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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Where do I start???

Well, it looks like I got to make another important decision again today. With the help of OFM Barney, yesterdays important decision to go eat at San Juan's Mexican Restaurant in Port Aransas was a total success. That old Barney can surely put some food away. Clean his plate up lickity split. I were just bout half done with my "sizzl'n fajitas" when I see old Barney eye ball's my shrimps. Yes I shared.

Put'n plans down on a piece of paper seems to always pay off in the long run. We talk'n slide out repairs here ya know. Ya see, I got to raise the slide out room as far up as it will go, what ain't but a couple inches, to get to the rollers it sits on. Straight up with a little tilt out at the bottom. Last night, me and Bubba toted some concrete blocks to build a base for the house jacks (railroad jacks). Photos will be posted as we progress into this dreaded job.

One characteristic of a Jeep is called the "death wobble". Usually caused by worn bushings and grommets in the front suspension. It grows worse when modifications have been made, like lift kits, oversized tires, and in my case, replacing standard suspension with long arm suspension. When I bought "that jeep", it had all the above....even the "death wobble". You can google death wobble to see what I'm talk'n bout. This repair project will wait till more "repair" research is done.

Ok....things to do ya know....laters.

See what I was tell'n ya...I got photos.
Got to the rollers, but no way to remove any of them. The first 2 pics show the rollers against the flooring. That's not good as it stops them from rolling. How to fix that? You watch old Billy Bob break out his wood chisels....cut that floor'n slap out the way. *Knock on wood* 


This last roller has an issue. Due to infiltration of water, the sub floor has softened and the roller sinked into it bout a quarter inch. "Let me see ya fix that Billy Bob". Gonna be do'n some think'n on that. Since the sub floor is soft, I should be able to prys the screws out with no problem. Then shim up the roller with a couple pieces of 3/8 inches plywood......what ya think?

7 comments:

  1. That header pictures shows just how nice Sally da house looks. How do you keep it so clean. Mine is a dark color and all the pollen and dust and dried rain drops show up very clearly. Good luck on the repairs, I do not envy you today.

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  2. Good luck on that one, it looks like it ain't gonna be an easy one to fix.

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  3. Dang!!! I wouldn't want to tackle that job.

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  4. Ok here is an idea, remove the roller, then find a piece of flat steel wide enough to allow you to attach the roller and wide enough to allow you to screw it into solid wood, predrill the steel plate and put in good screws.

    FIX THE WATER LEAK.

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  5. There's better house jacks than those but they'll do.

    Death rattle or not, lots of caster is still a good cure sometimes, but don't take my advice, I've trained alignment men that were just idiots so there's a lot of idiot alignment idiots out there.

    Soft floor? No problem, dig out the soft part, put a few ounces of gas or lacquer thinner in a bowl and melt styrofoam in it until you have a nice ball of gooey/gluey stuff and mix sawdust in it and spread it on the repair to make a really tough plastic wood that will never go bad again. I kid you not.

    But hey, don't listen to me, you think I'm an idiot and you know everything.

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  6. Ok here is an idea, remove the roller, then find a piece of flat steel wide enough to allow you to attach the roller and wide enough to allow you to screw it into solid wood, predrill the steel plate and put in good screws.

    I suppose that would also work and stainless steel if the scrap recycler has some to sell you would be really good as it doesn't rust. Even aluminum would do if it's thick enough to stand up to the weight.

    You wouldn't even need screws, use my homemade styrofoam water proof glue trick or shoe goo.

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  7. River and BBC, wish I could use your suggestion of a piece of metal screwed into solid wood. After inspection of the area, there's not much solid wood to screw into. My blog tomorrow will explain, along with the "gigger rig" repair I came up with.

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