What did YOU do today?


Bought an exercise bike. I've never had a recumbent bike before. But have wanted one for decades. There IS learning curve. It's not as easy as the one at my cardiac rehab class. This one falls over.
What did YOU do today?
What did YOU do today?
 
There's one about 25 miles clear across Denver. With traffic that's probably at least 3 gallons of gas.
Totally worth it. They have a massive rotating wall of filament and pros who can help.
 
Was never much of a Brittney Spears fan, but one of her song titles is ringing true for working on my car right now. Oops!... I did it again

Carried forward pressing my steering knuckle back together without the brake shield this afternoon. Got both knuckles installed, still need to hit with the torque wrench, but everything is at an initial round of german torque. Popped the rotors back on, so that I could torque everything, pop the calipers on and finish torquing tomorrow/Saturday. Well about half way home I realized that I never reinstalled the snap ring in the problematic side. Guess next step is to pull that knuckle back off, and do it again. At least I don't have to press the hub and bearing back out for that.
 
Was never much of a Brittney Spears fan, but one of her song titles is ringing true for working on my car right now. Oops!... I did it again

Carried forward pressing my steering knuckle back together without the brake shield this afternoon. Got both knuckles installed, still need to hit with the torque wrench, but everything is at an initial round of german torque. Popped the rotors back on, so that I could torque everything, pop the calipers on and finish torquing tomorrow/Saturday. Well about half way home I realized that I never reinstalled the snap ring in the problematic side. Guess next step is to pull that knuckle back off, and do it again. At least I don't have to press the hub and bearing back out for that.

Damn, bad luck. Sometimes you get so stressed out about something, and the more you concentrate, the more it flies off the handle. Been there, done that, too many times.

But take comfort in the old saying: “Any job worth doing is worth doing twice!“
 
Yesterday was fetching the radius arm mounts off my donor cab and frame for the F-150. The ones on the donor were original (still riveted on) and look like brand new. My F-150 has just rusted out the replacement set of mounts so that tells you how clean my donor parts are, lol. I’m not worried about taking these off the donor, when I rebuild the truck, I’m not going to use stock mounts anyway, going to long arm it like my Choptop and 88.
 
Well fudge…

Worked on unloading the Choptop and cleaning up the brackets for the radius arms for the F-150. Dug out what I had for bushings to try and piece something together. Cleaned a bunch of rust off things under the truck, used a face shield and was trying to be careful and I got a hunk of rust in my eye. It’s out now but it scratched the sh!1 out of my eye. So yeah, nothing is actually done, truck is still broken and I get to go to the eye doctor tomorrow at 8am. Yay me.
 
3 times for me. Not fun when they need to dig out some metal...
I was really trying to be careful, which I don’t always do, but here we are anyway. I think the wind blew it in or something because it happened after I got out from under the truck.
 
Busy day, got a few parts in yesterday for the F150, tried the egr bypass (I know- couldn’t break the tube nut loose so just slid the plate & gasket in, would at least see if it made any difference) That did nothing, moved on to the map sensor and YES! that was it. Ran it up the road & back, runs like it should, idles fine. Not going to return any of the other things I had ordered, may need them later. Went to a few yard sales, did the weekly grocery trip. Started on getting ready for the shed I got 2 weeks ago. First where its going has a lot of junk, but the yard trailer I planned to use for that is full of tires-over 20. mostly ranger wheels. Offloaded & took pictures so I can put them up for sale then loaded them in to the back of the truck, took my now empty yard flatbed & loaded up all the stuff from the gravel area where the shed will go, parked it back in the fencerow between the trees to forget about for awhile, there was also a lot of concrete ornamental block, filled my 10 cu ft yard cart. went to move it and the lawn deere just spun the tires. Dont know what it weighs, 15pnd/ block- 30 of ‘em. So- drove the F150 to the treeline & stacked the tires, then went back & transferred all the concrete to the truck, back to the treeline & stacked the block there. squatted the truck pretty good, its a wonder I didn’t break the yard cart. Put tires on the box trailer (thats been a storage shed for the past 5 years) and moved it beside the garage with the tractor, weed-eated all the stuff thats been growing in the gravel, would like to try the box trailer behind the truck but not today. feel spent, need to start figuring what I need for the base of this shed.
 
Busy day, got a few parts in yesterday for the F150, tried the egr bypass (I know- couldn’t break the tube nut loose so just slid the plate & gasket in, would at least see if it made any difference) That did nothing, moved on to the map sensor and YES! that was it. Ran it up the road & back, runs like it should, idles fine. Not going to return any of the other things I had ordered, may need them later. Went to a few yard sales, did the weekly grocery trip. Started on getting ready for the shed I got 2 weeks ago. First where its going has a lot of junk, but the yard trailer I planned to use for that is full of tires-over 20. mostly ranger wheels. Offloaded & took pictures so I can put them up for sale then loaded them in to the back of the truck, took my now empty yard flatbed & loaded up all the stuff from the gravel area where the shed will go, parked it back in the fencerow between the trees to forget about for awhile, there was also a lot of concrete ornamental block, filled my 10 cu ft yard cart. went to move it and the lawn deere just spun the tires. Dont know what it weighs, 15pnd/ block- 30 of ‘em. So- drove the F150 to the treeline & stacked the tires, then went back & transferred all the concrete to the truck, back to the treeline & stacked the block there. squatted the truck pretty good, its a wonder I didn’t break the yard cart. Put tires on the box trailer (thats been a storage shed for the past 5 years) and moved it beside the garage with the tractor, weed-eated all the stuff thats been growing in the gravel, would like to try the box trailer behind the truck but not today. feel spent, need to start figuring what I need for the base of this shed.
Just reading that made me tired...
 
Well fudge…

Worked on unloading the Choptop and cleaning up the brackets for the radius arms for the F-150. Dug out what I had for bushings to try and piece something together. Cleaned a bunch of rust off things under the truck, used a face shield and was trying to be careful and I got a hunk of rust in my eye. It’s out now but it scratched the sh!1 out of my eye. So yeah, nothing is actually done, truck is still broken and I get to go to the eye doctor tomorrow at 8am. Yay me.

Aaaatrrrggghhhh!!!

What did YOU do today?
 
Busy day, got a few parts in yesterday for the F150, tried the egr bypass (I know- couldn’t break the tube nut loose so just slid the plate & gasket in, would at least see if it made any difference) That did nothing, moved on to the map sensor and YES! that was it. Ran it up the road & back, runs like it should, idles fine. Not going to return any of the other things I had ordered, may need them later. Went to a few yard sales, did the weekly grocery trip. Started on getting ready for the shed I got 2 weeks ago. First where its going has a lot of junk, but the yard trailer I planned to use for that is full of tires-over 20. mostly ranger wheels. Offloaded & took pictures so I can put them up for sale then loaded them in to the back of the truck, took my now empty yard flatbed & loaded up all the stuff from the gravel area where the shed will go, parked it back in the fencerow between the trees to forget about for awhile, there was also a lot of concrete ornamental block, filled my 10 cu ft yard cart. went to move it and the lawn deere just spun the tires. Dont know what it weighs, 15pnd/ block- 30 of ‘em. So- drove the F150 to the treeline & stacked the tires, then went back & transferred all the concrete to the truck, back to the treeline & stacked the block there. squatted the truck pretty good, its a wonder I didn’t break the yard cart. Put tires on the box trailer (thats been a storage shed for the past 5 years) and moved it beside the garage with the tractor, weed-eated all the stuff thats been growing in the gravel, would like to try the box trailer behind the truck but not today. feel spent, need to start figuring what I need for the base of this shed.

That’s all?
 
Got the shipping confirmation email for my head.

Yaaaaaasssssssssssss!!
 
Bought an exercise bike. I've never had a recumbent bike before. But have wanted one for decades. There IS learning curve. It's not as easy as the one at my cardiac rehab class. This one falls over.View attachment 142027View attachment 142028
Thats a great starter recumbent. Its an aluminum one or a steel frame? Looks like steel, which is perfect to learn on and absorbs shock really well.

If your butt starts going numb on mid to long rides, lesn the seat back a little farther back. Its to upright if you start having that issur
 

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