| Trip Report 2 & 3 [message #220594] |
Fri, 30 August 2013 22:57  |
George Beckman
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Colfax, CA
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Well, so much for nice cool trips through the mid West. It is hot here.
We are in Pratt, Kansas, at a little man made lake with piers made of rock that you can drive out on giving you the feeling of being in a boat. $5 a night without hookups. Nice. The only down side is it is Friday night and the kiddies are out to watch the Submarine Races and it seems to be a place to "cruise" if that is still the word.
Last night we were in Green River, CO. Nice little place to change an alternator. Yeah, I am not having much luck with them. This was a warranted item from NAPA. At least it was free but only lasted 1100 miles before it began to charge irregularly and then finally not at all. I am now the proud owner of O'Reily's 100 amp job. It has worked fine one day in a row.
Still plagued with a bit of vapor lock. As Ken Henderson reported, filling with gas cures it for about 90 minutes or so. Sure is funny because we have nothing but Ethanol in CA and have driven all over in hotter weather than this... mountains and valleys. We don't have 85 octane in CA.
This time I simply kept going. It just surges a bit now and then.
If all goes well we will be with the Van Winkles tomorrow afternoon.
'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
Best Wishes,
George
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