=20 Truck Maintenance Issues:
Found out the old radiator was to= ast. Dropped in a new one. Only
issue I had was filling it. It took 4 st= ores and 3 different trips
between Jan and myself to find distilled water. = You'd think with the
passion Americans have with over priced water in bott= les that this
would be easy to find...
Finally located one of my l= ong time electrical gremlins. Turned out
to be a flaky ground on my keyles= s entry system. The bad news is
that the wipers now seem to not work at al= l. Before my only issue
was the delay not working which was just an annoya= nce. My plan is to
wire a jumper in somewhere to a momentary switch and ho= pe that it
doesn't rain too much until I have time to track down a better s=
olution. If it does rain, it'll give Jan something to do :)
Also disco= vered that the electric fan isn't working. Need to
investigate if my contr= ol module is just toast, or if it has power
and ground. My override switch= [manual switch on the AC clutch
bypass] doesn't work either, so there may = be another patch cord with
an on/off switch there. Shouldn't matter much t= onight as long as we
can keep moving.
Packing. We've got t= he majority of the stuff packed and loaded, with
more things that still nee= d to go in, and there's not much room to
put them. I get the feeling that = Jason and Norah are the only ones
taking more stuff than we are. I wasn't = planning on taking a
trailer, and you'd think that with a 6.5' bed with a 4= " rise cap
would be enough space for two people and a quarter pound of bird= .
Bird and cage ride with some of the overspill in the back of the
extende= d cab. I really need to duct tape the spare tire to the
outside somewhere.= A 33 x 12.5 MT eats up a lot of bed space...
Time to finish lunc= h now.
David
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