Fixit Time

 

On the 10th we moved into the Jellystone RV Park near Burleson, as it is close to the Camping World where we were scheduled for some repair the next day. Burleson is about 10 miles south of Fort Worth and we've been by there many times on the way to Waco and points south or east.

 

This Jellystone park is really cool. There are more venues for kids here from water slides to fire engine rides and then to adult places like luxury cabins with fireplaces and Jacuzzis ... cool. Below our site was a great level site with a large patio and grass area. While the highway is close by, not bad noise and super management ... $75 for three nights.

 

And the ol guys with one of the metal mustangs highlighted by some fantastic full fall foliage.

We got over to the Camping World at 8am as requested and started the process. We had asked that two things be looked at: a short in the power to the overhead lights, the LP gas detector, the map light, and the outside patio lights. They were also to look at the washer/dryer as it was not completing a full cycle as it should.

When you are looking for a short in the mile of wiring in one of these things it gets complicated and time consuming. They started looking at every wire from the fuse box to the front lights. In the process first they removed the microwave and all the wall material back to the patio light to look for problems.

Over the next six hours they exposed and looked at every wire and connection all the way back to the washer compartment and fuse box; here hanging out of the wall. Also here the washer is running through many cycles to see what it wouldn't do; finally needing a new solenoid or something.

If you look just below the washer in the lighter area, that light is where the furnace used to be as it has also been removed to see where the wires might be pinched from the box forward.

And where the boys are patiently waiting for news from the garage area. Bandit has again proved to be a very good RV and RV waiting room animal. For the seven hours he stayed on his leash and yet occasionally explored the entire showroom and when needed ate, drank, and used his box ... cool guy.

With the result being that the washer part is on order and the electrical short was found in the map light at the very front of the bus at about 4pm ... only $1,200 in exploration to find it.

After that all of us needed a drink, eh.