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Mon, 16 May 2016 21:35  |
Carl S.
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Registered: January 2009
Location: Tucson, AZ.
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We left home Thursday afternoon after work at about 1:00, with a full tank of winter mix gas, temps about 93. Had a little initial fuel starvation issues for the first 65 miles or so, until we got out of the hilly terrain and east of Texas Canyon on I-10. The Onan died before we even got out of our driveway (Fuel pump problem, I think) so we used the dash air only. It actually kept us reasonably comfortable.
Stopped in Deming NM for gas and supper and rolled into the parking lot in front of Hal Kading's fueling business at the Las Cruces airport at about 6:45, after losing an hour to a time change (Mountain Standard to Mountain Daylight Savings). Thanks to Hal, we had a nice quiet secure place to sleep for the night.
Got up early, hit the road and bypassed El Paso around the north and east side of town, again thanks to Hal for the suggested route. The bypass was great until the end where there was construction and a very poorly marked detour to get back on I-10 East. Stopped at a pit of a gas station, they didn't have regular, gassed up anyway with midgrade.
The coach ran great the whole way on through our next gas stop (Ft Stockton) and in to San Angelo. We are staying at San Angelo State Park where we have 50 amp power and water at the site, with a dump station out the road a piece. We're having a nice visit with my daughter, our son in law, and their two children, one of whom we hadn't met in person yet (3 month old little grand daughter).
I changed out the fuel pump the other morning and ran the Onan, with a load on it, while we drove over to the dump station this afternoon and it kept running, so I'm still pretty sure it was a bad fuel pump (a several year old Mr Gasket) that was the problem
We'll be leaving here Thursday morning and taking a different route home including a visit to Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
Oh, the road went from very good in stretches, to bad in others. The Texas DOT's way of dealing with bad paving seems to be to put up "Rough Road" signs every half mile or so. Between the rough roads and the crosswinds, driving was kind of a chore. I guess a little more front end work is in order, although I'm not sure it will help.
Carl Stouffer
'75 ex Palm Beach
Tucson, AZ.
Chuck Aulgur Reaction Arm Disc Brakes, Quadrabags, 3.70 LSD final drive, Lenzi knuckles/hubs, Dodge Truck 16" X 8" front wheels, Rear American Eagles, Solar battery charging. GMCSJ and GMCMI member
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