Friday, June 3, 2016

06/03/2016 - On 5/30 Aunt Ada and Robyn came over for dinner and Aunt Ada brought all of her stuff that she needed for the next 2 months.  We unpacked her, had dinner and then off to bed.

5/31 - We left Phoenix at about 10:00am.  We stopped at a rest stop for lunch and then spent the night at a Gallup, New Mexico Walmart.

6/1 - We left Gallup around 9:00am.  We stopped for lunch at a rest stop and it was rather cold, so I decided to turn on the heat when there appeared to be a problem.  I immediately turned it off but then checked and lost some coolant but things seemed to be fine.  When we got to a Love's truck stop, a low water light came on.  I was thinking that it probably was the coolant I lost.   We spent the night at the truck stop in Tucumcari, New Mexico.

6/2 - We left around 9:00am and soon after the low water light appeared again.  We stopped at a small repair shop who put in about a gallon of coolant in the plastic container.  We were on our way again but soon, the light came on again and then the engine temperature gauge starting going nuts and at one time when over to "high" so I pulled off the road but soon the gauge went back to below normal so then we stopped again to ask for a mechanic and found one just down the street.  He immediately learned that the other tank which was also coolant was almost empty so the coolant in the plastic container had not made it to the tank and he felt it was because of some air that had gotten in since it was so low before.  Anyway, he put in two gallons of coolant and we are once again on our way.  Just before we got to Weatherford, Oklahoma it the engine started to run hot again but would immediately cool down.  I called Mark (mechanic in San Diego) to get some information, and he thinks it is the gauge since a Cumins engine does not heat and cool off that fast.  We have decided to try and limp to Alma, Arkansas where my first cousin's lives and there is an RV repair shop there.  We have 263 miles.

6/3 - I finally can blog because I was out of gigabytes for the Wifi until this morning.

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