Monthly Archives: September 2019
Run, Run, Vrooom . . .
Tomorrow I plan on crawling under the rig and pulling the rig’s oil filter and then the oil filter head adapter so I can replace the gasket that I hope has been causing my reoccurring oil leak.
It looks to be fairly easy, just drop the oil filter, which I’ve done below, then remove the two cap screws that holds the adapter in place. and pull it. While I’ve got it off I’ll also clean off the residual crud that’s inside where the oil filter mates with the adapter.
I’ll probably have to scrape off the old gasket, then replace it with the new one,
and then put it all back together.
At this point in the past when I’ve replaced the filter trying to fix this leak, we’ve taken the rig out for a 50 mile or so test drive, but the leak never occurred.
That only seemed to happen as soon as we hit the road on a trip. So this time I’ll just run the engine at high-idle for 30 minutes or so to check for regular leaks.
But before I can do any of this I need to bring the rig up on the levelers to give me enough room to get under the rig. When we’re going to be parked for a while, and we’re pretty level, I don’t put the levelers down.
So this afternoon I had to dig out my leveler pads, put them in place, and then lower the levelers, But to do that I had to crank up the engine. So it was very reassuring that when I turned the key, the engine went Run, Run, Vrooom!
It only turned over for a couple of seconds before it caught, and never stumbled. Very nice since it’s been about 5 months since I last ran the engine.
It only took me about 10 minutes to get the levelers down and the rig raised high enough room for easy access for tomorrow.
Then about 2pm Jan and I headed out for lunch at Los Ramirez Mexican Restaurant. They were really busy, busier than we’ve ever seen. And apparently busier than they have expected to be, since they were short-handed and it took us a good while to get our food.
We were both able to stay Keto, Jan getting her usual Pechuga Rellena,
with a Grilled Chicken Breast, Grilled Shrimp, and Broccoli, all covered in Cheese.
I got my usual Beef Fajita Taco Salad with Queso,
staying Keto by not eating the taco shell as I usually would.
All really good.
Thought For The Day:
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell
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Cake and Keto . . .
Yesterday afternoon Jan and I got together at King Food with our long-time friend’s Bob and Maria Sutton.
We’ve known them since the mid-80’s when we met over Commodore Amigas at a local computer store.Jan and I stayed Keto with KF’s Chicken with Hot Garlic Sauce,
and the Broccoli and Hot Garlic Sauce.
And of course, a bowl of their Hot and Sour Soup
It’s been a while since we’ve gotten together, and we need to do it more often.
This morning I went outside and added a 2nd magnet to the top outside passenger side solar screen on the rig. For some reason that’s the only one that seems to come loose occasionally during wind and rain. So this should take care of it.
This afternoon Jan and I headed out about 1pm to have lunch once again at our new favorite Black Bear Diner. And we both had our new favorite meals, Jan’s Big Burger with Avocado, no bun. And a Dinner Salad for the side.
I had my same New York Steak and Eggs, also with a Dinner Salad instead of the Fruit and English Muffin.
Unfortunately I left my phone at home, so no photos.
After we got home our daughter Brandi sent over a couple of photos for me to play with.
The first one is of Landon, his best friend Sophie, and Landon’s dog, Baxter. The second one is of Sophie’s dog, Dakota. Unfortunately Dakota was ill and had to be put down recently.
Landon and Sophie are having a birthday party together this coming Saturday, so Brandi wanted me to combine the two photos to put on their birthday cake.
So this was the first pass.
Then I cropped the result down a little tighter.
Finally I eliminated the background leaving just this part.
I’ll be looking forward to seeing how it looks on the cake.
Thought For The Day:
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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