Grumpy AGAIN

[STEVE IN MASS]

EErrrrrr.....

Was supposed to be at the Ditch fishing this AM.....

Yesterday, while gasing up the Volvo, noticed the front tires were pretty worn (again!)....decided I couldn't drive down 495 like that....I've been needing an alignment for awhile now since I replaced the tie-rod ends about 8 months ago, but since the Old Dead Volvo that is my driveway had 4 new tires on it, I have just been switching them out as they become worn, and have been putting off the alignment. But, now, I was out of tires, so........

Went to the junk yard in that nasty heat yesterday.....picked up 2 decent used tires for $10 a piece.....came home, go to get the floor jack out of the old car. Well, seems the wasps/hrnets have built a nest in the old Volvo....under the hood, in the door jams, in the hatch....I got attacked and stung twice.....


After fleeing from the wasps, I pulled the rims off the Volvo, put the spare on one side, put an old worn tire on the other. Brought the rims and the new tires to be mounted and balanced......as I sweated

In the meantime, I came home and jacked up the car AGAIN, and decided to adjust the tie rods a bit so as not to wear the "new" tires, until I could get a proper alignment.....as I sweated some more.

Go back, pick up the mounted tires, come home, jack up the car AGAIN, and change them out. At this point, my T-shirt is soaked, I'm full of grease and grim, and my arm is swollen and stinging from the wasp sting. But I was done.......

Took it for a ride last evening to get some Chinese food, and noticed a bit of a squeal from the tires on the side roads....

Oh well, I thought, it will be okay for the ride in the early AM, and I'll deal with it after fishing on Saturday.

Woke up at about 1 AM.....pack up the stuff and head off......got about 5 miles and decided the squeal was getting worse....and then it occured to me that I must have been brain dead from the heat (or the wasp sting) yesterday......I turned the tie-rods the WRONG WAY and made the camber even worse!

Turned around and came back home....went back to bed....

All fixed this morning, I jacked up the car AGAIN, and set it back in the RIGHT direction this time 3 turns past were it originally was....and now everything is golden.

BUT I WANTED TO FISH.....so no doubt every guy at the canal caught a thirty+ pounder this AM.....

And it's about 10 AM, and already way too nasty out to mow the rest of the lawn without losing 450 gallons of sweat....