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May 22, 2008
Fun thought of the day
So, I'm stuck at a Carribou in Maplewood. I've been here since 8:30 am while my car gets worked on. At present the ETA is $350 and 4 hours on a lift. This is after my $230 car wash yesterday (oh, and they thew in a free remote door opener).
The one fun thing is that after they started working on problem 1 of 3 they found a fourth issue. Turns out something that has the word "bellows" in it has a tear and that's apparently not a good thing. So they're fixing that.
This latest news put a fun thought in my mind. Since there's a bellows of some variety in my car I've decided that the guys from fraggle rock are real, they live in my car, and they have progressed into their own little iron age. Good luck little builders and avoid the dark ages if you can. No one wins when knowledge is considered bad and dogma's rule supreme.
UPDATE: I just read the whole wikipedia article for fraggle rock and saw that a movie is in the works with Frank Zappa's son doing the script. It's live action and should ship sometime in '09. Neat :)
Posted by bucjos at May 22, 2008 12:14 PM
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Sorry Brother, had I known you were right down the street (I was off today dorking around) I'd have come kept you company.
Posted by: kruck at May 22, 2008 06:29 PM
They are using bellows as a fancy way to say rubber boot. You probably have them in a few places on your car. The CV joints on the front axle are covered by one and then there is one on each strut to keep dirt off them. Depending on how fancy your steering rack is, you might have a couple there too.
Posted by: jeff at May 27, 2008 09:16 AM