Awake 5:55am Temp 47 Sunny Overnight @ Lakeside, CA
Just as I am having my cold coffee & Kathy is having her hot tea, Melissa
calls from Anchorage. They have decided to bring Matthew's car seat with
them to San Diego. This is good news & will make it easier during our
rendezvous.
I talk with the guy across the street about moving his car tomorrow so we
can pull out with less difficulty. "No problem!" he says. About an hr
later, the lady on our drivers side exits their motorhome & I ask her
about parking her car in a different spot so we can leave tomorrow without
too much maneuvering. "You bet!" she says.
I am not convinced that our tag axle hub leak is due to a weak "0" ring.
In fact as the coach is parked, I can see oil seeping down on the tire &
it can't be residual from our trip here on Sunday. Again I remove the axle
hub cap...& using a mirror, focus the bright sunlight on the reservoir
hub...ah ha! I can see dents on the underside of this aluminum hub....& a
hairline crack with oil slowly seeping out from one of the dents. Probably
these dents were caused by the sledge hammer the service guys were using
when changing the rims. With the dents on the bottom of the hub, the oil
seeps out slowly when parked, otherwise @ the factory, it would have
leaked out during our time there. Coincidentally during that time, the hub
dents must have rotated upright when parked each time & no oil seeped out
until our travels began.
Anyway, I call Tommy @ the Newell factory & explain what's happening. He
agreed with my theory & will air ship a new hub assembly to our next
campground in San Diego...paid by Newell.
Meanwhile, I move the coach about 3 ft to rotate the hub dents upright &
no more seeping oil. Then I clean oil off the hub with paint thinner, let
it dry & smear some silicone on the dented area to maybe stop any more
leaking on our trip to San Diego tomorrow.
Kathy & I walk the park for exercise 30 min. She walks an extra 30 min
while I wash the bugs & grime off the front of our coach & oil that slung
off the tag axle onto the right side of our Suzuki.
7:00pm Dinner: Turkey Divan with broccoli & brown rice, mixed salad, &
garlic bread.
No good movies tonight so we watch the history channel: Breaking Las
Vegas...counterfeiting tokens. Fascinating! Then one of us watches the
designing & construction of the Mackinac bridge in Michigan.
High temp today=78 Lights out: 10:45pm
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