Daily Archives: May 4, 2016
An Oil Slick Revisited . . .
Things were real quiet at the White household today. Jan woke up with what she called a ‘baby migraine’,so she took a Sumatriptan and then just rested the remainder of the day.
Yesterday when I went into Columbus, I passed the Colorado Country Oil Co-op where we’ve bought diesel several times because the price is usually so good, But not now.
The first part of February this year it got down as low as $1.65 a gallon, but two weeks later it was back up to $1.69. And it’s slowly been climbing ever since. And yesterday, it was up to $1.99, a $.34 gain.
And we saw the same thing last week at the Buc-ee’s in Luling. As we headed from the Lake Conroe TT to Medina Lake TT on Sunday the 24th of April, it was $1.79/gallon. But a week later when we came back to Colorado River and stopped there for coffee, it had jumped up to $1.89.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
I crawled under the rig the other day to check out my slobber tube can. Back in early March, after we traveled from Lake Conroe to Colorado River, I found a heavy oil coating, an oil slick, on our truck after we arrived here.
You can read about it more here. Oil On Truck
After some Googling and investigating, I decided it had blown out of my engine’s oil breather tube, or ‘slobber’ tube.
Apparently many rigs have some sort of catcher or collector to handle this, but mine obviously doesn’t. So I made one.
And you can read about it here. Slobber Can Install
So I wanted to check for any more ‘leakage’. I checked before and found nothing, but it’s been a couple of months so I wanted to look at it again.
And like last time, I found nothing. Rather than remove the can to check like before, this time I just used a twig as a ‘dipstick’. And it was dry
So I still don’t know what really caused this. It’s never done it before or since, and I hadn’t added any oil recently to possibly over-fill it.
So I’ll just have to keep an eye on it.
Thought for the Day:
If you’re shocked by what I say, then you obviously haven’t been paying attention to who I am.
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