Tweaker.

It had to be a Tweaker.

After work I went out and started working on the little John Deere riding lawnmower my buddy gave me last week.

I had already started in on it two nights ago trying to get the seized up steering to start turning.

An hour and a half, two cans of WD-40, some judicius smacking with a ball peen hammer and some persistence later, I does work again, kinda.

There are these things that maybe you have heard of called Grease Zerks?

Yeah, whoever had this thing before my buddy never had.

I got one King Pin to take some, the other one not so much but basically the whole mechanism was rusted up.

I got that broke free though.

So today I started in on the what I had already seen with some messed up battery cables and such.

I knew it was going to be a mess but I wasn’t prepared for what I ran across in the end.

Now let me tell you up front here, none of this is my buddy’s doing. I can absolutely, 100% guarantee that.

His neighbor gave the thing to him when he was moving away, my buddy just parked it and sat on it. He told me up front the thing had issues but he and I both know that I have some small talent for repairing things.

This one however, is one for the story books.

For starters, someone patched in A COUPLE OF FEET OF WELDING CABLE onto the original, dinky,12 inch long battery cables.

I found where they joined up wrapped in two full rolls of electrical tape and started cutting.

When I finally got the first one exposed to light my jaw dropped open.

What, In The Actual…..?

Behold! The Tweaker Special!

Then I got the other one opened up.

Holee What In The Hell Was The Thought Process Here Kind Of Crap Is This?!

You can’t go spend ten freaking dollars on a new pair of battery cables?

By the time whoever did this got done messing around here you could have WALKED to a parts house and back.

Sweet Mother Of God what a disaster.

So I took all that garbage out of there, ran up to the parts house, took that with me to show them because I know that there was no way that I could describe this disaster to them and I also knew they wouldn’t be able to comprehend just how bad it was without having eyes on.

Grabbed a new battery, they didn’t have the correct cables of course, bought a bunch of crap to cut down and crimp new ends on, got some fuel line and a filter and came home and put the damn thing back together.

There are still many wiring issues to deal with and I had to jump the solenoid but I did get the engine to spin over.

I have no idea if there is any spark or compression yet.

I know it isn’t getting any gas because I have the tank off.

But it did spin so At Least I know it isn’t seized.

One nightmare at a time thankyouverymuch.

Stay tuned, this promises to get quite entertaining.

With the price of gasoline these days, I figure my truck will hold $150 worth with a full 30 gallon tank.

There isn’t much I can do about the thieving bastards selling the stuff but maybe spending $15 on a locking gas cap might at least slow down any thieving bastards wanting to siphon my tank.

Not much I can do though if they get brutal and just punch a hole in it.