I woke up at 8 and got up to do the pets stuff and have breakfast. After breakfast and some surfing I went to the garage to finish building the brackets for the Wrangler rock lights.
The brackets were just L shaped pieces of metal. Each leg had a hole, a small one for the screw into the lights and a bigger one for the screw into the bumper. In addition I had to locate small screws for the light attachments and slightly larger ones for the bumper attachment. I also had to trim the ends of the brackets. There were 8 brackets. That's 16 holes to measure and drill, 16 bracket ends to trim, and 16 screws of the right sizes to find.
It took me until a little after 1 to get the brackets made and attached to the lights (2 per light). Then I attached two of the lights to their fenders. After that I called a halt for lunch.
After lunch Ellen wanted to go to Hobby Lobby. We took Abby to the Beckett park first. She had a great time going through the woods. After that it was Hobby Lobby and then CVS for drugs before back home.
I went back to working on the Challenger. I attached the fenders and the other two lights. Unfortunately the wires on the lights are too short. I'm going to have to rewire them. I also attached the tires. That ends building the chassis. There's still a lot of work to build the body and do the wiring.
While I was doing that Ellen gave the dog a bath. I had to take some time out to help.
I also tried to put the brass hexes on the MT10. It turns out that I'm going to have to drill them out a little before they will fit correctly. That's going to take some time and careful work.
Ellen fixed chicken and rice for dinner. After dinner I put everything away and watched videos for the evening.
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