=20 Rolled into the driveway about 9:45PM last night. 6322 miles
doorstep to do= orstep. 473.58 gallons of gas at a cost of $1,413.27
with an overall averag= e of 13.349 mpg.
Had a small problem in PA, yesterday, that requ= ired a 3-4 hour visit
to a dealer. The hard line for the rear brakes ruptur= ed. The line
itself was all rusted up and of course it had to pop right beh= ind
the fuel tank so they had to drop the tank (which of course was full)
t= o replace it eating up about 4 hours on us. Was able to slowly limp
it to a= nearby dealership since we had no brakes. Because of the
delay, we skippe= d 3 final stops on out itinerary Centrailia,
Cabela's and OCC.
I also have to take a look at the AC. It quit working sometime after I
was= cleaning on Sat morning before the DTW NGTG show. The compressor
kicks in = and has enough pressure (50-60 psi on the low side
according to the gauge I= put on it), but it just blows at outside air
temp and not cold. However, t= he line running from the condenser to
the firewall gets cold enough to have= condensation on it. Sunday, it
was cooler to run with the windows down vs.= up with the AC (even in
the 100 degree weather). I'm hoping I just knocked= loose a connector
for the blend door or something like that. I think it qu= it after
hitting the engine compartment with the hose at the car wash. I'll=
have to poke around a bit and see if anything stands out.
Met = up with Gary Hedlin in St. Louis. Both he and I took "Top 10"
trophies at = the DTW event.
I stopped updating the blog just before leaving = CO, so I have some
catch-up to do. At one point, I couldn't update my pers= onal Blog
because it would time out while publishing over the cellular conn=
ection. I had to open a Remote Desktop session with my 2000 server at
the h= ouse and publish to the blog from it, however, that was a time
consuming pr= ocess so I just gave up after a few times. Give me a day
or two to get situ= ated and I'll get back on that.
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Posted by Walt Felix to National DML Meet at 8/01/2006 06:23:00 AM<=
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