Old Goat
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Sunday morning we get up to go the Church, and old man winter dumped another 3" of snow on us during the night. OH great.
Hit the garage Door opener, and it starts peeping and complaining. Door it stuck, frozen to the concrete. Kick and bang on the door and it opens up.
Use the Snow Shovel to clean off the concrete around the car in front of the door, and a path over to the truck along side the garage.
I use one of those squeegies with the bug scrubber on a broom handle to push snow off the hood, windshield and roof. Works pretty good.
Shovel around the truck, get in to warm up the block of ice.
then crank up the snow blower to clean off the 150 - 170ft of drive way so my one wheel drive truck can get out and moving.
Its 12 miles to the Church, and none of the roads have been plowed, and the snow was packed down and icy so drove around 35 all the way.
Parked along side the church behind another car, and after svc was over, get in to move the truck, and won`t go into gear, just grinds. Put in reverse, start in gear back up, shut it off, put in first start in gear and move it and shut it off.
I noticed with the clutch pushed in, it wasn`t totally disingaging, slipping and shaking the truck.
Had some cleaning up to do inside, grab my Wife to head for home.
Push in the Clutch, and Bam, peddle hits the floor. look under the dash and the rod came out of my Heim Joint mod., Iam thinking the set screw must have loosened up. I was sure I used loc-tite on it.
We drive the 12 miles home shifting by Rpm`s. It`s all back roads so not much traffic.
I unscrew the 2 haves of the Clutch MC Rod. The damn thing broke off, when I was putting it all together, I drilled a hole in it thinking the set screw would be more secure to hold the Rod. Well there isn`t enough meat on ea side of the hole so it broke.
No problem, I have a new Clutch MC out in the shop, and cut off the ring end and use it. First clue, the jam nut is 10mm, one off truck is, 7/16". metric and SAE.
Head down to O`Reallys and then NAPA thinking they sell new rods. Nope.
"O" wants $50 and NAPA wants $65 for a new MC and who knows what threads the rods are?
So RPM gear jam my way back home.
Did a bunch of Google searching on what to do, and what other guys did etc...
Last night Iam looking at the Heim Joint with the broken piece in it, fiddle around with it and finally get it out. Then the light comes on with that "DUH" moment.
Why can`t I install the round section in and crank down on the set screw? I had it in my mind, when you cut off the ring, you needed the flat part to fit into the sorta oval hole to make it fit right.
So this morning I red Loc-titted the set screw, and cranked down on it real good. Screwed the two 1/2`s together, connected the heim joint, and adjusted the length, and tightened the jam nut.......all good now.
OH! I did use Loc-Tite when I first put it together.
Here Iam stressing over what to do, what to do?
And it was so simple.
Moral to the story...don`t drill an hole in the rod.
Goat
Hit the garage Door opener, and it starts peeping and complaining. Door it stuck, frozen to the concrete. Kick and bang on the door and it opens up.
Use the Snow Shovel to clean off the concrete around the car in front of the door, and a path over to the truck along side the garage.
I use one of those squeegies with the bug scrubber on a broom handle to push snow off the hood, windshield and roof. Works pretty good.
Shovel around the truck, get in to warm up the block of ice.
then crank up the snow blower to clean off the 150 - 170ft of drive way so my one wheel drive truck can get out and moving.
Its 12 miles to the Church, and none of the roads have been plowed, and the snow was packed down and icy so drove around 35 all the way.
Parked along side the church behind another car, and after svc was over, get in to move the truck, and won`t go into gear, just grinds. Put in reverse, start in gear back up, shut it off, put in first start in gear and move it and shut it off.
I noticed with the clutch pushed in, it wasn`t totally disingaging, slipping and shaking the truck.
Had some cleaning up to do inside, grab my Wife to head for home.
Push in the Clutch, and Bam, peddle hits the floor. look under the dash and the rod came out of my Heim Joint mod., Iam thinking the set screw must have loosened up. I was sure I used loc-tite on it.
We drive the 12 miles home shifting by Rpm`s. It`s all back roads so not much traffic.
I unscrew the 2 haves of the Clutch MC Rod. The damn thing broke off, when I was putting it all together, I drilled a hole in it thinking the set screw would be more secure to hold the Rod. Well there isn`t enough meat on ea side of the hole so it broke.
No problem, I have a new Clutch MC out in the shop, and cut off the ring end and use it. First clue, the jam nut is 10mm, one off truck is, 7/16". metric and SAE.
Head down to O`Reallys and then NAPA thinking they sell new rods. Nope.
"O" wants $50 and NAPA wants $65 for a new MC and who knows what threads the rods are?
So RPM gear jam my way back home.
Did a bunch of Google searching on what to do, and what other guys did etc...
Last night Iam looking at the Heim Joint with the broken piece in it, fiddle around with it and finally get it out. Then the light comes on with that "DUH" moment.
Why can`t I install the round section in and crank down on the set screw? I had it in my mind, when you cut off the ring, you needed the flat part to fit into the sorta oval hole to make it fit right.
So this morning I red Loc-titted the set screw, and cranked down on it real good. Screwed the two 1/2`s together, connected the heim joint, and adjusted the length, and tightened the jam nut.......all good now.
OH! I did use Loc-Tite when I first put it together.
Here Iam stressing over what to do, what to do?
And it was so simple.
Moral to the story...don`t drill an hole in the rod.
Goat