Was finishin up the weeks grass cuttin, on Thursday, noticed an abundance of depth, on the brake pedal, on the work truck. Drove it over to my mechanic's, fer a quick looksee. We came to the conclusion, that the MC is bad. A $200 or less part, with a half a day or so, labor. (its a 1999 isuzu NPR cabover), so the steering column, and the dash gotta come out. Might as well say there's another grand gone...
Well, gotta go to plan B, as I gots lawns to mow, on Monday! So, rather than doing my usual Saturday recreation, of pissing off auctioneers and bidders, I gotsa work on plan B, today...
So today I started assembling the plan B truck and trailer. Put a reese hitch, offa the old 94 mazda B2300 pickemup, onto the 06 ranger, not quite an exact fit, but with the $2/3 gallon bucket(auction find) of 1/2" flat washers, and the hand held battery powered grinder, and 2 hours of labor, that is accomplished!
Grass was dry, by then, so mowed fer 3-1/2 hrs, here...
Now alls I gots to do is to drill out a new hole in a reese hitch end, that I already have, figger out which ball the plan B trailer takes, cut off a couple fender supports, that are in the way, to let the 5' mower clear the fenders, Oh and change out a flat tire, and see if I can find a spare fer it, I might have plan B accomplished by Monday. If all goes well I won't need to use plan B, cause if I get it ready, then maybe the other truck'll be fixed afore I need to use this one.
Its just that you have to go through this dance, yo make sure plan A will work!