"Pighead!, this is SurfPig! I'm getting off work early today! How 'bout I come over and we put those front springs on? It's not raining"...I look at the sky, I look at the phone..."Who's calling?" I said...
But SurfPig pulls up in my (poor excuse for a) driveway, with all his spring stuff and some beer and we get to work. Then it starts raining. We've got jackstands aplenty and two sets of tools, we get things unbolted pretty quick. But that driver side springpin musta took us an hour to pull out. And we had every big tool we owned spread out under his Pig; 2 pickle forks, my 4 foot prybar, couple of sledges, chisels, everything but the 12 gauge. And we are really getting wet. It's cold, too.
Finally get the old spring off, new Dakar goes on pretty easy. Then we notice that the U-bolt flip-kit is not going to fit with the old bump-stop snubber there where the factory put it..."I'm all out of cut-off wheels" I sez to SurfPig "used the last one trimming fenders after the Pigrun" ..."Aargh!" sez SurfPig..."Let's just put it back together enough so I can drive home" "(Whew)" I say quietly to myself. I was really wet and really cold, SurfPig was wetter and colder. It being my garage, I was able to change outa my wet clothes once or twice. SurfPig was literally dripping wet. But we had one of his new Dakars on the driver side secure with stock U-bolts.
"Maybe this weekend we can finish it up..." he says brightly.
So, he's coming back over in a couple hours, it's not raining, yet, we just might get it done.
But SurfPig pulls up in my (poor excuse for a) driveway, with all his spring stuff and some beer and we get to work. Then it starts raining. We've got jackstands aplenty and two sets of tools, we get things unbolted pretty quick. But that driver side springpin musta took us an hour to pull out. And we had every big tool we owned spread out under his Pig; 2 pickle forks, my 4 foot prybar, couple of sledges, chisels, everything but the 12 gauge. And we are really getting wet. It's cold, too.
Finally get the old spring off, new Dakar goes on pretty easy. Then we notice that the U-bolt flip-kit is not going to fit with the old bump-stop snubber there where the factory put it..."I'm all out of cut-off wheels" I sez to SurfPig "used the last one trimming fenders after the Pigrun" ..."Aargh!" sez SurfPig..."Let's just put it back together enough so I can drive home" "(Whew)" I say quietly to myself. I was really wet and really cold, SurfPig was wetter and colder. It being my garage, I was able to change outa my wet clothes once or twice. SurfPig was literally dripping wet. But we had one of his new Dakars on the driver side secure with stock U-bolts.
"Maybe this weekend we can finish it up..." he says brightly.
So, he's coming back over in a couple hours, it's not raining, yet, we just might get it done.