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6/26/2020

Click the pic..... You may see something you've never seen before..... or want to ever again.

I felt the need for a pretty picture. Since I'm in an industrial area there's not a whole lot of natural beauty here. So this picture is from my visit to Wickenburg Arizona which seems like eons ago but it's only been a few months. How quickly our world can change.

Not much has changed in my current situation. No one has looked at my truck yet, with the apparent reason being there extremely busy here. Vehicles are coming in for repairs, but I don't see many going out. I guess that makes sense because it's a lot quicker and easier to bring a broken vehicle in here than to figure out what's wrong with it, get the parts, fix it and test it.

Thinking they might be going to pull my truck into a garage today, I unhooked the Arctic Fox from the truck. The problem was with my Andersen hitch I had to jack the trailer up about 6 inches or so to clear the ball in the truck. Then under normal conditions, I would drive the truck out from under the trailer part of the hitch and electrically lower the Arctic Fox, til it's level fore and aft.

But since the truck won't start, I can't move it, so the trailer sat much more nose-high than usual, so my refrigerator was barely working, and I couldn't get it down below 45°. This morning I lowered the Arctic Fox back down on the ball. That leveled things out to normal, and the refrigerator started cooling again.

Lucky for me since I'm boondocking, it was a cloudy day today. The temperature topped out at about 85°, which made the un-air-conditioned Arctic Fox a lot more bearable with just the Windows open, my floor fan going, and all three vent fans taking out the hot air.

I've got some neighbors. It looks like a middle-aged couple in a very nice, newish looking class "A" that's backed in across the driveway from me. I don't know what they're in for or how long they've been here, but it's long enough that they've been given a gate key to drive their toad in and out of here after the gate is closed and locked at 5:30. I sure hope I'm not here long enough to require a gate key.

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A repair shop sundown. Not exactly a spectacular desert sunset but you can't expect much in a crowded big town.

I stuck my head out the door of the Arctic Fox and took this picture of a loaded semi-truck being towed in. Looks like I'm not the only one to suffer the indignity of being unable to move under my own power.

6 Comments

Judith

6/26/2020 08:53:44 pm

Ah geez. And that's putting it mildly.
Boondocking at the diesel shop.
I think I do see some mountain tops peeking up in the sunset photo.
Hope you are out of purgatory soon.

Tom

6/26/2020 09:41:02 pm

Thank you Judith. Yes Santa Fe is at the foot of a lot of the mountains around here. But with no transportation I'm pretty well confined to the repair shop. But that's okay because boondockers truly are at home wherever their at. So as long as I'm in the Arctic Fox... I'm at home.

But even though my locations are very important to me I still try to be happy wherever I happen to be, and being around good people helps out a lot. The folks around here been very helpful and kind to me. And since they're good at what they do I've felt relaxed here because I know they're going to get me on the road again.

Tom

Linda

6/27/2020 02:34:18 pm

Once you close the curtains at night, all places look the same. Now, if they just sounded the same. :)

6/27/2020 07:47:13 pm

That's very true Linda, it always looks the same inside the Arctic Fox and will probably stay that way because I have no desire to shuffle things around.

Yeah the outside noise bothers a lot of folks. It's hard to believe people driving down the interstate can make as much noise as they do when you're sleeping 100 feet away from it. But I'm fortunate, my hearing is not that great, the Arctic Fox is well insulated and has double pane windows, and noise doesn't keep me from sleeping...... now generators? Don't get me started on generators.

Darrell

6/27/2020 04:27:46 pm

My Ford did that exact thing a few years ago,,, went into limp mode then shut down. Turned out to be the wiring harness connection under the dash. Ford stupidly placed the connection onto the Parking Brake plate. Every time I released the brake, the jolt vibrated the connection. Eventually, that vibration would randomly disconnect one or more of the pins in the connection. Once it was discovered, dialectic grease was put in the connection and snapped back tight. The dealership said they legally couldn't remove it from the brake plate, but I did and suspended it using some zip ties so it wasn't attached to the plate. No problem since. I asked about the connection and they said it was necessary so when and if the cab needed to be removed to work on the diesel engine (mine's gas), the wiring harness could be disconnected in one spot. The mistake was attaching it to the emergency brake. I'm not sure what brand truck you have but it may be worth checking out.

6/27/2020 07:41:51 pm

Great to hear from you Darrell. I hope you and your family are doing well.

Ford has always had a better idea, and quality was job one. But despite the fact that brands of vehicles are just about the same I've owned General Motors cars and trucks for a long time. I'm not sure why. When it comes to pulling trailers I think I see more Dodge ram's and Ford's than I do Chevys. But since I've mostly used a truck as my daily driver I've always found Chevys really comfortable.

Thanks for the suggestion. The scariest problems to me are electric problems. Their usually easy to fix but often very difficult to track down, and my skills are not focused in that area, or any area for that matter..

Tom

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