Happy Dancing

I charged the old battery all night long and this morning it barely lit the interior light. So executive decision time, I decided to replace it with a new battery from AutoZone. After I picked up my Walmart order I also picked up a battery. That was the easy part. 

Then came the variety of YouTube videos on how to open the hood (there’s a hidden knob after you pop the latch inside the cab), how to remove the old battery from its holder, how to put the new battery in place and finally how to jump up and down doing the happy dance! Just kidding about the last one.

What the YouTube videos don’t tell you is the size and type of tools to gather. It took me about two hours of searching for tools. I went everywhere searching out my pink tub of socket wrenches and such only to finally discover I had replaced it with a black tub that I dismissed looking inside earlier because I KNEW they were in a pink tub! Insert face-plant. Yep. That old finding things in the last place you look only works if you look in it! I was super happy when I did finally locate it.

Then I got the black connection loose easily but the red one was difficult. Finally after much prayer and taking breaks - it worked! I freed both terminals and the battery hold down. I popped, sort of, the new battery in, tightened back down everything. And viola it is done! 

Turned on the engine and ZZZZRRRROOOOOM! Happy dance all around. 

Tomorrow I’m going to try my hand at doing an oil change I have all the tools I hope and I’ll get up early to start that one. 

She’s scheduled for a windshield replacement Friday and next week she goes to Carroll’s garage for a tune up and hopefully make her road safe work to start. It may take awhile, but when she’s finished she will be ready for the next thing - maybe it will be rust remediation and removal and paint?

Still trying to decide if I want the ladder racks on the roof. I’ll have to look at how they’re up there, if they can serve an alternative function and how hard it might be to remove them. 

For now I’m just basking in the glow of a job accomplished that I didn’t ever do before and really could pass on ever doing again, haha, but now I know I CAN do it - with enough time and prayer!