Leaderboard

Finished this up Sunday and tested for leaks. I had a pretty substantial one from an elbow joint near the beginning of the expansion. I had to cut the next piece of pipe in two to get it out to fix the leak and then get put a union in it. Did that tonight, there are two more, pretty minor leaks still. One is about 14 ft up and I am not going to worry about it. The other is in the regulated line I use for painting and running my press. It had to be taken apart to do the original work, and has to come apart again because the regulator is no good. Anyway.... tonight I had PT for my be shoulder, which I of course agitated threading pipe Saturday, and I got a talking to about undoing all their work right before the ortho follow up.

Saturday the one boy helped me remove the mower deck and scrape the grass off. I gave the tractor a bath, including the insides of the wheels, which were kind of nasty. Got the plow and wheel weights on for winter duty. Yesterday I lubed the pivot points with oil and greased all the fittings. Checked the trans oil, looked good and not milky like the spring. I flushed and changed it back in march or April. Cleaned the foam prefilter and re oiled it, that was filthy. Checked air pressure in the tires, front left loses air only when it gets below freezing. Was a couple pounds down. Pumped that back up. Parked it in the garage and put the battery maintainer on it for a few days for some desulfating action. Still debating on whether I should change the oil and filter. Last time I did that was July of ‘24. The oil looks pretty clean with only 43 hours on it. Need to find a new seat compatible with the weird bolt pattern on this year 2000 machine.

I stopped by the hardware store after walking g the dog and picked up a couple different sized 'E' clip for the throttle linkage on Morgan, the 14-8. Next on the list was removing the dock from the lake. Was sunny and just over 60 today, so the trailer shirt and swimming trunks weren't too bad. Then, I waded out into the lake, which a water temperature around 50. Kind of like going swimming in Lake Superior. Wasn't too bad, once my legs and feet went numb. Fortunately, I didn't have to get much more than knee deep. I'm starting to ask my 70 year old self why I'm still doing this. Got some seat time on Morgan pulling the lawn sweep around to collect the drifts of leaves I blew out of the flower beds. That pretty much finished up the leaves that were in the yard. Then, I looked up: I've stil got a bunch more leaves coming - once the oak trees decide to let go of them. More seat time tomorrow (weather pirmitting) moving the dock sections from the shore up to the winter storage area.