Waggy is HOME--PICS!!!!!

[drlocke]

And before any of you I will post pics as soon as I can take 'em; I had to work until well after dark this day once having taken delivery of my chariot.

Just to refresh the more volatile memory out there, or the completely uniformed for that matter, I had assessed a number of tumors--most of them benign, thank God--on my old Wag, and decided that--since my OR was at the time nearly hip deep in whiteslop--decided that these aging bones aren't up to such DIY surgery in such conditions... (Get that cat outta here!)

So I donned the "soup and fish"--so to speak--and hired the work out to a local garage that specialises mostly in heavy truck and equipment repair, along with fabrication of anything one needs done in mild steel and other stock.... Lotsa log pickers, skidders, backhoes, bucket loaders, dump trucks, etc around there--in fact just about every type of commercial gear one can find at times. The proprietor--being a friend, and this being an old enough ride to make it desirable to work on over one of today's rigs--"grumpily" accepted the job on a pissant "roller-skate" vehicle.

While I supervised on occasion, these guys reconstructed the pelvic regions of the Wag, putting in heavier leaf packs on the rear axle along with gas shocks. They also read and addressed the rest of the grievances on my list, such as driveshaft flange bolts that keep working loose, pitman arm nut that keeps working loose, "moody" brakes (which required new everything on the rear axle....etc....

First time in a long while I have spent money, and have felt really good about it.

The car operates and handles in a much improved manner, and I now have a brake pedal that responds within the first inch and a half rather than the before 3 inches it seemed to travel before engagement was felt. And the steering wheel play is reduced to an inch, instead of the 5 or so inches that I suffered with before.

Yeah, I'm a definite "happy camper" here.....

Again I'll show pics of the posture of the car when I get a chance. It now no longer has the "ol' fogey '60s Falcon/Comet rearend squat that it used to have. It now seems that its posture suggests that I may need to turn my attentions to the front springs....

Which is OK. I'll either do it myself here during warm weather.....or I'll become the "gentleman farmer" once again and hire it out to this place again. We'll see.....

Yeh! I'm gettin' old and lazy.....

I'll post pics tomorrow--or the next day; tomorrow promises to be very busy indeed......