It’s like the old joke about hitting yourself with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop. Last week Neighbor L lamented that, in addition to all the other back-and-forthing she has to do, she needed to take her Jeep to the big town about 50 miles away to get it all new shocks. And I impulsively blurted, “Oh, I can do that for you.”
I don’t regret it, exactly, because what with D so laid up and the constant trips to doctors’ offices she really is busy enough to stress anybody out and it’s something I really can do for her – but I can’t say I didn’t sort of regret it while laying on the ground with her Jeep’s low-slung fuel tank in my face and trying to persuade long-frozen bolts to let go of a shock absorber. This sort of thing is never easy, exactly, but I’m pretty sure it was easier 40 years ago. Anyway, two hours after starting I finished – with the rear shocks – and told her I’d get the fronts tomorrow because I was beat.
And I will, too – front shocks are dead easy on a TJ. But I was swaying on my feet; time to give it a rest.
You’re a good neighbor, Joel. An all-too rare commodity these days.
At some point you don’t even want to change your oil.
God Bless You and Protect You. Even easy things sometimes do not go easy. You will be in my prayers for this tonight and tomorrow. FYI; Some of your readers pray for you in your hermit life on the frontier/ the edge.
You are a good dude, Joel.
Go ahead, be embarrassed now.
You are a member of humanity despite yourself 😉
Good on you lad- doing the difficult things for our friends is what really counts in the long run. God will see your good works!
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I sure hope you have a cordless 1/2″ impact tool for the job, along with a can of PB Blast or equivalent bolt loosener lube. If the answer is NO, then you need to get one, something I can probably arrange as these tools come up for auction here fairly frequently. No sense in spending for new in box when half price is possible. Let me know.
Yep, at now 75, I was cutting down and bucking up a tree on my daughter’s property recently, I’m gonna sell my chainsaw. That kinda work ain’t as easy as it once were, time catches up to us Joel…..sigh
I was really wishing for an impact wrench yesterday. Never owned one that wasn’t air powered.
Joel, you mean to say that you don’t have an electric impact driver? Terrapod’s right, if you are going to do stuff like this, you need one. You can get battery powered ones or corded ones you can plug into the Honda. The one I have is a corded Craftsman.
https://www.amazon.com/CRAFTSMAN-Impact-Wrench-7-5-Amp-CMEF901/dp/B07QH3MBQ2