The trailer was still there this morning!! After breakfast we headed out to continue our trip to Seaside Oregon. The scenery continued to be stunning, but the roads only allowed us to average 45 MPH, not the 55 I had planned on. Not only were there many tight turns and hills, there were many towns with 25 MPH speed limits.
I am glad that we finished up splitting the trip, as it would have been close to 10 hours in a single go.
We only got a couple of shots in for the blog.
We stopped for lunch in a rest area, and made up a snack in the trailer. When we went back to the truck, the engine started……. then stopped. It would not start again. Yesterday it wouldn’t stop, to day it wouldn’t start!!
Earlier in the day there was a message on the instruments that said to change the fuel filter. I didn’t think the beast would react that quickly, but it got me thinking. Obvious diagnosis was fuel starvation. We had plenty of fuel, but was it being totally blocked by the filter? Remembering back to when I last changed the filter, one of the steps was to fill the filter with diesel using a priming pump on the filter housing. I went out and primed, came back and the engine started …… then stopped. Re-primed the filter with the same result. One more time and bingo, we were up and running! All I can think of was that an air / vapour lock occurred in the fuel feed. The truck ran fine for the rest of the day. Just to be sure I went into town and got a new filter. Luckily changing a fuel filter on the truck requires no tools.
The previously clean trailer was now far from clean at the front, why do bugs have to make such a mess when they fly into the front of the trailer?
After the painfully slow set up of the satellite dish at the last site, this time was ridiculously easy, in fact I had it set up before Lyn could get in position to read off the strength from the TV screen!!