Anybody got an impact driver and sockets I can borrow? The front struts on the Road Rhino are to the point where they allow the Rhino to act like the title even on a flat straight stretch of road. It’s getting real interesting anytime I go to drive. I think Saturday was the last day TMBWitW gets to drive it until it’s fixed.

I went and borrowed the spring compression tool from O’Reilly’s and was all prepared to work on it last night until I was finished. After a second trip to the parts store to buy a 17mm box/open end (it’s guaranteed – there will be one tool that I do not have for a project, and I will not know about it until the vehicle cannot be used for transportation) I started working on disconnecting the strut. Except it didn’t happen. I nearly rounded off one 17mm bolt, and the lower main bolt just would not budge. I got the top main bolt off by using a rubber mallet judiciously applied to the 21mm wrench (that I had to purchase when I did the brakes) but the lower would not budge.

All this, of course, after I walked out Sunday morning to see the right rear flat – with a sheet metal screw sticking out of it and not enough tread for the tire shop to be able to repair the tire. So – new shoes on the back axle. Got the right front patched while I was there, though – I had been tempting fate with a bolt riding in that tire fro some time, with only a slow leak.

New struts = north of $100. New tires = north of $300. So much for the tax refund.

So – anybody got an impact wrench and sockets I can borrow?

Chat ya later…

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