Tire Carrier Completed & New YouTube Video

June 29 2009 by Darrin.

Friday night, Anna and I returned from Casper with the powder-coated parts.  I had a 25%-off coupon, but I’m thinking they must have tacked 50% onto the bill first.  The cost was beyond belief.  They must have been celebrating the passage of the new cap and trade bill in the House.

What a bunch of morons in DC.  The economy is in shambles (says Buffett, and he’s right) and we’re going to limit and punish industrialization by starting the balling rolling on a bill most of them never read.  Sure.  That’ll help.  I mean, “we have to do something”, right? That’s what they all say. If I behaved like the US gov’t, the next time I had a headache I’d take a hatchet and cut my freakin’ arm off.  My headache would likely go away for a bit, but only because my brain was distracted by the blood shooting out of my shoulder.   One more time…  Morons.  Narcissistic fools, and we’re all going to pay for it with a massive loss of freedom and income.  Can the Senate shoot it down?

An-eee-way,  I’m almost ready to consider painting stuff myself again.  But paint ain’t powder, and I can’t immerse the stuff in an acid bath either.  The powder DOES look good, there’s no question.  Here’s the tire lift mechanism without the tire carriage…

And the assembly completed with spares ready to go…

Also, the fenders and mudflaps are now installed for good too, so mud and cow-pies are of no more concern…

Wanna see how the tire carrier works?  Here’s a demonstration video I just posted to YouTube…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5H5kMUqfW8

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