More developments

We had a pretty quiet week.  We did a lot of prep work for my mother's memorial service that we held yesterday.  It was quiet and nice, just what she wanted.

On the motorhome front, a few more unexpected items.  We have to be ready to move on Sunday as we are going up to Alliance Coach Sunday through.......Friday maybe to get all new Girard slide topper awnings installed and our Carefrees removed, and all new awning fabric for our 2 patio awnings, door awning and all of our window awnings.  We may have them repair our front driver's side wheel well that is a bit torn at the top from touching the tire in a very sharp turn in a precarious slope we encountered.  Time will tell as our patience grows thin sitting and waiting and waiting.  To the issue of moving, we needed to get the refrigerator hooked back up to water and secure it in its cubby prior to our trip.  Come to find out with all the in and out and jostling, we were unable to get it back out!  So had to grab the tools once again, cut some more tile, chip it out and then roll it out.  Well when we hook up the water, guess what, the hose connections leak.  Big surprise, right?  Off to the hardware store, new fittings, oh great they don't fit, back to the store, then another store, new fittings, more leaks, recut the tubing, clean it all up, put it back together, and.......no leaks!  But to be sure we left the refrig unsecured and will pull it out again this morning and do our final check, then button it up for good.  Now makes us wonder if there was possibly a leak from the frig to add to our floor problems????  It sure seemed to be dry when we pulled it out to begin with, but who knows?

I got the new switch for our power cord reel woes.  Good to go right?  No!  Put in the brand new switch, and it still only runs in one direction.  Man, this is killing me.  Troubleshoot some more, call the manufacturer and together we decide that one of the two limit switches is probably bad.  There is one limit switch to shut off power when the cord is entirely run out, and one limit switch that shuts it down when the cord comes all the way in.  Okay no problem, we never utilize the limit switches anyway so I am just going to wire around them.  So in a few minutes through contortions to get to the wiring, I get them both bypassed, ask Jan to hit the switch and....it still only runs in one direction!  Bad, bad words ensued.  So I do continuity checks on the wires from the switch to the motor, and by the way I had done this several times before, and find out there is no continuity in one wire, huh?  So I track it down pull out the wire looms to follow the wire and what do we have here?  Monaco, the coach manufacturer, for some absolutely unknown reason has buried an in-line fuse in only one of the legs to the motor!!!!  And it is blown.  Replace the fuse, all is well, then remove that fuse and its assembly, as the entire unit is already protected with a circuit breaker, and now finally it is working fine and I have an extra switch, yippee, for a measly $40 that I don't need.  Live and learn.

Also along with our upcoming remodel of the coach we have been trying to decide what to do with our fabric couch.  It is showing some wear and we thought to replace it with a loveseat and a custom table, but through trial and error and some ideas from the RV show, we decided to replace the couch with a Stressless chair which we ordered, and a cherry filing cabinet that we have in storage.  So in a month or so when the chair arrives we will get that done.