Yahoo! We are here....in Red Bay, Alabama ....the mothership of our RV. Our mobile house was built here in 2008. We have returned to this Mecca on previous occasions to have it worked on. This is our fourth visit. We are very familiar with the of the area and what to do and see to keep ourselves entertained while the old gal gets a work over. We arrived around noon from Tuscaloosa. Fortunately, we found one last open site at the campground we have stayed at before: Convenient Camping. It is located close to everything we need to access. Looks like all the many campgrounds in the area are full......lots of work needing to be done on Tiffin Motor Homes.
Our work will begin on Monday at Bay Diesel. Here they will check everything on the chassis. Cory is going to have them change every clamp underneath our RV......as you read further along, you will understand why. Oh, God! Read fast to get there. He will have them change our fluids also.
On Tuesday, we have a to our site to fix our one bedroom slideout. Art and Cory fixed it at Tropical Palms but now
it wont go out again. Hopefully, Brent will get it resolved. We can still use our bedroom as the other slideout works but it is tight and tricky to get around the bed. We have to get it fixed cause I cant get to my washing machine (which needs to be replaced).....thats for another day. One of these days will take us to the here in Red Bay. Our toppers (awnings that go over the four slide outs)need replacing. Maybe they just need tightening but not sure until we have the men look at them. I have more items on our wish list. Well just see what really needs doing and when we can get someone to do it. Plus, if parts are needed....how quickly we can get them. We cant use Red Bays service center anymore cause our rig is too old and not under warranty. There are many folks that used to work at Red Bay and have branched out on their own who now do work on RVs. These are the people we go to. They are very good with what they do.
unexpected stoppage along this journey. Cory and I on how well the RV was doing as we sailed along on the Highway. We spoke too soon! On the other side of Montgomery, AL., in a tiny area called Prattsville (appropriate: PRAT...idiot or a butt!), the bells and whistles went off in the RV.....noooooooooo! Yup! Dash was reading low coolant...check engine and the dial went HOT! Cory pulled us over in a somewhat treacherous spot but adequate for the necessity. Rats! Weve had this very same issue on several occasions which we have had repaired. Rats! As Cory stepped out of the RV, my heart sank when he said Oh, Sh_t....all the coolant is pouring out of the back end! Yup.....it was....all over the dirty ground. Lulu fainted. She does poorly with stress. I got out with Cory as we stumbled along to the back of the RV. Crap! I was trying to figure out how a tow truck could back up to us....we werent in the best of locations....right on the grassy dirt side of a busy road. Yessiree....definitely a low coolant problem....more like NO coolant now. Cory got down to look under our broken bus. He noted
that the hose and down from the coolant reservoir separated. He said he thought he could fix it.....what? ......do you think so? You mean maybe we dont need a tow truck and $$$ repairs? So, he sauntered around to one of got out his trusty tool box and his Dave overalls and was ready to go to work. Wow! Mr.Mechanic! But first, he had to buy some supplies. Fortunately, there was an auto parts store several yards away. He trotted off to get a clamp and coolant (antifreeze). Lulu and I watched as he made his way over the grassy field and knoll. My hero. Back he came with a man carrying a big box.....full of containers of coolant. Cory told the man he could look under the RV at our problem if he wanted....I actually said he could fix it, too, if he wanted ($$). Nope....he wasnt interested but he pulled a nasty, rusty, broken clamp off the hose.
