Start engine, fasten seat belts, let’s go---uh oh. Can’t turn—no power steering !@#$%!*!
Called Freightliner Service (actually tried about 5 Kansas dealerships with no success; finally called the corp. office). According to the HelpTech Duane, we needed a new power steering pump—Oh #@!%$#*! And, of course, they try to get you to use a Freightliner Dealership. But because the weather’s been so nasty, most local Freightliner dealers are backed up and couldn’t get to us until next week—oh !@#$%!!!, actually double !@#$%!!!
So after about 2 hours on the phone with him and various other repair shops, he located a local shop about 30 miles from the casino that could come out and check out our problem. Service tech arrived and first looked at the brakes (remember when we were in the industrial park the dashboard said our front brakes were low). He found the air line to the left front brake was detached and the right air line was almost off--!@#$*!!! He speculated they had not been sufficiently tightened in the factory. He fixed that problem easily—now the power steering pump was another issue. Part needed to be ordered; they could get it in next day and would work on installation right away, but we had to get RV to his shop 30 miles away.
Called BigRig Towing—they can tow us later today—great!
We need to detach car so we can follow rig. !@#$%*!!! Car won’t start !@#$%*!
We spent the night at the Valley Falls Truck and Trailer service lot—it was a lovely setting amid old fire trucks, semis, and dump trucks! We had hopes of letting Gus and Woody run off-leash in the lot but the service manager told us about the area’s active coyote population—eeek!
Still toasty in the coach; no TV reception, so we watched a couple of movies. It is VERY QUIET!
Still toasty in the coach; no TV reception, so we watched a couple of movies. It is VERY QUIET!
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