And... we're out!

We got "sprung" from the mothership on Wednesday!

On Wednesday morning, Mike had all the gallons of transfer fluid ready for use...

Evacuating the system - as we understood it -- he had to remove all the old transfer fluid, rinse the system with water, evacuate all the water to ensure all the water was out of the system, and then put the new transfer fluid in and purge all the air.

I had noticed this sign around the shop before, but had not taken time to look at it carefully... this identifies the locations for emergency shelter -- the red areas are the safe places -- in the bottom right are restrooms and a laundry room, to the right is the alignment pit and mechanics room -- in the middle 3 motorhomes are illustrated - and there is a note to the side that indicates "Take cover under a motorhome". That would be an interesting endeavor and would not be my first inclination! But, since the roof could be blown off, I guess that would be safer? Thankfully, we didn't have to implement the instructions!

Last week, we had taken a tour of the Newmar factory on Wednesday. We were disappointed that the Newgle (Newmar Google) demonstration was at the same time as the factory tour, and we had missed it. We had no idea that we would have the opportunity to attend the next Wednesday! We learned how to use Newgle to search for information and documentation on components of our rig.

Mike finished up all the tasks on Gracie, we got the bill and paid, and were on our way by about 12:20pm (eastern time).

We got in to Illinois at about 1:30pm central time (we got an extra hour on the drive!).

We would overall judge the service center visit as "good" -- if we'd gotten out of there on Friday, it would be "GREAT!" We do feel that we had folks working on the rig who were very knowledgeable and that was nice.