Day 3 at the Mothership

Friday was our third day at the "mothership", and the original communication to us indicated that we should be done in 3 days. Mike came to get Gracie at about 6am...

... he had let us know near the end of day on Thursday that he thought he had found the source of the problem on our Oasis (hydronic heating) system -- there was a wire that was corroded and looked as if it had gotten hot enough to melt the covering off. He needed to find out why that occurred -- so he was digging further into the Oasis system on Friday. *Nothing* in these rigs is easy to access or work on... so he was having to work around in a very tight area. He also had tested the pH of the transfer fluid in the system and found that it was not within specs - we had originally asked for a complete system flush, so he was checking to make sure that was actually needed, and the pH said that it was needed - so he had that scheduled to be completed too. He let us know by early afternoon, that he wasn't going to be able to complete all of the work on Friday, so we'd need to stay over until Monday.

We had been taking Miss Kitty back and forth from the pet lounge to the Jeep -- it was cooler on Friday, and not very sunny, so we felt that she could stay in the Jeep safely and have continuous access to her food, water, and litter pan...

...that meant that we could stay in the regular customer lounge (no pets allowed).

It was quite nice...

...nice big windows looking out front to where the "campground" was located, so we could see when Gracie was being returned to her site.

Our nextdoor neighbors in the campground had a newer coach than Gracie (almost *every* coach in the campground is newer than Gracie -- there is one 2005, but we're the next oldest at 2012 -- almost all of the others are here getting warranty service - so within 1 year of purchase!) -- anyway, Carl asked if he could see how that plastic guide was installed on his bay doors and he took a few pictures...

Plastic guide that directs the latch to the catch --

It is interesting because on his coach, these are installed in two different ways -- in this picture, this one has the big block-y part installed "high" and the guide on the outside of the latch (toward the open edge of the door)...

... on this door, the guide is behind the plastic cover, but it is installed with the big block-y part installed low and the guide on the inside of the latch (away from the open edge of the door).

Carl thinks that these will make our doors and latches more stable. We are always concerned, particularly if we go through an area where the body flexes (like diagonally across railroad tracks or the entrance to a fuel station) that one or more bay doors may come open -- they have done so in the past. This would give us more peace of mind. A task for the future...