As you may remember, our roof peeled up on one side. So, this past week, it has been at Chris' Collision in Grass Valley (about 35 miles of very windy road from here) for the repair. We have been having trouble with the engine cutting out, leaving me searching for a large enough spot to stop and no power steering to do it with! We have a Cummins 400 (diesel), complete with all the dang computer codes. If something goes wrong, the computer shuts off the engine....which is good because it keeps us from totally ruining our Magic Bus!! But it's also bad if something shuts down your power. Ok, so we got the roof fixed and then DeMartini's RV was kind enough to let us stay the night with their hook ups. We had a nice, quiet night and then, the next morning, drove it around the corner to NorthStar trucking. The Magic Bus spent the day there, but they didn't have the proper adapter to check the codes! RATS!!! They did replace 2 fouled fuel filters (say THAT three times! LOL!). But, now, we needed to get it to South Sacramento to the guy that can look at it with the proper fittings.Oh well, we got the laundry done at least. We keep reminding each other that this is our home and you just gotta fix stuff...... unfortunately, we seem to have purchased a rig that got basically NO maintenance at all. And it obviously wasn't checked all that well at Camping World beforehand either.
We have been putting a shitload of money into our RV and, frankly, we are running low in funds this month. So, we decided to chance it and try for the Camptonville RV park and do the next repair in a few months. But, that still meant we had to chance it dying again. So, off we went, with Alan leading the way. And we made it just fine!! So nice to just drive and not be dying halfway up a hill!! Got to our campsite and with Alan's excellent directions, I backed her in and we set up "home". GREAT to be back, even though we really enjoyed the coast. Alan is on his way back from picking up Lisa at her sister's (thanks again, Linda!!)
Is it too much to ask that the fuel filters were the problem?? The mechanic told me that if the fuel pressure is not right, then the computer will shut things down. Not a glitch coming back to Camptonville. Going to have things checked anyway when we leave for the winter on our way to Texas.
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