I'm sitting here in Minneapolis, waiting to fly the last leg of this trip back to Atlanta. One more trip to go this month with a friend of mine, so I'm looking forward to that. Another month done in the countdown. I had mentioned that on speaking with our financial person I would plan to go past our original date of the end of Feb. Well, we've decided the end of March is the time to go. I'm working on Feb's schedule now and then one more bid and it will be done! This month has been quite good, flew with great guys which makes all the difference.
The extra month will give us some time to deal further with our storage unit. Jan has been making a lot of progress on it while I've been working. We also want to go through the basement, repack it and pull out anything we haven't used in the past year. We both work hard not to accumulate "stuff", but it still seems to happen. We've reached a point in our lives, reinforced by living in a very limited space, that we don't need "stuff" anymore. We have a friend who quite a few years ago, when we still had a house, said he wasn't interested in accumulating anything anymore and we really didn't understand, well, now we do!
The leak around the vent is confirmed to be fixed. It has been raining a lot this week and is expected to continue for a few more days. Nice and dry. The WiFi Ranger seems to be working well. We almost want to move just so we can see how it does further away from the antennas :) We will move at the end of March, we'll have to wait til then.
We have reached 62,000 miles on our motorhome and need to plan to have a service done on the engine, a Detroit Diesel. We asked Brett at Alliance Coach for a recommendation, so I talked to the dealer he told us about in Ocala, FL. He indicated we should wait until closer to 80,000 miles to have the valve lash adjusted, so we plan to do it next winter as we make our circuit around the US back to Florida. We are losing about a cup of coolant every 3-5000 miles, I asked if that was normal. After all, the coolant system holds about 30 quarts, unfortunately, the dealer said no, so we are going to stop and have it looked at when we head south at the end of March. We have our fingers crossed it is something simple and inexpensive to fix!
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Lemme' guess,...Detroit 60 Series, gotta hope it is a clamp or something stupid. Otherwise the Q/A guys at De-toi Diesel have another head alignment problem.
The service guy expects it to be a clamp, although Monaco used to use a Ford coolant sensor that was prone to internal leaks, so the coolant would travel down the wiring loom into the ECM and fry it! Talked to guy that had it happen to him. I checked mine and it is a DD part with no leakage thank goodness! Boy I sure hope it's not a head alignment problem, I think I can see the dollar signs from here!
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