Daily Archives: August 22, 2018
Under The Bed . . .
No, not the Bogey Man. Just a big Cummins ISC 350 diesel engine.
With an oil leak.
Yesterday I raised the bed and then the engine cover to take a look at my leak problem. All could I tell from underneath is that it’s leaking on the driver’s side near the slobber tube area.
But looking at it from up above it looks like it could be coming from the oil filter area. Which makes sense since we had the oil/filter changed out before we left on our recent trip. But from below it looked like the leak was behind the oil filter. However now I wonder if that was because the airflow was blowing the oil to the rear.
So now I’m going to see if I can crawl under the rig to take a better look at the filter. It would be nice to find it was just loose. The only problem is whether or not I can get underneath without raising the coach up on the levelers.
Normally if our site is nice and level, like here, I just drop the airbags and don’t worry with the levelers. So we’ll see if I can fit without cranking up and raising up.
Looks like we’ve got our basic itinerary nailed down for our European trip. We’ll leave here April 26th, arrive in Budapest on the 27th. Then after two days there, our cruise leaves on the 29th.
Fifteen days later we arrive in Amsterdam, where we’ll spend two additional days before taking the train to Paris. After four nights there we’ll take the Chunnel train to London for another four nights. Then finishing up, we’ll fly home on the May 23rd making it a 28 day trip. Yowza!
Tomorrow is probably going to be an errand day, hopefully with lunch at East Star Chinese Buffet.
Thought for the Day:
When I first went to work at age 13 my tax return consisted of a single IBM data card with the instructions on one side and a few lines to fill out on the other side. Each year since then Congress has simplified it into 35,000 pages.
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