KELLY SITS ON THE SIDE OF SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN NEAR APACHE JUNCTION ARIZONA FIELDING A WORK CALL FROM ONTARIO CANADA
Was unable to readily locate my Kofa Mountain pics so tonight’s photos are from a hike up Superstition Mountain near Apache Junction Arizona….. March 2010
MET THESE FOLKS ON THE TRAIL
Well, this was the day we had originally planned to be on the road but here I sit in my recliner with my Toshiba on my lap watching it rain. And, that is all I am going to say about that!!!!
OUR QUIET TREK WAS SUDDENLY OVERRUN BY A HIKING CLUB
Didn’t get myself off to a good start this morning. Figured I’d slip out, fire up the rig & give the hydraulic levelers a test run. Engine on, gearshift in park, emergency brake on, slides in & side door closed. Reached down beside my seat & pressed the ‘on’ button........nothing!!!! No power to the box again, stone dead. Ron replaced the solenoid switch a month ago & had the levelers working fine (except for one sticky one) & the guys at Carrier Truck this week had the levelers down while they did the brake recall work. So, why wouldn’t they work for me this morning. Well, that’s just the way it is with me & mechanical things. I was even kind of heartened in a way when Kelly couldn’t get them to work. That suggests a mechanical problem instead of the usual AL problem. I have never liked or trusted those leveler things on Class A’s but that’s just the way it is with them. I guess we’re back to using boards under the tires again. Since we got that coach it has been those levelers that have caused me more grief than everything else put together. Other than those troublesome things the rig has been just fine & we have been happy with it.
Noticed this morning we have two new blog followers & by golly, I recognized both of them right away. Jan is from right here in Bayfield & I think he is the only blog supporter we have in our own home town. As many RV bloggers have found out, it is generally an RV’ers own family & non RVing friends who seem the least interested in their blogging travels. I also think it is one of the reasons the RV blogging community has formed into the tight knit community it is. Thanks for your support Jan. Much appreciated by The Bayfield Bunch.
IT’S A ROCKY PATH ALL THE WAY
Our latest blog supporter Ellie I recognized from JUSTRAVELIN. We met Ellie & husband Jim last winter near Quartzsite, Arizona. Kelly & I were camped in the Kofa Mountains when I noticed on the computer there were a number of fellow RV bloggers who we were in touch with scattered about in the surrounding area. Although we are not the most sociable couple on the planet I did think it might be kinda nice if everyone could get together to meet each other. We seemed to be centrally located so I sent out an email to everyone & a few days later a number of RV folks rolled into our boondocking site for a little get together. Ellie & Jim from Justravelin and Mike & Jana from TIN TEEPEE/LOG CABIN came down from Bouse where they were boondocking together. Froggi Donna & Stu from 2 TAKING A FIFTH came up from Yuma while MOTTY & PATTI drove in from Blyth, California. We had previously met Motty & Patti at the ranch near McNeal Az. Another couple, Peter & Patty rolled in from Quartzsite. I had met Peter the year before when he came rumbling up to our boondocking site south of Quartzsite on his ATV. He had been following our blog, knew we were in the area & came looking for us. So Ellie, thanks for your blog support & thanks for stirring up some nice memories from last winter. For the blog & pics of that day go here…KOFA MOUNTAINS GET TOGETHER
CHECKING MY DELORME P-40 FOR ELEVATION
IT’S KELLY COMING DOWN OFF THE MOUNTAIN
GROANER’S CORNER 
A Sunday school teacher asked her little children, as they were on the way to church service, "And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?" One bright little girl replied, "Because people are sleeping.”
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Do any levelers work properly all the time? I seem to read about a lot of problems with them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for you info on the levelers. I know two guys with new big pushers who have been stranded by their levelers and after many trips to the shop, the gremlin still comes back.
ReplyDeleteMy old rig does not have them. I will be content with my old beast and get another one like it when this one dies. Simple 30 foot gas burner.
Looking forward to you getting on the road.
I am sure it will be no comfort, but this summer I was attending a seminar put on by the company that produced the levelers on my coach-HWH. He made the tactical error of asking if anyone in the room had any problems with their levelers. Virtually everyone in the room raised their hand and the crowd burst into laughter.
ReplyDeleteCheck the fuses and circuit breakers, your brake fellows probably burned them out. The whole thing shouldn't be dead!
ReplyDeleteThat's too bad about those levelers. Looks like the gremlins have moved east for a bit.
ReplyDeleteThe good news is you're only a few weeks from lift-off!
I really like the hydraulic levelers....when they work! :)
ReplyDeleteOur levelers have always come up & down ok but they don't always level correctly. Guess it's always something.
ReplyDeleteThe new to us Country Coach has no levelers--it levels itself with air bags and you know, we kind of like that. We will see how much we like it after spending the winter in the rig.
ReplyDeleteOhhh hope you get them levelers figured out. Nothing can be more irritating than something that works sometimes and not others. Arggghhh
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Karen and Steve
(Our Blog) RVing: Small House... BIG Backyard
http://kareninthewoods-kareninthewoods.blogspot.com/
Ohhh hope you get them levelers figured out. Nothing can be more irritating than something that works sometimes and not others. Arggghhh
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Karen and Steve
(Our Blog) RVing: Small House... BIG Backyard
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Ohhh hope you get them levelers figured out. Nothing can be more irritating than something that works sometimes and not others. Arggghhh
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Karen and Steve
(Our Blog) RVing: Small House... BIG Backyard
http://kareninthewoods-kareninthewoods.blogspot.com/
I guess we'll stick with the hand levelers for now...Dennis does bring a battery powered drill to use for the back levelers..kinda like hydralic..well, sorta....
ReplyDeleteAl, I love your pictures of the Kofa Mountains. One of your pictures looks like a paining. Everyone that sees it thinks it is a painting. Thanks for posting more of them. We hope to meet you and Kelly one of these days when we hit the open road. My hubby is from Calgary and we now live in the states.
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ReplyDeleteMy previous MH was on a WH chassis and every once and a while the levelers wouldn't work. I found a little switch up high on the parking brake pedal (mine was white) with a single wire on it. The switch is supposed to ground when you push the p brake pedal down. Corrosion can mess up the switch, who knows how long your chassis sat out in the open before the body was put on it.
The switch cost about $8 and is held on by one litte screw, a two minute job.
A work around in an emergency is to make a jumper wire and attach one end to the screw the holds th switch to the pedal and the other end to a good ground.
Good luck, hope this solves your problem.