ROAD TRIP SURVIVAL - I used my knife to change a wheel bearing

[FortyTwoBlades]

You always make the best faces for the camera.

 

[Rick Marchand]

You always make the best faces for the camera.

I shoot for that slightly pissed off and in pain look.... with a little constipation thrown in for good measure.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

And just a dash of "where the hell AM I?" :thumbup:

 

[BMK]

Improvise, adapt and overcome. Pretty serious abuse with minimal damage - I am impressed. thanks for posting

 

[Brian Ayres]

Who needs a *Busse(prybar) ? Go Rick, Go! :thumbup:











*Disclaimer... Any remarks regarding Busse knives was satirical and not meant to bring any rabid fans out of the woodwork.....

 

[Melvin-Purvis]

Good stuff! Still, I have yet to meet a person with a pop-up camper that Didn't have a wheel bearing seize up - someone has got to make a quality no-fail replacement that should go on immediately after purchase of said camper...

 

[ERIK KNIVES]

Rick, you rule.

Did you pass though Thunder Bay? Ever heard of Sandstone Lake? If I wasn't here I would be there.

I think it is awesome that you beat the crap out of that knife with a bearing puller in the back of the pickup.

Also, here in the States, we prefer to drive 90 KMH or less with a trailer, you may want to pass it on..

I'm kidding of course, but not really. I crack myself up sometimes.

Erik

 

[Lorien]

that shit is impressive.

 

[unky_gumbi]

Now just how far east were you when all this happened? I am pretty sure that going from your area to the eastern part of Canada you would have been on the 401 and would have drove right past me here in Iroquois. There are all sorts of little town along the 401 that you don't know about or see from the highway in this part of Ontario, but we are close enough to hear the traffic from the highway.

We had a similar problem on a trip to the east coast when I was a kid coming out of Rivier De Loupe I think it was. The transmission and brakes in our old 70s Ford wagon died while we going up a big hill to get back on the #20. Luckily we had friends in a truck behind us and they went bumper to bumper on our trailer to stop us.

 

[Rick Marchand]

Now just how far east were you when all this happened?

We were in Edmundston, NB when the bearing blew. Our trip brought us from Wheatley, ON to Mahone Bay, NS... 7 to 9 hour drives, camping for 2 nights at each destination. Usually at a national park. My wife works for Parks Canada, so we get free entry.

I just got back home 2hrs ago.

Rick

 

[ERIK KNIVES]

Welcome home!

 

[skyhorse]

Glad you're home safe Rick.LOL,you are now an Official Redneck.Nice work!:thumbup:

 

[Rick Marchand]

Glad you're home safe Rick.LOL,you are now an Official Redneck.Nice work!:thumbup:

I'll wear that badge with honour.:thumbup:

Rick

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Firmly affixed to your dirty plaid work shirt with duct tape.

 

[kgd]

My wife works for Parks Canada, so we get free entry.

Man, too bad she don't work at a ripper bar or a theatre eh? Joking (.....about the theatre)....

 

[unky_gumbi]

We were in Edmundston, NB when the bearing blew. Our trip brought us from Wheatley, ON to Mahone Bay, NS... 7 to 9 hour drives, camping for 2 nights at each destination. Usually at a national park. My wife works for Parks Canada, so we get free entry.

I just got back home 2hrs ago.

Rick

you probably took the same route we would when we would go east as kids, down the 401 to the 20 to the 2 and onto the 104. We would just stay on the 104 and go further east and past New Glasow to my grandparents in between a couple of little fishing villages on the south shore. I loved that drive as a kid, but my father would do it straight through with only gas/bathroom breaks. 16 hours in an old ford station wagon or late the old Dodge panel van always made getting there that much better