Sept 14th

The GMC started acting up a little.  It would suddenly lose power and act like it was running out of gas. Since we had an earlier case of a loose electrical connection  on the fuel pump I checked that first.  One of the leads was loose so I tightened it a little – it is a slip-on connector so a little tweaking was all I had to do.  That didn’t fix it so I stopped at an AutoZone and bought and installed a new fuel filter – the large one that goes ahead of the Carter Electric pump from Applied GMC.  That seemed to make a huge difference but did not get it all.  More on that tomorrow.

Dan & Teri

We arrived at Dan and Teri’s house at about 3:30 and were greeted very warmly.  Dan drove me back and forth to the local AutoZone to get a manual heater hose shutoff valve to replace the one that had been leaking since I installed it on the second or third day of this trip.  We had a delicious homemade dinner, met one of their daughters and her family – beautiful kids, the oldest of whom looks just like Dan.  We had an enjoyable evening with lots of GMC and other stories.  We went to bed a little early but we had just crossed a time zone and were a little GMC-lagged.