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[GMCnet] Still at It [message #221574] Sat, 07 September 2013 22:44 Go to previous message
Ken Henderson is currently offline  Ken Henderson   United States
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Registered: March 2004
Location: Americus, GA
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Well, the module may have helped a little, but not much. We made
ishoulder.75 miles with no trouble. Then, just about a mile below Cerro
Summit (<8000'), it began to die again. We disconnected the toad and the
GMC seemed will against -- for <1/2 mile. Then it just quit on a 5% up
grade with no shoulder. I had HER go back down the 4-lane 200 yards, below
the nearest pull-off, and block the lane with the CRV & flashers.
Fortunately, there was little traffic and most of it was 30 mph trucks. I
backed own into that pull-off with no power brakes -- turns out my manually
controlled boost pump has failed too. No too bad at 2-3 mph, but I still
used the pneumatic pedal puller a couple of times for relief.

With no other bright ideas, I replaced the high pressure filter with my
spare. By that time "whatever" had cooled down, so I was ready to proceed
when the highway patrolman stopped to "help".

10 miles or so farther along, on a similar, probably higher grade for which
I don't know a name, traffic was stopped by a flagman. After 30-40
vehicles came down through the wide construction zone, the 30-40 of us
who'd gathered in 20 minutes or so were waved through. About number 3 in
the procession, the GMC went about 100' before it decided it didn't like
the game. I waved the queue around us into the adjacent restricted lane
and the road crew directed them back into the traffic lane a little farther
up the grade. The traffic supervisor arrived almost immediately "...don't
worry about it, it happens all the time. I'll take a look at it in a
minute.". He got busy on the radio. When he returned to me, I explained
that only patience would help. After 15 minutes or so, it decided to run
again, so I ran 30 mph in the 25 mph zone to try to catch my
long-diappeared convoy. Just as they reappeared, it quit again. That time
only a 5 minute rest was required and I proceeded to were the traffic
supervisor was stopped near the end of the zone. "Is it running
again?"..."OK, follow me." He apparently delayed the release of the
downhill bunch to take me clear.

The road crew took it all in stride: "No problem, happens every day.".
'''That's a beauty, what year is it?" "Got any kids along that we need to
get water for or anything?" NO "Get that d...ed ol'' piece of junk out of
the way...". :-)

Within a mile or two we were parked beside a stream having lunch. Even
that was not entirely uneventful: I don't think I mentioned yesterday that
the generator has now become cantankerous -- it doesn't seem to like to run
the A/C for more than 5-10 minutes at a time. I've only checked the full
crankcase so far. Need to look at its gas filter too.

Even before the construction zone, I'd decided to lay over in Gunnison and
hit Monarch Pass early in the morning with a full tank of cool fuel, so
here we are at the "Tall Texan RV Park". Don't know where the name came
from because the owner is a short Polak. I know because the host called
him out after I reported a problem with the power -- the A/C wouldn't run.
Turned out, MY power cord chose now to short (through melted insulation)
and destroy the plug. :-(

That's still not the end of the tale: Gunnison shuts down Saturday
afternoon and Sunday. Only the little Walmart was open. The host called
and the reported that the did have the 30A plug n stock. Naturally, they
had adapters only, no plugs nor sockets. But as I stood there discovering
that fact, the campground host called my cell phone to say he'd found anew
spare in his trailer -- left over from an earlier rig.

We now have shore power again. And baked a nice pizza for supper.

But, no, that's not all: At some point the host noticed a low tire on the
Honda. He pumped it up with shop air, but I just checked and it's low
again. Since there will be no repair shop open tomorrow and I don't want
to mount the spare, the first early morning we can tackle Monarch is
Tuesday. Thank goodness it's a pleasant area and a nice park ("only" $36
per night w/o cable).

The one suspect item I can think of now is the distributor condenser. That
is, to the best of my knowledge, NLA. But I do have a spare distributor
with me from which I can take it. At this point it's worth a try.

Still waiting for the Silver Bullet!

Ken H.
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