New Toy

Today, Bob picked up the Fleetwood Excursion that we went 50/50 on in an internet auction. Sound kind of risky buying something so big on-line, but the place that it was located was right next to where I work. One of our managers at work had already bought a couple items from them and the financing places had heard about them, so we didn't feel like it was scam. I was able to spend a couple hours on it over the course of 3-4 visits before we put in our bids. It needs a good detailing, but we were pretty excited.

Bob stopped by office with it after picking it up. A large shadow came over my office, I looked up, saw the cause and ran outside excited. Due to the low back end (and being on a slight hill, he couldn't back it out when he went to leave, so we opened the gate and he drove into the plant to turn around.

Just a couple of minutes after leaving the plant, Bob called. I thought, "This isn't good as he's not to the gas station yet" and I didn't think he would call while driving. When I answered my phone, he told me that the engine died. Oh no! We wondered if it was almost out of diesel, but the tank did say it had 1/8 left. I called our Caterpillar rep from work to see if he had any ideas why it died. He said he would stop by. While we waited, I went off to get two 5 gallon canisters with diesel. By the time I got back the RV, the guys had discovered that the fuel filter was loose (almost to the point of falling off). It was filled with diesel and replaced. Then the water separator was filled with diesel (it too was empty). Bob tried the engine...nothing. We waited a loooong five minutes, then Bob tried it again and it slowly started kicking into all cylinders. What a relief...we didn't just buy a lemon after all!!! Bob topped up the 90 gallon tank with 60 gallons of diesel.