Hi friends. It’s not all fun times on the road. 45 minutes into our trip to Needles, CA the truck indicators said the battery wasn’t working. We spied a Shell station and planned to pull over when the truck lost power right in front of this Shell station. Vic was barely able to steer it onto the very large apron in front of the gas station. Talk about extremely scary!
A local woman was very helpful with an offer to call a mechanic she knows. By then Vic had figured out it was the alternator (from talking to his brother Ralph who knows just about everything to do with cars and trucks). Vic knew what part he needed and the woman offered to take him to a store nearby and get the part. Can you believe some people? The mechanic showed up and couldn’t fix it so the truck got towed and we are sitting here overnight. What needs to be replaced is the tension pulley for the fan belt.
The truck will be ready tomorrow and we will be on our way again. The local people have been so nice. We feel so fortunate we ended up here, a safe place with help nearby.
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oh no that is not good news but glad you are able to get truck fixed so quickly. Nice to know good people still exist.
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It really is. The first mechanic wouldn’t accept any $, said I didn’t fix it so you don’t owe me anything. The second mechanic is charging us $400. Can’t help but guess it would be $600 at least regularly.
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