Rodney_Hamon

Between the plymie and the door entrance to my studio I have caught 20 mice in the traps with peanut butter.  I leave for Portland and Bend tonight for 1.5 weeks so that bucket of water ramp trap has to wait until I get back. Been busy last 3 weeks cleaning and fixing damage from a hailstorm with golf ball size hail.  It shredded many things. No antifreeze will be added as I have a super nosy lab watching my every move.   Life in the way again.  

I looked at their online catalog today and there were none.  However, the stuff available in it only made me want a power wagon. Lol. Graingers does have a torsion spring so I need to order one to play with.  Life got in the way recently so that’s interrupted things. Thanks for that suggestion though.  It was great eye candy.  

70’s in Texas already?  Great goal to finish the truck and go to the lumber yard Los. I wanted to finish my truck enough to haul trash to the transfer station. Upper 40’s in the garage today so I put the battery tender back on the truck. No wind finally so that allowed me to do roof repair on the mother-in-law cottage and clean the barbecue grill.  Cleaning a grill in January seems odd but it was a decent day.  My daughter just graduated from college and her buddies are flying in to spend a week with her and stay at the cottage and discover New Mexico. They all fly back east to home a week later. I might find time to mopar
-tinker then. 

Thanks Neighborhood Mod for the pix fix !  I searched a bit for an 8 mm spade.  I looked at restoration stuff web site etc. I decided to repair the broken switch and it was easy enough after finding the spring.  I did clean that used switch proper prior. Took a chisel to secure the backing so it wouldn’t come apart again.  Called AB and he apologized and said it was the only switch for my truck and it didn’t have the fasteners.  He offered to take it back but that’s cool. I decided to keep it. So I rifled through my nuts and bolts and screws inventory and found 3 screws meant for grounding electrical stuff. They screwed right in with no drilling so problem solved.  The good thing about posting a problem to this forum is you will get some thoughts on how to fix it. It gives me pause to think a bit deeper how to solve and go forward.  

I ordered a catalog from Steele 2 days ago so that will help my search for seals and grommets and a vent lever knob etc.  Choices to choose from will be Steele, AB, Roberts, Kanter doesn’t do this territory much, and a little web search which moparpro may pop up. Looking at my firewall I noticed a broken spring that is on the gas pedal linkage rod under the floor bd.  Damn. No wonder the pedal return seemed soft. phone service is really lousy today.  It’s why I rely on hard copy catalog because of the terrible cell reception where I am.