Woke up to a pleasantly cool morning. Lyn had some laundry to do and I had nothing (specific) to do. We sat around outside for a while enjoying the more reasonable temperature of around 25°C. After lunch we headed off into the Cañon City to look around and do some shopping. We also stopped in at the local railway station to book some tickets on a train trip up the Royal Gorge tomorrow.
Lyn had found a couple of quilt stores on the web, so we took a walk around to find them, but they no longer existed.
I wanted to get some shopping and get the truck fueled up and washed, and Lyn wanted to get her hair cut, so we went our separate ways.
I was going to leave the next bit out, but here it is anyway. Late yesterday afternoon after we had descended the mountain road, a squeak had developed in, I thought, the front left wheel of the truck. I wasn’t sure if it was brakes, wheel bearing or something else. Given the recent issues with the truck, paranoia has well and truly set in so, as we passed a brake shop I made a quick exit from the road onto the forecourt. One of he mechanics took it for a test drive, brought it back and put it on the ramps and checked the bearings. He said he could hear the sound, but like me he wasn’t sure where it was coming from. He took off the left front wheel and checked the rotor and pads, again all was well. He gave me a couple of plausible explanations for the noise, and assured me that all was well, but he’d take the rest of the wheels off and check all the brakes. A good call! The left back inner brake pad had worn right down and was the cause of the noise. I am a little confused as to why this had happened as I changed all 4 rotors and all 8 brake pads not too long ago. Seven of the brake pads were fine, just this one worn right down. It certainly didn’t seem to affect the braking, but it wasn’t doing the rotor any good. Bottom line, two new rear rotors and sets of brake pads. The truck goes in tomorrow while we are on the train, although the shop spent over an hour diagnosing the problem they didn’t charge me for that, and the final bill for the parts and labour was very reasonable with only 45 minute labour for installation.
Back at the trailer the inside temperature had risen to A/C level, so we switched it on for a couple of hours, after about 7 PM the evening starts cooling down enough to switch off the A/C and go to “natural ventilation”
Another outside BBQ and dinner, tonight. Life is good!