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The transfer case is weeping again,
a slow, metallic drip that stains the concrete.
I know the source, a familiar pain:
the locker gasket and its tired O-ring.
I’ll hit it with brake-clean, a harsh solution,
to dry its tears, to find the truth,
to see what remains when the surface is new.
And there, a different stain,
a ghost from the past,
where the power steering pump had bled its life.
I wiped it clean, a promise to myself,
that the leaks would stop, that the work was done.
But tomorrow, the real battle begins.
The headers and the valve cover gasket
wait for me.
The tight, unyielding spaces,
the hot, unforgiving metal.
This is not a repair, but a slow pilgrimage,
a test of patience
and knuckles.
