I figured I would start off this blog with my latest adventure in the world of broken shit I need to fix. In the past 6 months I have had my Neutral Gear selector cable break as well as my parking brakes stop gripping the rotors. I fixed those, the one by crawling under my Jeep and using wire to reconnect a plastic (yes PLASTIC) clip that holds the transmission shifter cable in the correct position for it to engage the parking gear when going from D/N/R to Park. The other being my parking brakes not working. Filled with euphoria from this success I pulled off the tires and rotors, replaced my worn out parking brake pads and adjusted my parking breaks to firmly grip the rotors once more. Once again, my Jeep was safe to park in SF without worrying about it rolling away down the hills and taking out some poor lady trying to cross the street.
Flush with my new victories against the forces of mechanical breakdown, I basked in the joys of parking where ever I wanted to, and not worrying about coming back to find my Jeep rolled off somewhere without me. Flash forward a few weeks as I am parking at home. I calmly pull the parking break up as I always do, when TWANG!!!! The cable on the parking break lever snapped off. Thankfully the parking gear fix is still working (knock on wood) but now I have to take apart the center console in hopes of getting in there and being able to fix it easily. My fear is that it snapped somewhere in the middle or on the wheel end of things. That could complicate it a bit. As I am stewing about this and waiting for my buddy to return my toolbox (because we all know that things WILL break when you loan out your tool box), I continue to go about my daily routine as normal. Then two days ago, the seat makes a clunking sound and starts to wobble. Like three or four inches of travel wobble. I freak out because my roommate's Jeep has a broken seat and is almost impossible to drive, so now I'm worried that my seat broke in the same way. I do NOT want to buy a new seat. After I pull into work and get out, I start to poke around under there and notice that a large bolt/pin is about an inch out from where it looks like it should go. I start to push that in while wiggling the seat and sure enough it goes back in. After looking around a little more and trying to see how it all works, I give up and head inside. At least the seat is mostly stable again.
Skip to this morning... On my way into work it pops out again. I reach down while driving and find the bolt and push it back in while rocking the seat around a little. It goes back in and is stable once more. But now I have to find out why it is not staying put and how it all is supposed to fit together so that I can fix it permanently.
So there ya go. A small adventure into my life of fixing shit that breaks. I will post more stories here of my adventures in the past as well as any new ones that come up along this journey.
