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Tue, 20 December 2016 07:21

jhbridges

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Registered: May 2011
Location: Braselton ga

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The Big White Dog No Host Assembly was in my case preceded by a show in Savannah. The coach ran well, until I got to the weight station on I-16 about fifteen miles from Savannah. KAaPOW, and a look out the side showed coolant and steam blowing everyplace. I pulled off, and had a look under. Not a broken hose fortunately, rather when I replaced the radiator I dodn't get the upper clamp sufficiently tight. So, slipped it back on and tightened it properly with a wrench. The nice cop at the weigh station showed me the faucet, three trips with my 'Corn boiler' pot and off we went. No further trouble with cooling. One of the ladies who shows Dachshunds has a pig - pilling on Friday night before this show, she brings a giant smoker and does a whole pig. Everybody brings sides and dessert, it's a fine feed.
Monday early headed to Lake Louisa State Park NW of Orlando, joined by the Jordans in their coach, the Galbavys in theirs, and the Phipps in their new(er) SOB. Tom Proyor joined us and stayed with me in the front bunk. Ham n Beans, Almost Famous Chicken, Down East pulled pig BBQ, and a night at the Vietnamese joint in Clermont. Good eating, visits to Jim Bounds' Co-op, a ride in the Diesel conversion coach, and in my case a browse through the junk bin for some pneumatic parts. Folks headed out Saturday while I did the Dog Show Thing, we had three BWDs for the kids to pet and oooh and aaah over. It looked something like this:

https://www.facebook.com/KuvaszClubOfAmerica/?fref=ts

Poke around and there are some vids of kids and the dogs.

Early Monday morning I set sail North after nine days of GMCing one place or another. The trip went great until I was about ten miles North of Atlanta, where the relatively new transmission decided it would play no more. Didn't slip, just disengaged in third. Pulled fine on first and second so I eased it up the road in second until about three miles from the house where second disengaged. I got it off the road and parked on the access drive to an old cemetery. I'm currently waiting for Alton Edge to call when his heavy wrecker is available to yank it the last few miles to its resting pad out back by my shop. When it first disengaged, I had a look, fluid was halfway between the dot and the 'add one pint' mark, I brought it up to the full mark. Not foamy, not burnt, smells normal. No obvious leaks. This trans was installed when I bought the coach, it's a new Manny rebuild. I'll speak with him when I get it home and the pan removed, and see what the next step might be. I suspect I'm going to learn how to R&R the transmission in the GMC motorhome. I'd been a bit concerned about the oil pressure the engine holds, but it's within the wear limits and the PO said it's always been that way. So while I was a bit tense over that the new no worries transmission lunched. Go figure.
Two little hiccups apart, it was a fun week.

--johnny

Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons. Braselton, Ga. I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell