Like driving in a movie

We drove from 9am to 4pm today, including stops, and there were absolutely no problems of any kind to report.  It never hesitated all day.  I think I am making progress on solving these problems.

Yesterday Neil and Brenda took me to the Lordco auto parts store in Vernon – a great store.  After our less than pleasant arrival in Vernon (more fuel problems) Jim Kanomata of Applied GMC suggested installing a Felpro 60482 carburetor gasket so Neil and Brenda took me into town to buy it – Lordco actually had the gasket in stock.  This gasket is really thick and it insulates the carburetor from the hot intake manifold which causes vaporizing of the gasoline in the carburetor – a possible cause of our current problems.

The hottest temperature all day today was 10 degrees cooler than the 88 degrees when we arrived in Vernon – the cool air  probably helped.  I know that the gasket was insulating the carburetor because the engine restarted easily after every stop.  Usually it is hard to restart when hot so the gasket is having some effect which probably also helped.

One of the denizens of Hope, BC, Canada

There are other things that I can do to improve the current situation and I plan to do them.  We want the coach to be reliable and there is no reason that it shouldn’t be.

So, along with no problems, the scenery for much of the way was awesome again/still.  Yesterday Neil worked at helping me decide on going back north for a while on BC-97 to connect with the The Trans-Canada highway or going on the Coquiholla highway, a two-hour quicker trip but with at least two climbs that everyone agreed were steep and long.  Based on Neil’s and his brother-in-law’s advice, we took the long but scenic route.  It was not great everywhere but when it was great it was really great.  Carol took some photos out the window and the one at the top is an example of what it was like.

At Dwayne Jacobson’s (a Canadian and fellow GMCer) suggestion we took a break at Hope, BC.  The town is where the Coquihalla River joins the Fraser.  It has a long history with the Hudson Bay Company and claims to be the Chainsaw art capital of at least Canada, the art is all over the town

We arrived in Chilliwack, BC safe and sound.  We are in the parking lot near the Safeway grocery store just off exit 119 of the Trans-Canada.  Using our spiffy external WiFi amplifiers we can use their internet – we did buy more than $30 worth of groceries there tonight so we are not feeling guilty.  We plan to spend the night here before heading into Vancouver (Burnaby) for three nights.  The Safeway people said there are always RVers here and no one cares because the mall is under reconstruction.