Thursday 6 February 2014

Thursday Feb 6th

Ooops, missed posting yesterday.  It was a bit of a rushed day with us.  I went with Gene in the morning and played golf.  It was a cooler day, but just right for golf.  I didn't have the game I had last week, rather one more like my regular game, but it was good.  Marg went with the gamblin' gals to Ft McDowell, but same with her, she never repeated the big successes she had the week prior.
  By the time she got back, the hamburger fry was on, so we went for burgers and fries.  Gary's crew always does a great job with them.  The remaining time we had, we spent packing stuff away and getting the motorhome road ready for Thursday.  That may not sound like much, but we get pretty spread out when we are parked for a while and you can't have a lot of stuff loose and rolling around when this unit is on the road.  One of the early stuff put away was the wifi unit, so no blog.
  Got up this morning and finished the packing in time to be on the road for 10AM.  It's about 15 or more miles to Camping World and the freeway is pretty busy in the area we end up on.  With the broken window and difficulty seeing through it, I wanted to travel mid-morning so the traffic would be light.  Got there fine and left them the unit.  I also had them check the genset to see why it doesn't start.
  We went for lunch to the 5 & Diner.  It's always good there & we both ordered off the seniors menu today.  Hey maybe that's why I have lost some weight, smaller quantities on the sr's menu.  After Marg went to Burlington Coat to kill some time and wouldn't you know it, she found some good deals, so a successful trip. 
  Picked up the motorhome and CW did an excellent job on installing the new window.  Now hopefully the jerk who broke it has paid them, so I don't ever have to deal with him again.  The genset, well it has hardly been used since new and that is the problem.  The carb is all plugged and they don't rebuild them anymore.  The quote to replace it, just over $600.  If they had at least included the diagnostic in that amount, I might have proceeded.  Well it's not happening here.  Add to that the exchange we are paying now, makes it pretty expensive.  With the exchange rate and then the bank pound of flesh, we are paying about 12 cents on the dollar now.  Didn't get out of there without a purchase, bought a new water pump for the coach as the old one is leaking.
  Got back in good time & set up again.  Then installed the new water pump.  By that time it was happy hour, so over to Larry & Nancy's place.    Oh yeh, then over to Kenny's to pick up the bike, I had stored it there, because I normally lock it to the motorhome ladder and didn't want to risk forgetting it and dragging it down the freeway, LOL!  Could happen!
 

2 comments:

  1. Glad that the window is resolved. That carb sounds like a good excuse for a tinker. They do carb cleaner in a spray can, the trick when stripping it is to count the number of turns when removing any adjustment screws so they go back in approximately the same place. Discard any bits left over, jobs a good un.

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  2. Yeah, what he said... Glad you fondly got the window sorted x

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