The arch is what's left from the original courthouse that burned down; a picture of downtown Graham.

These last pics were in front of the old Post Office Museum and Art Center in downtown Graham. They depict early cowboy life in west Texas. The museum was closed, much to our disappointment and we never got around to going back, but, it would have been interesting to learn about life back in the 1800's. Guess it will have to wait until our next visit to the area....

A metal cowboy sitting by his fire, cooking his coffee, with his saddelbags nearby

As I was saying, the wire broke off, rubbed against the fuel tube, aka fuel injectors, and diesel fuel was spewing out right into the oil that was inside. Yes, believe it or not, (ladies, especially), when the head is on, oil flows through that whole area and then drains through small holes to get into the rest of the engine. Needless to say, the diesel was getting down there, too....anyway, Ron & Troyce took the tube out and tried to find a replacement. Well, they couldn't find one, so went to a brazier who welded it up and made sure it could handle the pressure before putting it back on. Ask Ron about that, I'm just getting it second hand and don't remember exactly what he said about it and I can't ask him right now because he went to bed. What Ron also found was that little wire had something to do with the Jake brake, again, can't remember exactly what he said, but, fixing it fixed the Jake so it would work a lot better than it has been.

They also found a hose that was leaking fuel, so fixed that, installed a new ignition switch and a few other things that needed attention. So, we are all fixed up and I'm sure Ron learned some additional things about his diesel engine that he can check on when something goes wrong. The best news was that after we had gone about 100 miles today, we stopped and Ron checked the oil and it was right where it was supposed to be, plus there was no spewing of oil all over the windshield and hood of the car!

This is what it looks like with the top off. See that blue wire? It was broken off and was rubbing against the fuel tube and wore a hole right through

This is showing the head gasket on

Their work area out in the yard, thank goodness it was nice weather