Muscle, Spider, Radiator

This weekend, we got some muscle to protect us. It'll take a while before all the muscles are ready, but it will help to keep things safer. Her name is Oreo and she is 100% lab:



It's Tina's dog of course...


Kyrk & Debra got a boy and Chris & Kelli (upstairs) got a girl. We'll have three around here to keep things on the up-and-up. I had a difficult time deciding whether or not we should get one, but it seems to have already helped to keep spirits up here (except the cat who will get used to having a dog around). She'll be good to have around the house because there are times when people we don't know come up to the house to ask for things.

Spider

This spider was on the wall this morning. It was about 4 inches toe-to-toe. Nothing like having at least four eyes to clean the crud out of every morning...



Boring car stuff...

I had to change the oil in the dump and the stakebed trucks today (stakebed is on the right in the garage area). They took 6.5 gallons of oil and they have a huge oil filter. I topped off the stakebed's radiator and found a hole at the top. The huge intercooler (on the left of the picture) was rubbing on the top of the huge radiator (on the right of the picture) and wore a hole in it. They were very heavy pulling them out of there. We're going to send it out to get it welded up. I also have to align the front wheels on that truck because the tires are getting really feathered on the outside showing that they are heavily toed-in. I'll rig something up so I can measure as close as I can to make it toed-in just a little bit. I did this on the Canter after replacing the ball joint and it seemed to work out good. I'll also be replacing a coolant filter (didn't know that these existed) and the fuel filter on the stakebed.


Mr. Storm - do you think that intercooler will fit in your Integra?