In April 2007 we had sold our home in Michigan and moved into our new fifth wheel trailer to start our adventure of full timing and exploring in our RV. We started our blog so family and friends can track us and see what we are up to. You can double clink any picture to enlarge it.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Busted truck & holed up in Herrin, IL




Notice anything missing the the photos? Our truck. During the rally I noticed the slight smell of diesel and found the coolant had oil in it. Yesterday the Ford dealer in Carbondale, IL said there was oil leaking at the rear of the engine that might require the removal on the cab, in addition to oil in the coolant. We pulled our trailer 25 miles south to a full hookup CG and dropped the truck off at the dealer. We are driving a rented Focus for the next two weeks until we get our truck back. Do you know how much room there isn't inside a Focus compared to a one ton dually crew cab? We drove by the dealer today and saw our truck inside being worked on. I'm optimistic the dealer will do a good job. I met the full timer a few sites from us at the CG, he's the retired service manager from the Ford dealer! He also gave me comfort that our truck should be well taken care of. At least this failure happened at a time and place that isn't going to cause us much of a problem. Guess we'll explore southern IL more than we had planned.