Alex the Great (dunkirkalex) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2019-03-10 04:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | alex, nora valkyrie |
WHO: Nora and Alex
WHAT: Fixing up the truck
WHERE: The parking lot of Alex's complex
WHEN: Today
RATING: Lowish
By the time Alex got around to doing anything with his new-to-him truck that he'd bought off of York, it was Sunday morning. Mornings were a good time to do work like this, before the sun got too high. The thing about living in the desert was, until then, it was usually a little cold, so Alex had on a pair of jeans instead of the shorts he usually lounged in.
He'd invited the girl, Nora, over to observe as she called it. Once upon a time, someone helped Alex learn to work on vehicles and it was still one of his favorite things to do. If he had the time these days, he might try to make a little extra money off of it. For now, however, he only had the time (and the patience) to work on his own truck.
Outside in the small parking lot where he lived, Alex brought his tools down to lay in the bed of the truck. He already knew what he needed and, annoyingly, it was going to involve having to pull himself underneath the truck to fix it. In his kit, there were several servo rods, but that would come later. First, Alex pulled a folded up blanket and laid it over the bed liner that was already there to protect the truck bed. Next, he pulled his jack system out for the first step. With the jack and a plastic bucket in hand, he went to the truck's front and slid the jack into place and jacked the truck's front up enough to slide the bucket where he needed it. Then he knelt down and hooked the transmission cooling line to two rubber draining hoses that fed into the bucket. After that, Alex went to the driver's side and turned on the truck to allow the transmission fluid to drain.