Reply to "Steering Wheel @ 1:00 O'Clock"

GP, you know more about the Canadian Mounties and Deeb just confirmed they all go by Dudley. Down in the lower latitudes we call them Deputies or Officers, but way up there. Good afternoon Deputy Smith, you haven't caught the burglars in my neighborhood yet have you? That's what I say. Deeb says, Good evening Dudley Smith, you remembered to change your trusted steed's diaper pouch prior to this evening's shift, didn't you?

Yeah, sometimes the truth is boring. I was investigating gettin my high beams working a year ago and got the wheel back on just a tooth or two off center. Then I got started on another project and forgot about it. Then when driving it a few times, I made a note to fix it but never got around to it, with lots of road tests to see if the latest project was correctly completed. Then after 20 hours in the Pantera, to and from Vegas, the 1:00 O'clock postion of the steering wheel became a little more annoying to me, but I forgot what caused it, so I was wondering myself, thinking maybe it's the new 17" rims caused it, then Coz said how to fix it and it refreshed my memory. Boring, but better than spanking a curb.

Regarding the high beams on the turn signal switch inside the steering column, the wire's still loose, but functions to activate the high or low beams when the wire is moved with my fingers, in a back and forth motion. Now I have a tip from a guy I was talking to in the pits in Vegas. He said the wiring harness connectors have screws to anchor the wires into it, which are friction fit into the connectors with the small screws. So, when I get off the couch and do the steering wheel reposition job, I have to crawl under the dash with my flashlight and tiny jeweler's screw driver and tighten the right screw to fix the loose connection. I was going to figure it out by looking at the wiring diagram and finding the loose wire and screw by color. Me, I'm just going to tighten all the screws on the connectors and hope to get it tight like that. Why fish with a worm and hook? Just drag the stream with a net to get a fish, or all the fish, so to speak. Boring stuff, not like helicopters and a trial right there with all the Government's witnesses converging with their radar detectors and lasers locked in with 171 mph on the read-outs, to get the fact pattern sorted out, and with the local Magistrate or Judge in the helicopter or on a horse, to do the trial and assign the points right then and there.

Much more dramatic things are happening up there where Deeb's favorite turn is located. Next week, I guess it's 5,975 rpm's to see if the tries will hold with 1/2 psig less in all the tires in that now famous turn. What a life. Me, I'm always making it more perfect with a little more tweaking and fine tuning. Keeps my driving record free of points, but I'd like to try that turn at about 5,100 rpm to begin with.... Me and Deeb, side by side into that turn, then when the emergency equipment starts strobing on those Dudley vehicles, we go different directions... see what happens. Sounds like fun. Maybe we can try and convince them to get two helicopters for 26 points, 13 each.