Thanks to Ernie/Spare stuff to carry

[Terry Neal]

Hi Shane,



Was real nice to meet you & Kelly in Livingston. We all sure
enjoyed your brisket. Now I see why your nickname is so well earned!.
Kellie & Katie said they had a fun time at the Sweet Pea festival
with your Kelly. Katie says to tell her thanks again for the T shirt.
Kellie & Katie went to Yellowstone today with Katie's boyfriend
from Indiana.



Sounds like you've had a good trip back home with no real major
problems. How was Grand Teton & Jackson? I imagine that the
traffic was probably a real bear.



Thanks again for all the fine food & the visit. Kellie said she
would write down the cookie recipe & send it to your Kelly.

Terry Neal

Bozeman, MT

82PT40 6V92TA

74FC34 6V53T











sfedeli3 wrote:







We're just wrapping up our 5K mile trip from Hershey out to Glacier



NP, Ernie's Camp-o-rama at the Livingston Fairgrounds and Teton NP. As



many of you know, last weekend, Ernie re-carpeted our PT with some



Mohawk designer grade stuff that we bought at Lowe's. Over the past



few days, we've really come to enjoy having nice carpet in the coach



and are very grateful to him for doing such a fantastic job. If you



are giving flooring installation a thought, he is quite the expert and



proved it to Kelly and I with his fine workmanship. I made a pretty



good try at restoring his exterior paint by using a mechanical buffer,



3M rubbing compound and Paint Guard Plus wax. The brown paint looks



almost new, but the cream is so thin that little could be done to



restore any shine to it. Given the great job that he did on our coach,



I really wish that I could have done better.







So far, we've traveled 4,746 miles. the ol' 6V92 has been running



great, averaging 5.88 MPG over the whole trip (mountains and all). We



used 7.5 qts of oil so far and have been running around 65-70 MPH.



We're on the Ohio turnpike tonight spending the evening at one of



their very nice travel plazas. 6 of them have hookups for $15, but we



opted for the boon docking corral since we DO have a Bluebird and all.



So far, we've had a need for the following items- Throttle return



spring (happens to match the one on an '85 Caprice 4 BBL carburetor);



A thrown belt on the alternator (I guess the wife's microwave-reheat



of the quesadilla's with the inverter on in Nebraska was just too much



for the brand spanking new Leece-Neville's Green Stripe belts to



handle); A rubber door hinge (only the mid-80's folks have to worry



about these- and they are still available from the school bus side of



bluebird). I'm glad that I had a mounted spare tire and my X-12 wrench



in Montana- there were places in there that had surely never seen a



bus, let alone changed a tire on one. If you don't leave the cities or



populated areas too much, then both are sort of overkill. My 220V fan



died on the Perkins Genset before we left, so I temporarily installed



a Hayden 12V fan on the outside of the radiator and it did just fine



at cooling the genset on our trip. I'll replace the old motor, but



having one of the Hayden fans in the roof pod is a thought!