This past tuesday my company had their Christmas party, which was over at 3pm. My family and I had another Christmas party to go to at 6pm, and so aside from the 1 hour drive home, I thought I'd use an hour to wrap Christmas presents. I'd be home alone, because Graham and the wife were in Lancaster at school, and would just go from there to the party, and Matthias was home from college visiting friends in the Night Moose. Well back around Thanksgiving, the Night Moose spit an alternator belt out, and he replaced it. Of course the power steering belt had to come off to do that, and so when I checked out the repair, I noticed that he had that power steering belt pretty damn tight. But I thought to myself, well.... if he takes out a bearing, it will teach him not to tighten stuff so much. So, as I'm leaving the parking lot at the first Christmas party, I get a phone call. "Dad, I'm driving down the road and all of the sudden my steering got stiff, and I looked in the mirror and saw something roll into someones front yard.". Long story short, the crankshaft pulley sheared between the 2nd and 3rd V belt groves! A combination of too tight a belt and a very rusty 26 year old pulley just proved too much for the ol' Night Moose. So, I went home, grabbed a pulley off the spare motor, and took it to Lancaster. Matthias did the repair in the rain, in front of a friends house. A fitting thing to have happen to a Materials Engineering major. He's learning well, and to date, to the best of my knowledge, he is the ONLY person in this community to have sheared off the parts that bolt onto EACH end of the crankshaft.
We were 45 minutes late to the second Christmas party, but they hadn't even ordered yet, so it was cool. I still need to wrap my presents.
We were 45 minutes late to the second Christmas party, but they hadn't even ordered yet, so it was cool. I still need to wrap my presents.