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Gettin' 'er Done [message #254000]

Tue, 01 July 2014 14:09

George Beckman

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Registered: October 2008
Location: Colfax, CA

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I like to get things done. That doesn't mean I do them, I just like to get things done.

Right before the trip from California to the Branson Rally, last fall, the speedometer quit. This made me grumpy because I have fuel injection and without the speedometer working I don't have Lean Cruise; I don't have my MPG reading. Upon examination, I began to realize that the speedometer gear, where the speedometer cable attaches, was wallowed out inside. The second night out I cut up a soda can and made some shims to shove in with the cable tip. The speedometer worked and I was a happy man.

Since that time I jammed more soda can slivers in the back of the speedometer gear. Manny to the rescue. I had a good one on my work bench, along with other unfinished projects. I like to keep my unfinished project handy.

Today, because I like to get things done, I put the new part in... after months of procrastination. I suppose because I finally got the new fan clutch in a couple of weeks ago I was inflamed with checking things off my list.

As I lay under the coach, admiring my work, I could see grease zerks. If I twisted my head I also could see my grease gun under my work bench. It is warm today and the cement was cool in the barn so I rested a bit, deciding if I wanted to do one of my unfavorite jobs. I decided to grease the motor home. After all, it was already on jack stands.

As I was twisting and turning, grunting and straining, I remembered an article in the paper about a fellow with a Rolls Royce in the next town over. The article said it had a pedal on the floorboards you could push to send grease to all fittings.

If I had one of those pedals I could get things done. Maybe I could mount one by my chair, in the house.

'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
Best Wishes,
George

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		Gettin' 'er Done By: George Beckman on Tue, 01 July 2014 14:09
		Re: Gettin' 'er Done By: Keith V on Tue, 01 July 2014 15:06
		Re: Gettin' 'er Done By: djester on Tue, 01 July 2014 15:13
		Re: Gettin' 'er Done By: cbryan on Tue, 01 July 2014 17:39
		Re: Gettin' 'er Done By: kerry pinkerton on Tue, 01 July 2014 18:39
		Re: Gettin' 'er Done By: SteveW on Tue, 01 July 2014 18:50
		Re: [GMCnet] Gettin' 'er Done By: Ken Henderson on Tue, 01 July 2014 19:18
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		Re: Gettin' 'er Done By: Ken Burton on Wed, 02 July 2014 04:02
		Re: Gettin' 'er Done By: cbryan on Wed, 02 July 2014 09:44
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		Re: [GMCnet] Gettin' 'er Done By: George Beckman on Thu, 03 July 2014 01:21
		Re: [GMCnet] Gettin' 'er Done By: midlf on Thu, 03 July 2014 07:08
		Re: Gettin' 'er Done By: SteveW on Wed, 02 July 2014 10:09
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