control arm bush is a bit worn.

Hopefully I can get a replacement set tomorrow from Supercheap Auto with their 20% off on Easter Saturday sale. The job seems fairly straightforward and is one I'm not dreading.

Heater coil? No.

Another Jimmy kludge, hopefully one that will function OK.
Mega's old power supply has had a habit of tripping the circuit breaker I installed whenever I've charged a car battery with it, quite surprising considering it's 25 Amp (maybe it's 30A I forget), so the transformer must push out a lot of grunt but I had to protect the 35 Amp bridge rectifier I fitted as it had blown the previous one.

Anyway the silly looking fencing wire coil is to act as a shunt to limit the current slightly, testing seems to deem it successful but it isn't very good as a hand warmer. My meter which isn't very good at low impedances thinks it may have 0.1 Ohm resistance.

The insulators were a bit of broom dowel that I tapered to fit the holes I'd drilled.

Since mega is sure to read this, you're quite welcome to have the flood affected relic back to add to your ancient treasures collection.