My wagon broked!

Got it back today. Found a good independent shop in the process, that I'll be taking all my vehicles to in the future.

And what's this 'young man' stuff? Here's what was new the year I was born....

 

Barry has a few months on ya. But man, you're almost as old as I am. Kids, now-a-days.

 

uhh....anyone have a pic of a covered wagon..........?

KK....whether you like bone crushers or not...get to a doc and find out what's up. I was concerned about your car but I am much more concerned about you. Get it checked out!

 

I'll tell how good mine was, he taught me to self-adjust myself. Simple cat stretches. Watch a cat a few times, you'll get the idea. Some sit ups, and waist bends, and dangle your arms down and shake them from the shoulders, then crank your neck - SLOWLY, with the chin up, from side to side. You'll hear the clicks at the axis (right below the ears).

I made the mistake of jumping off the back of my trailer without bending my knees once, about 8 years ago, and I 'knew' that I'd thrown something out of whack. Took me 6 months to work it out, but it could have been worse.

 

Yup. Got an appointment for Monday........

 

Fox is of course right, do the right thing and get it checked out. My aversion should not cause you to not do the right thing and I apologize if I left the impression that you shouldn't do this :sorry:. Me bad as my neighbors kidlet would say.

And yes, you are younger than I am, not by a lot but enough that I could buy beer before you could , collect pension earlier, buy a car and DRIVE it earlier..................

 

I wasn't advocating chiropractic, Saf. I meant for KK to go to any doc of his choice. No way I'm getting into a pissing match over chiropractic or not chiropractic. I have my feelings about the profession but have found that they are usually best left unsaid. Seems to be a volatile subject for some reason.

 

That's me. I'm admittedly a bit touchy on the subject. I've got family members who swear by them, and I've heard about some good results. Just not for me.......

 

I sure didn't want to come across wrong. Oops . And Fox, didn't mean to imply or read anything into your statement, your advice is always rock solid . KK, glad you are going to get checked out We've got a friend who very recently was, are you ready for this, putting on his underwear and felt a pop in his back. Had he gone to get it checked, once he was dressed of course, they'd of given him some pills to relax the nerves and his body would have sorted itself out over the next couple of days. He waited the couple of days, could barely move, did the walk-in clinic thingy, and it was some time before he got over it, actually, is still having twinges. Of course our concern has been...............is he wearing underwear or not? Do we sit beside him or down the table from him? He didn't know quite what to say when that came up at car club breakfast

I have a buddy who also got taught how to put his neck back in and the first time he did it I almost passed out when he did it. All of a sudden he twists his head and lifts and then you could kinda see it pop into place and visions of the exorcist came immediately to mind only instead of the head turner getting sick it was the watch'er. To this day I can't watch him do it and to him it is just a normal thing. If he doesn't do it he actually gets ill from the pain.

So, back to the wheel bearing. How old was it? Any idea why it went away? Did you only do one side? If it's a high mileage rear end would it make sense to do the other one as well just in case given they were potentially put in at the same time and thus have the same amount of wear? Just wondering.........

 

Maybe KK should have just quickly lifted and twisted it! Might have fixed that bearing right up.

 

I might have gotten sick though

 

LoL @ Mike.

Was this your family's first wagon?

 

I see it was a "high horsepower" unit too. And an automatic. Had some exhaust leaks though.............but how many convertible wagons does one see.

 

There ya GO! My first wagon. A neck snapping 8 full horsepower that blew away the measley 2, 4 and 6 hp wagons! I was even building horsepower at a very young age!

 

Steve-E-D, that's an 8-wheeler with 32 on the floor!

Anyway, I checked the 'properties' of the picture (posted in June 2009 on that site, and got into the image directory. More covered wagon pics, and all kinds of historic photos. Thanks.
http://www.thehistorybluff.com/wp-content/uploads/