August 18, 2024
I changed out the sway bar links on the Ford Explorer Sport Track. It was quite easy to do. The rubber bushings on one of them were all worn out so it was making a “clunk” sound every time I went over a bump – and I go over alot of bumps on the dirt/gravel roads in the subdivision.
I jacked up the truck and removed the wheel to access the link. It is basically a long bolt that attaches the sway bar to the “A” shaped bracket that holds the wheel mechanism. There are rubber bushings above and below the sway bar and then bushings above and below the “A” bracket – with a metal tube or sleeve that goes over the rod and holds the bushings in place. I could have just replaced the bushings, but they came with a new bolt, so, why not. I did re-use the old tube/sleeves as the new ones were 1/2″ longer for some reason.
In the afternoon, i planted onions, radishes, beets and lettuce in the tire gardens. One of the raised wooden planters still has carrots and onions growing in it. They are thin and look to be struggling for lack of water, but they are still there. I gave them a good dose of water after adding some turnip seeds along one side of the planter
Then I planted two “tomato rocket” ( a coil of material with fertilizer and seeds embedded in it) coils in the other raised wooden planter – my “tomato” planter!
I took pictures of all this using my phone. I download the photos to a thumb drive so I can attach them here later. When I create these postings, I use the pictures to help me remember what I did each day. Well, I cannot find the thumb drive that I downloaded pictures for August and half of September. I had it on October 7th when I was packing up to leave Hawaii, but I cannot find it now. Perhaps I need to not wait so long inthe future, to create these posts. At this point I will have to pick up with the pictures that are still on my phone and hope to be able to find the thumbdrive later.
TTFN
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