Well it has been an entertaining few days, get a call from my wife that I needed to do some eradication in our mud room, this is what greeted me when I made it home:
He was a bit scared but got him outside unharmed, not sure how he got in but suspect it was either through the garage or front door, we leave them open on occasion depending on weather or if I'm working in and around the garage.
As mentioned in my previous post I replaced the alternator on The Lemon:
Easy enough, but had forgotten to throw the battery charger on it so it didn't want to start, tried jump starting with no success, I was leaving town so just put a Battery Tender on and took off. I tried to start it Sunday morning before another little trip and it was slow cranking, suspected a bad cell caused by draining it too deep so swapped in another battery from another car and it was still slow cranking. I'll throw in a spare starter this week and see if that is the cause, otherwise I'll have to dig deeper into it.
Saturday I'd volunteered to help out a mini bike race called the Lime 100, the course was about 1.3 miles (2km) long, 100 minutes in duration and 3 total classes. So for 6 hours I worked a corner radioing back if trouble or riders that may need a bit of help. This gentlemen had some tough luck, way out in first place and his bike started running sluggish, the belt on his torque converter had worn and rolled upside down:
He was able to repair it back at the pits but a few laps later the forks broke loose from the head tube, ratchet strapped it back together and slowly finished the race. Another guy had an engine failure a few feet in front of me:
I was able to find the parts he lost and return them to him after the race:
Tough to tell, but that is part of a rod bearing, tough day for sure.
Sunday I went to Hallett raceway in Jennings, Ok. I took the Viper down to get some seat time and was hoping to run a couple parade laps, a couple other Oklahoma Vipers were in group 5 and looked like they had a blast:
I think I found my favorite personalized plate:
Sadly I ran out of time before my group so no track time for me. After getting home I met up with fellow GJ member
@InsaneEd, he heard about the spare tire balancer I had and wanted first shot at it, picked it up and had a good chat:
That is all for now, it was a very fun weekend, capped it off by taking a walk with the girls and then doing math homework with oldest daughter.
JB