Day 3673

 I woke up at 7:30, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  It was in the low 40's, so I just went back to working on the Slash.

I didn't have much to do, just attach the front end and attach the servo saver to the servo.  That showed the need to adjust one of the steering arms, so I did that.

By then it was warm enough to take Abby to Circle C.  It was also cool enough that she went full out.  There wasn't a wind like yesterday, so we were pretty comfortable.  Abby got a little extra running in because Ellen needed to go to the can when we got back to the car.  The extra running caused her to be pretty quiet in the evening.

We stopped at HEB on the way home for bread, bananas, etc.  It was packed.

We has lunch when we got home then I went back to the Slash.  That's when the trouble started.  The only thing that I had left to do was the sway bars.  That's when I discovered that I'd installed the front shocks wrong.  That would have been simple except that the shocks didn't fit in the place they needed to go.  I trotted out to the garage and spent the next 1.5 hours using a Dremel to remove material from the front arms.  It sucked.

After that I got the front bar on fairly easily.  The rear was harder.  It was difficult to install the brace on the assembled car.  Also the bar barely fits because the brushless gear case is different than the standard one.  I'm not sure that it will be effective at all.  At this point I don't care.

Ellen fixed strawberry waffles for dinner.  It was great.  After dinner I went back to the Slash and finished the rear sway bar. I was tired and should have stopped there.  I didn't.  I put the body mounts on the body.  That wasn't difficult.

The final task was to put roof skids on the body.  That's when I discovered that Ellen hadn't aligned the roof stripe correctly.  I decided to center the skids on the roof.  It looks a little goofy, but it's functional.  It doesn't really matter.  Parts of the paint job are a complete disaster.  Elle just isn't careful enough with the masking. 

I wasn't done with the Slash until after 9.  I still have to do the wiring, programming, and cleanup.  I hope that it goes better than today's work did.