Fred's Minnesota Blog: December 2006

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Astro Steering Column Adventure.

As some of you are aware, the steering column on the Astro has gotten 'loose' of late. That is it moves around in about a 6 or 8 inch circle, like a joy stick. A couple of weeks ago the section with the turn signal switch and the ignition switch started spinning on the column along with the steering wheel and I could feel the wires inside jamming up. I saw this as a bad thing and started taking it apart. My friend, Pete, lent me his pullers (which I proceeded to break) to get the wheel off and the turn signal switch removed.

There are two screws inside the steering column that hold the upper housing to the lower housing. these screws had worked loose and the housings had come apart. Pete suggested I lock-tite them but to get the screws out required taking the whole top part of the column apart so I just tightened them up as much as I could.

If they loosen up again, I will address the issue at that time. Astro all back together ready to 'haul the freight'.

# posted by Fred @ 3:03 PM 2 comments

Friday, December 29, 2006

Christmas Update 2006

House all decorated and prepared.

Presents all laid out with care.

Christmas dinner on the table.

Christmas night and the family picture.

Presents from Friends and Family.

Janice sent me the beer, Corrine and Bob the laser level and tape measure, Martha the blogging book, and Phyllis the home made cookies. All very nice.

# posted by Fred @ 6:00 AM 1 comments

Friday, December 22, 2006

Snow in Minnesota.

We just got the first snow of the season in time for Christmas.

It looks like we will have a white Christmas after all.

I started to put the tree up in the living room by the computer this year but on second thought we moved it to the regular place in the family room. shopping is going well both for presents and for dinner.