So I only got the one head off before I remembered about checking the F-150 which lead to as thorough of a search as could be mustered for the wheel lock key that is MIA. There has traditionally been three places I keep it. I am currently rather satisfied that it exists in none of those places at the moment. I used it recently to do a wheel bearing up at my buddies garage and I remember at some point after that seeing it, picking it up, and saying it was going to get put in a safe, secure place. Total blank after that. That safe and secure place should have been one of the three places that it gets kept. I really don’t want to destroy the lug nut. Tried just about everything I could think of to get it off without destroying it and without the key to no avail. Really regretting not getting a spare key for the lugs now.
Brakes for the rear of mom’s SUV we’re supposed to come today and I figured I’d grease the fronts before they could become a problem, well, the inside pad on the one front had apparently already become a problem so now it needs front brakes too. The rears never showed today.
Dads Ranger needs new front wheel bearings, and you may have guessed, but they are somewhere in transit too.
My red Ranger is still waiting for the transmission parts, which you guessed it, are somewhere in transit.
So at the moment, I have zero working vehicles and my parents aren’t much better off. Unless I have an epiphany and find the key for the wheel locks by tomorrow, I’m thinking my next best course of action may be to put a new trans filter in the red Ranger and fresh fluid just so I have something driveable and deal with the valve body in the trans whenever I eventually get the parts. Not sure I have much other options at this point. Going to really hate having to drop the transmission pan twice.