{"id":1076,"date":"2011-08-31T20:06:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T03:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2011-08-31T20:23:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T03:23:19","slug":"progress-and-a-nice-uneventful-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2011\/08\/31\/progress-and-a-nice-uneventful-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress! and a nice, uneventful drive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Like driving in a movie<\/p><\/div>\n

We drove from 9am to 4pm today, including stops, and there were absolutely no problems of any kind to report.\u00a0 It never hesitated all day.\u00a0 I think I am making progress on solving these problems.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Neil and Brenda took me to the Lordco auto parts store in Vernon – a great store.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The hottest temperature all day today was 10 degrees cooler than the 88 degrees when we arrived in Vernon – the cool air\u00a0 probably helped.\u00a0 I know that the gasket was insulating the carburetor because the engine restarted easily after every stop.\u00a0 Usually it is hard to restart when hot so the gasket is having some effect which probably also helped.<\/p>\n

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One of the denizens of Hope, BC, Canada<\/p><\/div>\n

There are other things that I can do to improve the current situation and I plan to do them.\u00a0 We want the coach to be reliable and there is no reason that it shouldn’t be.<\/p>\n

So, along with no problems, the scenery for much of the way was awesome again\/still.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Based on Neil’s and his brother-in-law’s advice, we took the long but scenic route.\u00a0 It was not great everywhere but when it was great it was really great.\u00a0 Carol took some photos out the window and the one at the top is an example of what it was like.<\/p>\n

At Dwayne Jacobson’s (a Canadian and fellow GMCer) suggestion we took a break at Hope, BC.\u00a0 The town is where the Coquihalla River joins the Fraser.\u00a0 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<\/p>\n

We arrived in Chilliwack, BC safe and sound.\u00a0 We are in the parking lot near the Safeway grocery store just off exit 119 of the Trans-Canada.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We plan to spend the night here before heading into Vancouver (Burnaby) for three nights.\u00a0 The Safeway people said there are always RVers here and no one cares because the mall is under reconstruction.<\/p>\n

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We drove from 9am to 4pm today, including stops, and there were absolutely no problems of any kind to report.\u00a0 It never hesitated all day.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 After our […]<\/p>\n

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