Thursday, August 21, 2008
And on the eighth day, while distracted, God created Jeep.
Another 6 hour Jeep ride and I am back home again. It was a hoot of a drive with mechanical bodily fluids squirting, dripping and oozing all over the place, but better than the drive down. On the drive down I kept an eye on the severity of the oil leak by the amount puddling on the fenders. Changed out the oil bath oil filter for a paper element which did punch the fuel mileage up to 15mpg, a dramatic boost over the 10 mpg I got going there. It cost me $70 to drive back compared to $104 on the way down. With summer over, it is time to get down to the serious business of whatever it is I do. That is what I keep telling myself anyway but instead I have been messing around online for 2 hours.
I purchased wheel bearings for that crappy little trailer made so famous in the "hick" photo. Normal bearings sets run $10-$15 a wheel. Not this hunk-o-crap. At $60 a wheel these bearings are hand forged in the mountains of Mongolia by Buddhist monks before being smuggled into this country in tubs of yak butter. The Napa guy advised me to take 'real good care' of these because he was not sure he can get another set of 'those little (expletive deleted)ers'. Fantastic! At least the old ones were in need of replacement, their condition fell someplace between "wow you still pull this" and "oh shit". Lets just say I rumbled down the road to my own bass line.
I purchased wheel bearings for that crappy little trailer made so famous in the "hick" photo. Normal bearings sets run $10-$15 a wheel. Not this hunk-o-crap. At $60 a wheel these bearings are hand forged in the mountains of Mongolia by Buddhist monks before being smuggled into this country in tubs of yak butter. The Napa guy advised me to take 'real good care' of these because he was not sure he can get another set of 'those little (expletive deleted)ers'. Fantastic! At least the old ones were in need of replacement, their condition fell someplace between "wow you still pull this" and "oh shit". Lets just say I rumbled down the road to my own bass line.
