Awake: 5:19am Temp 61 sleep 5+45 sunny overnight @ Newell, Miami, OK.
Kathy & I were ready for the early bird doorbell ding; about 6:45am, Kyle, the driver, retracted the shore cable & drove our bus around to Bay #18.
About an hr later, the techs lifted the front of our motorhome with heavy air jacks, & then stabilized the coach with stationary jacks. Next they removed both tires & rims in preparation for the extension hubs they will put on to accommodate wider tires. With the wider tires, we can go faster & get 50% better miles per gallon.
No, that's not true; I wish it were. Wider tires allow us to have less front tire pressure, which in turn, smoothes out the bumps in the road & helps to prevent front tire blowouts.
Here we see a tech trying to wipe the blood off his hands due to carelessness.
No, that's not true either; he is greasing the spindle in prep for the wider hub by his right leg.
Here is a better photo of what will be on that spindle.
Later, technician Whitey started working on the inside of our dash. According to the techs, ever since the company has been using the Caterpillar Engine, the pressure output for circulation of coolant for the front heaters, has been stronger than they realized. Quite a few of the 2007 year coaches have had coolant leaks in those heaters; we were one of many.
Here we see the back of Mark working on our Pex leak...the water system.
Meanwhile, I kept myself busy, not disturbing Whitey but watching the process; same pattern I had with watching Mark & other techs working on other coaches.
Kathy meanwhile, kept busy getting to know the other ladies & gabbing in the customer's lounge.
Dinner: tuna, spinach salad, Como breadm & cutie oranges while watching some of our political programs in the customer's lounge.
Later, in our coach, we finished watching the recorded movie: "Only When I Laugh" with Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett, David Dukes, John Bennett Perry, Kevin Bacon. Bittersweet Neil Simon comedy about alcoholic actress Mason struggling to stay off the bottle and her relationship with teenaged daughter McNichol. 1981. Bittersweet it was, & very sensitive with a strong message.
Lights out: 11:16pm.
Kathy & I were ready for the early bird doorbell ding; about 6:45am, Kyle, the driver, retracted the shore cable & drove our bus around to Bay #18.
About an hr later, the techs lifted the front of our motorhome with heavy air jacks, & then stabilized the coach with stationary jacks. Next they removed both tires & rims in preparation for the extension hubs they will put on to accommodate wider tires. With the wider tires, we can go faster & get 50% better miles per gallon.
No, that's not true; I wish it were. Wider tires allow us to have less front tire pressure, which in turn, smoothes out the bumps in the road & helps to prevent front tire blowouts.
Here we see a tech trying to wipe the blood off his hands due to carelessness.
No, that's not true either; he is greasing the spindle in prep for the wider hub by his right leg.
Here is a better photo of what will be on that spindle.
Later, technician Whitey started working on the inside of our dash. According to the techs, ever since the company has been using the Caterpillar Engine, the pressure output for circulation of coolant for the front heaters, has been stronger than they realized. Quite a few of the 2007 year coaches have had coolant leaks in those heaters; we were one of many.
Here we see the back of Mark working on our Pex leak...the water system.
Meanwhile, I kept myself busy, not disturbing Whitey but watching the process; same pattern I had with watching Mark & other techs working on other coaches. Kathy meanwhile, kept busy getting to know the other ladies & gabbing in the customer's lounge.
Dinner: tuna, spinach salad, Como breadm & cutie oranges while watching some of our political programs in the customer's lounge.
Later, in our coach, we finished watching the recorded movie: "Only When I Laugh" with Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett, David Dukes, John Bennett Perry, Kevin Bacon. Bittersweet Neil Simon comedy about alcoholic actress Mason struggling to stay off the bottle and her relationship with teenaged daughter McNichol. 1981. Bittersweet it was, & very sensitive with a strong message.
Lights out: 11:16pm.
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