{"id":80,"date":"2007-09-06T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T00:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:19:43","slug":"from-the-motorhome-repair-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/09\/from-the-motorhome-repair-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"from the motorhome repair shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep07\/ShopWorking350227.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Working\" height=\"227\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 227px\" title=\"Working\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, today&#8217;s post comes from the motorhome repair shop.\u00a0 I did write a draft there although am posting from my home office.<\/p>\n<p>The service writers and staff at Loren&#8217;s Auto Repair are used to me bringing my computer and today offered me a desk!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve downloaded PDF&#8217;s for them while there so I guess got semi-official status today.\u00a0 I had a quiet corner, my iPod, a good cell signal for my aircard so work as normal.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the good news&#8230; I was there in the first place because when I went to run the jacks down prior to some final trip preps they were not working.\u00a0 Slide rooms work fine so the new electric motor is fine.\u00a0 I checked everything I knew how to check.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep07\/Shop250191.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Shop\" height=\"191\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 191px\" title=\"Shop\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The shop got them working but not by a method I was willing to go home with.\u00a0 After checking all power to and from the switch they started thumping things and then the jacks worked.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not up to writing the entire ugly scenario but by end of the day it was determined that the problem is a pump relay &#8211; the relay that sends power to one of the room solenoids or the jack solenoids.\u00a0 Hopefully they will find one tomorrow and get it replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, I cancelled the trip &#8211; I&#8217;ve now spent a day and a 1\/2 of time and not sure about the $$ and it just put me over the top with the motor, transmission service and playing catchup with work.\u00a0 Disappointing but part of the RV thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wild Thing&#8221;&#8230;spending the night away from home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep07\/ShopMotorhome.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Motorhome\" height=\"215\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 215px\" title=\"Motorhome\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, today&#8217;s post comes from the motorhome repair shop.\u00a0 I did write a draft there although am posting from my home office. The service writers and staff at Loren&#8217;s Auto Repair are used to me bringing my computer and today offered me a desk!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve downloaded PDF&#8217;s for them while there so I guess got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-notes","category-rv-trips"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22505,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/22505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}