Well on the tailgate I thought about that, Spreading. But its not just the top edge of the tub, its all the way down. Need to trim off I would say an inch or two. Yeah we can hack it up. not like any thing else on the truck is nice and new. Well except for the carb.
On the Brats. No cabelas. Got the kitchen aid a while back for the wife. Then bought the meat grinder attachment and sausage stuffer from some kitchen place. Like 60 bucks or something.
Got a hank of casings. (Hank is about enough for 25 pounds) for 4 bucks at the butcher. These were Collagen or Synthetic. Pretty nice stuff actually.
Got the meat from Meijer. Two shoulders were 14 bucks. the veal was 12 bucks. So all total 30 bucks or so. for 10 pounds of brats. I had the spices already.
I grilled 4 of them last night. Wow. Pretty good. Not too much fat at all, Just enough to cook off when grilling. Took about 2 hours start to finish. I will do up some chedder brats and some other stuff in a week or so.
On the Fan motor, I am pretty sure its the resistor thats had it. But hey I will take one speed. This goes right along with my plan to have nothing on the truck actually work properly like it should.