Friday, July 9, 2010

Remember what I said about what Ron said about the levelers? Well, when we first drove into the fairgrounds, we parked next to the Rinehimers. We were a bit unlevel on the grass, so we deployed the levelers. Well, the rear ones went down before the front ones & started leveling right away, something they are not supposed to do. They went up & up & the rear tires started coming up off the grass. We're thinking, that doesn't look good & all of a sudden, we heard a thunk and then the rear tires slowly went back to earth. We think, but, are not sure, that the weld on the drivers side leveler broke, so we decided to pull them back up & relocate. But, while they were retracting, the rear ones got tangled up with each other & we had to stop the whole process & do them manually one at a time. So, now the driver's side rear is pretty bent & we'll have to go back & have them fix it after the rally.

Ron has already found out that a fellow bus member that has a bus like ours, successfully welded his levelers on each side of the coach behind the tires, just like we wanted the company to do in the first place. If it had been that way, it probably wouldn't have happened. Ron is going to find out where he welded them on at & take the rig back to Big Foot & have them do the same thing. In the meantime, the front ones do still work....

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