wizkid00104
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- Oct 15, 2007
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- Location
- West Newton/Penn Hills, PA
- Vehicle Year
- 1994/2002
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 2.3L/5.4L
- Transmission
- Manual
Ranger has been running good. Going to be replacing front wheel bearings after the new year. I am getting a lot of noise and I believe they are the culprit.
In other news, tree fell on the house Christmas Eve. Came home from Christmas dinner to this...
Here is a shot from the roof:
All I could think of was Clark Griswald trimming the tree in his front yard and telling his neighbor where to put it....
With a $1000 deductible on the house, I needed to get creative. That is good wedding and/or truck part money. With the help of my buddy's family, we got the tree off the house and cut up. Chained my quad to a tree and used the winch to pull the tree off. I was amazed the 2500 lb winch could pull that off....
In the process of winch the tree off, we smashed the downspout, bent the hell out of the last 4 ft of gutter, and chipped off some small pieces of shingle. The insurance adjuster gave me the name of a guy to call for an estimate. He wanted $850 to fix the above. NOPE.
Saturday, my dad came down and with his and my neighbors help, we patched the roof with sealer until the summer when the shingles are more flexible and I can replace the damaged ones. Then we cut the damaged gutter off and spliced in a new piece with parts from Lowes. Much thinner aluminum, but they matched up pretty well. Just took some patience to blend them together. They we installed a new vinyl downspout. This all took about 5 hours (because we work slow together) and cast just over $100. I am pleased with the results:
Hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year!
In other news, tree fell on the house Christmas Eve. Came home from Christmas dinner to this...
Here is a shot from the roof:
All I could think of was Clark Griswald trimming the tree in his front yard and telling his neighbor where to put it....
With a $1000 deductible on the house, I needed to get creative. That is good wedding and/or truck part money. With the help of my buddy's family, we got the tree off the house and cut up. Chained my quad to a tree and used the winch to pull the tree off. I was amazed the 2500 lb winch could pull that off....
In the process of winch the tree off, we smashed the downspout, bent the hell out of the last 4 ft of gutter, and chipped off some small pieces of shingle. The insurance adjuster gave me the name of a guy to call for an estimate. He wanted $850 to fix the above. NOPE.
Saturday, my dad came down and with his and my neighbors help, we patched the roof with sealer until the summer when the shingles are more flexible and I can replace the damaged ones. Then we cut the damaged gutter off and spliced in a new piece with parts from Lowes. Much thinner aluminum, but they matched up pretty well. Just took some patience to blend them together. They we installed a new vinyl downspout. This all took about 5 hours (because we work slow together) and cast just over $100. I am pleased with the results:
Hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year!