Day 2937

 I woke up a little after 8, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  It was a little cold, but the first chore was to take out the recycle and the garbage.  Only the way back I stopped to pick up the radiator cap that I'd made and painted yesterday.

When I put the cap on the Power Wagon it didn't quit look right.  I went back to the garage and used the Dremel to grind down the "cap" that had been molded into the body.  When I was done the cap I'd made fit and looked a lot better.  I'm happy with the result.  I put the rear view mirrors on the body and it's officially complete, at least until the additional parts show up. The truck looks really nice.

I'd planned on going to see the new Godzilla movie at the IMAX in Belterra, but Ellen's asshole was giving her trouble.  I decided to play with the SCX24 instead.  I got the obstacles I'm mad last summer out of the garage.  When I turned on the SCX24 it wouldn't work.

After messing around with it some I determined that the back end was locked up.  I removed a tire and the steering linkage so that I could remove the diff cover.  It was definitely locked up, but I couldn't see why.  I ended up removing the gears and reinstalling them.  That freed things up.  I carefully tested each part of the reassembly to make sure the rear end still worked.  After that the rig worked really well.  I'll probably never know what went wrong.

The funny thing is I'll be doing exactly the same thing tomorrow when I install the new diff covers and extensions.  

I started running the rig on the obstacles.  It runs really well.  In fact most of the obstacles are too easy for it.  I couldn't do the bridge though because the two ends kept sliding together.  I went out to the garage to fabricate a brace.  I got about halfway through that before Ellen came out to say that it was time to go to the Hog Heaven Christmas party.

We had fun at the party.  There was lots of pizza, beer, and sweets.  I managed to have fun talking to several people even though I didn't know any one.  It's an open air place and it was in the low 50's, so we left a little early.

It was videos until bed time when we got back.