all gummed up

Geoff is a Cadillac man. I can't blame him. They're very nice if you give them a look.

He has an old Fleetwood, beaten by time and the elements and a succession of owners each caring less then the one before. The exhaust needs repair but what really bothered him is that the passenger door wouldn't open.

He came over today with his daughter and his dad. The old man (my younger brother) was lying in the car after they got here trying to get some reaction out of said door.

Geoff wanted to use a slimjim that I have somewhere in my tool boxes but I couldn't find it. I told him we could just use a hanger and give it a go.

He didn't much like that. People today think they need special tools, preferably powered, for everything. Just the same I cut and bent a wire hanger and went to work.

Found the right piece to pull on in about 3 minutes and opened the door.

The mechanism was all gummed up, looked like the wrong type of grease had been applied at sometime and had frozen everything in place. I started spraying Kroil into it and moving things back and forth as best as I could. Geoff pulled the inner door panel for better access and kept the spray treatment up. Worked fine when he quit.

That door had been held shut for the past year and it had kept people from getting in and out on that side of the car, didn't take much to change that.

Sort of like us.

Doesn't take much to keep us from moving on to a better life and it doesn't take much to change that either.