Daily Archives: October 26, 2009
Tilting at windmills…
Today started with Jan and I taking our coach down to M & M Fabricators to have our new shocks installed.
We got unhooked and headed out about 8:45 to drop the rig off. Jan followed in the toad. Leaving the rig there, we drove back to the park, stopping off at McDonald’s for a breakfast sandwich.
Back at the park, Jan headed out with Terri in their van to drop off the latest copies of the Gypsy Journal Newsletter at the Post Office, and then run some other errands.
I followed Nick in our toad as he drove his rig over to Phoenix Commercial Painting. The owner, Michelle, was kind enough to let Nick and I use her large garage to work on his coach.
We were trying to swap out the inverter in his new coach with the one in his old coach which is a better one. But it was not to be.
I had thoroughly measured the opening in the new coach and all the measurements said the new inverter would fit, but because the inverter was an odd tapered shape, and the fresh water tank next to where it needed to be mounted was also oddly shaped, the darned thing just wouldn’t quite fit. If we could have got it in though the access door, we could have mounted it. But no luck.
About 2 pm, M & M called and said our coach was ready so Jan and I drove over to pick it up. Driving it back to the park it was easy to tell the new shocks made a difference.
Getting to the garage we ended up spending over eight hours taking the inverters out of both coaches, finding out things wouldn’t fit, and then getting the inverters back into their respective coaches.
All for nothing. But I had fun doing it.
We got it finished up and then all went to Bob Evans Restaurant for a really great meal about 8:30 pm. Arriving back at the coach a early bedtime was in order.
It was a long day…
