Whis weekend was really, really busy. Throughout the previous week, I'm making the most of my time in voluntary exile by hitting the auto parts stores to scrounge up the remaining brake parts. Given the nature of my location, I still had to come back to Sanford for a few finishing touches. I do, now, have all of the parts necessary to put the system back together. I still need to pick up some clips to hold the steel lines on.
Last weekend, I had a brilliant idea. No, seriously, this isn't one of my "brilliant ideas," this was actually a GOOD idea. I decided to buy a shed! I can put all the parts currently sitting in the bed of the truck, plus the gangbox, plus any parts I have yet to take off into the shed! Not only that, I can put my lawn tools in the shed and use the space gained to build a workbench! The hard part was convincing my landlord to let me put one in. I had to go with a really small one, a 6' x 8', to convince them to let me have one, but it's certainly better than no shed at all!
A great deal of Saturday morning (after going to Napa) involved the procurement and assembly of the shed. Mike and I got the floor frame together and Erik did a lot of heckling, but we stopped because Mike and I had a BBQ to go to. The shed, conveniently fitting inside the garage, will have to wait until next weekend.
Back to the subject at hand, the truck. That blasted anchor pin that I couldn't remove last weekend? The one I need to pull to replace the last wheel cylinder to finish the right front brake? I borrowed a rather hefty Dewalt electric impact wrench with a real set of impact sockets from work. That failed. Tried putting the open end wrench I borrowed on it, with a jack underneath. I stopped because I'm worried that we might irreparably damage the bolt by rounding it off or something before we get it out. I bought a can of PB blaster, and hopefully Mike will soak it down and beat it with a hammer every night. That might be enough.
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