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10th - Dodge Service
With the Fishburn Fly/Drive-In just
a few days away and a sunny morning, I got to work servicing the Dodge.
It had been a couple of weeks since I'd done the plugs and tinkered with
the ignition, but even without a charge, it started at the second press
of the starter. It was run up to temperature to warm up the oil, then
stopped and the sump plug pulled. |
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| While the oil was draining, I started greasing everything. Transmission oils were checked and topped up while I was under there. It wasn't long before the gun was empty and needed refilling. I learned a while ago, that when filling the grease gun, it was worth putting a locking bolt in the hole next to the plunger. If you are filling it with more grease and knock the plunger, the spring pulls it in and will launch the grease out of the open end. A bolt in the hole stops the plunger from slipping. |
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| I thought my phone was in the cab, but it had actually fallen out of my back pocket, screen down, onto the gravel drive under the Dodge. While crawling around trying to grease everything, I managed to force it into the gravel. When I found it, I thought I'd crushed the screen, but I was lucky that it was only the screen protector that I had well and truly destroyed. The phone will live to call another day! Not too long after I finished with the Dodge the sky went dark and the rain came hammering down again. You can see splash/impacts on the roof of the Dodge like meteorites hitting the Moon!! |
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