Day 3748

 I woke up at 8, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  Then I took the new bird feeder pole outside and installed it.  I took the old one to the garage and salvaged what I could from it.  It was still a little cold, so I went back inside the house and completed the work on the Bronco.

I opened up the transmission and replaced the bushings with bearings.  It wasn't as hard as it could have been.  Then I replaced the bottom plate with a brass one.  That was just a lot of screws.  Putting the transmission back in was OK once I got the drive shafts set up.  I'd misread the exploded diagram.  Connecting the shift servo was a long, frustrating, task. 

I spent the rest of the time until lunch surfing and shopping.  I didn't buy anything.  I checked out the FCX24 gears that I'd gotten yesterday.  They were wrong.  The ad said they were one thing and they were really another.  I got on Amazon and set up a return.  That gave me something to do after lunch.

We took the dog and did errands.  We picked up a present for Ellen at the post office.  Then I took the gears to Whole Paycheck.  The next stop was Wally World where I bought 3 containers of DEF.  According to Zeihan it's going to become scarce (Trump's fault).  Then we took Abby to Circle C.  She had a great time running even thought it was a little hot.

Another part for the Bronco was in the mailbox.  I installed it when I got home.  It turns out that it needed the diff gears installed differently than I had done it (I might have fouled up reassembling them).  I ended up having to remove all the axles and switch both differentials.  It's now ready for me to fire up and program.  I hope all my changes work.

I continued the morning shopping and bought shocks and the correct gears for the FCX24.  Then I watched videos until dinner.

After dinner I took Abby for a walk around the property.  I walked a total of 11,000 steps today.  Yesterday it was 13,000.  I actually enjoyed walking in the evening.

I went back inside and did some more video watching until it was time to go to bed.