Feb. 8-9, 2012 – Tires, more Freightliner and home

We left Corpus Christi on Wednesday, saying goodbye to Vic and Mo until this summer, and drove to TCI in San Antonio for 2 new front tires for the motorhome.  It took about an hour to install them and we then drove the 14 miles to Freightliner of San Antonio.  The service manager had kept a parking spot for us with 50A electric and we pulled in there for the night.  Meanwhile, TCI called and said they had installed the wrong valve cores, not the ones for the Equal balancing powder, and asked us to stop there on our way home the next day.  However, the next morning the left front tire was flat, so I reinflated it and installed the Pressure Pro sensor and watched it go from 90 psi to 70 psi in about 20 minutes.  I call TCI and said we were not driving there (14 miles) with that bad a leak, so they sent a truck to us at Freightliner.  It was a major leak around the bead, so the tech broke the tire from the wheel, cleaned the wheel and bead, reinflated the tire and remounted it.  End of leak, and he also installed the Equal valve cores.

Thursday they pulled the coach into the shop where we had a chassis lube, radiator cleaning, new fuel filters, right front shock remounted as it had come unscrewed from the lower mount.  Also had the generator serviced.  No oil change as that was done in Oct. when the fuel injectors were replaced.  They checked a few things that I had been told to watch during previous maintenance.  All that and we were out of there by 4:00pm and home by 5:00pm.

We plan on staying here until May, when we’ll head for Milwaukee.