wdk450
Well-known member
Hi there!
I started out heading East from Sacramento about 3 hours later than I planned (as usual). I can be thankful that the cat co-operated somewhat and let me pick her up and put her in her travel cage. Last weekend I just had to leave her home after she hid in corners or under/behind furniture. Efforts to get her out then included using a broom to prod her out, and she put up a good catfight.
I got over the Sierras OK, and still had more than a 1/2 tank of fuel going through Reno. I decided to have a pitstop in Fernley, about 30 miles east of Reno, and looking down at my guages I saw that I was on empty and the low fuel light was on. I didn't see a trail of fuel behind me, and the guage came back up driving in town. Great - a flaky fuel guage while I drive 350 more miles through the barren great basin. I used the MPG readout and my percieved "good" fuel readings to project my driving range, giving myself a lot of extra margin. I might have to live with this throughout the trip.
I finally got into Wells at about 7pm, and finally got into an RV space. I needed to dump so I could make a quick getaway in the morning. I noticed the fresh water supply pressure seemed a little high, but connected up the black tank flusher as usual. I went over by the door and heard a gushing sound inside. The flusher had come apart inside the wall. I turned it off and cleaned up the water in the kitchen. I looked at my 12 volt guage and saw the convertor didn't seem to be working - The convertor had been sprayed by the water. I had to crawl into the basement rats nest and get the convertor out. It has a blown internal fuse, but bypassing that with a jumper just caused a lot of smoke. No one was open here by then who might have had a battery charger. I hope to get a new convertor ($219) (and backup battery charger) in Idaho today on my way to West Yellowstone.
I started out heading East from Sacramento about 3 hours later than I planned (as usual). I can be thankful that the cat co-operated somewhat and let me pick her up and put her in her travel cage. Last weekend I just had to leave her home after she hid in corners or under/behind furniture. Efforts to get her out then included using a broom to prod her out, and she put up a good catfight.
I got over the Sierras OK, and still had more than a 1/2 tank of fuel going through Reno. I decided to have a pitstop in Fernley, about 30 miles east of Reno, and looking down at my guages I saw that I was on empty and the low fuel light was on. I didn't see a trail of fuel behind me, and the guage came back up driving in town. Great - a flaky fuel guage while I drive 350 more miles through the barren great basin. I used the MPG readout and my percieved "good" fuel readings to project my driving range, giving myself a lot of extra margin. I might have to live with this throughout the trip.
I finally got into Wells at about 7pm, and finally got into an RV space. I needed to dump so I could make a quick getaway in the morning. I noticed the fresh water supply pressure seemed a little high, but connected up the black tank flusher as usual. I went over by the door and heard a gushing sound inside. The flusher had come apart inside the wall. I turned it off and cleaned up the water in the kitchen. I looked at my 12 volt guage and saw the convertor didn't seem to be working - The convertor had been sprayed by the water. I had to crawl into the basement rats nest and get the convertor out. It has a blown internal fuse, but bypassing that with a jumper just caused a lot of smoke. No one was open here by then who might have had a battery charger. I hope to get a new convertor ($219) (and backup battery charger) in Idaho today on my way to West Yellowstone.
