What have you done to your wagon lately? (Let's keep the thread going!)

Mer Mutts

 

Hahahahahahahaha!!!!

I liked the older Professor Burke one where the guy brodies the K-car wagon into someone's front yard, so the Professor pulls the keys from the ignition and hucks them as far as he can. Couldn't find the video, though....

 

Is it a Farmers Ins. ad too?

 

Yeah. The wagon driver comes skidding 180* into the yard before stopping.

 

Steering
box
rebuild!

 

Took the rear wheels off for inspection of the drum brakes. Didn't see anything unusual so put them back and took the fronts off, though I'd grease while I did it. I have a Lincoln gun of some kind and prior to using it knew little about grease guns. What the hell happened? I put everything in right and then the plunger (or whatever you call it on the T handle) BYPASSES the grease, making it squirt grease out the HANDLE end. Great for making a messy self portrait. It's not like I bought it used, I only used it on one car beforehand and yet paid $40/$50 for this thing.

 

Got her all snug in the garage for winter hibernation.

 

Here it is for 'ya........................

 

Got the Mercedes wrapped up, if the weather is decent this weekend I'll check the valve lash and pull the turbo so I can do a rebuild on it over the winter.
Also got the winter tires on the Magnum and rust checked so it can pull winter beater duty.

 

Damn, that was a skid to remember, and backward too.... Thank you, Krash!

 

Greased the front end. However, why wasn't old grease coming out of the boots (if that's what they're called) that are the highest ones behind the front wheels? After that I adjusted the rear brakes.

 

Did the boots expand? I've seen some just hold everything without expelling any old grease.

 

Bought this for the wheels and tires. Might look good on my wagon. Hoping to get them switched this week

 

I was gonna say, "Wait a minute, that's not a wagon...doesn't have a 5x5 bolt pattern." Then I remembered ALL Cadillacs from this gen had the 5x5.

 

Excellent wheels! Are you going to just clean them, or give them a shot of the 'new' color paint I just saw recently?