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Not so fast there, buddy

Posted by on May 19, 2020

It is now 2:27pm, about 3 hours after I intended to leave Ft Myers on the first leg of the TN6. But the truck is still in the shop. The good news is that the dealer says it will be fixed tomorrow, probably in time to make that first hop. I certainly hope so as I have told the first RV park that we will be a day late and am about to tell the second one that our stay will be just one night instead of two. If we get the truck back in time to make that first hop tomorrow, those will be the only schedule adjustments that I will need to make.

The bad news? Estimated cost: $2300. That is about 5x more than I expected. My assessment that it would be cheap and easy to fix was wildly off the mark. Besides replacing the fuel cooler (dealer cost: about $350 which is just double the Amazon price, which is not unreasonable), I also need to replace three fuel lines, each about $300. That price shocks me, but I have no way to gauge if it is out of line. Too late now as they are busy at work ripping out the old lines.

Piece by piece I am building a new truck.

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