Oh Gees - what a day!
Nice to sit at the fire and have a nice cup of coffee with you all - hmm I think I need to top it up with some spirits of somekind and some extra cash.
Spent 2 hours at the garage today - seems the rotors are in need of changing and the rear wheel cylindar is leaking. I know the engine coolant is leaking - but when they pressure checked the system it did not leak - go figure - so nothing can be done at this time - so we will be traveling with engine coolant by our side and have to check it every gas up.
Called around to get the brakes done and wow $500.00 bucks - so instead I order the parts and grovelled to my neighbour friend up the road who is a retired mechanic. He normally does all our work for us but in the Spring and Summer - not the winter. So the TV is spending the night at his place. I even had to get her throught the car wash so that I would not mess up his nice clean garage.
Got the left Signal light going on MoonBeam - just a bit of corrosion - bulb is fine. Last on the list is the brake connection. It is a mystery - can not seem to get a connection registering on the prodigy. Works fine onthe Overlander so we now it is not the TV or the prodigy. So before we start yanking everything on the GT - I think I will pull the break-away pin and see if the brakes are working of the house battery. If they are - then that means we have a good ground and the brake wires are all good. We know the umbilical has continuity - so that would leave the problem being on either the inside trailer terminal - or the outside trailer terminal. What a big pain in the &^% trailer wiring is - any trailer for that matter. - all else fails on that one if the brakes are okay then we will have to hard wire and skip the outside terminal. then sort it out for the PO in the Spring when it is not so you know what cold outside!!!
What to do still - book the hotel rooms, clean the car, leave instrcutions for the parents and get ready for hopefully uneventfull trip. But best of all we can not wait to meet all you Rivettes that can drop in for this "Rivette Rush"
Feet are nice and warm now - but the butt has to stay cold - no time to yank the Yukon seat to test the modular terminal under it. (Personally I think it is just a switch) but then that would not cost as much at the garage right. And this guys thought they were going to soak me today....I had my retired mechanic go over a few things with me first - so I would not sound like I did not know what I was talking about. So they took me right in and showed me everything. But I had to show them where the coolant leak was tee hee.
Made some nachos - help yourselves....I set some chocolate down at the end of the log ...but I have no idea where they have gone now...
