I Used a pole to go in between the bed and the cab and then used my tie downs to pull on the pole, which straightened the bed. It worked awesome!
I got the bed back straight for free. So I'm feeling pretty good about myself. Also, I realized that now, when I do stuff like this, I can say that I engineered a solution. I guess before when I had crazy ideas, all I could say is that I did some stupid shit!
Then moving on to my car. Using my history of used cars that I drove into the ground as a base line. I figured that when it comes to breaks, you just wait till they start making noise and then change the pads. After 90,000 miles, my brakes started to make noises. So, I picked up some pads and got to work after the kids went to bed. The first thing that went wrong was my jack broke. I bought this really cheap hydraulic years ago and that decided it didn't want to lift anymore. So off to Walmart I go. I get the better of the two jacks available and get back home just to find out that there is a TORX bolt holding in the brake pad. So it's back to Walmart. It's about 3 am now... and there is only two people in the store. Me and this lady.
Oh fun! Of course she got ahead of me in line and of course she took a full 20 minutes to check out! I was pretty much at the end of my little happy rope when I got out of there. O get back to find out that I need a new roter, so I just quit there and go to the shop. In the end it took about $400 to get everything fixed. That was the pads, a roter and another roter turned. It was just too much fun.
As a consolation prize for reading about my Walmart misadventures... here's a picture of Hayden right before school.
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