Broken trailer, part 3.

So maybe dread is too strong of a word. I want to save that feeling for when I look behind the bus and the trailer isn’t there. So it was more like dis-belief. Really, the whole tounge just snapped off the thing?! Here we go again. Big Breath in and release. Shift into troubleshooting mode and Go. Ok gotta get the traioler more off the road its too close to traffic. Then assess, ok not moveable. Need a tow truck. Wait. Is there a warranty on the trailer, its new only few months old. Ok call the dealer we bought it from in Arizona. They were a big help. they helped us get intot contact with the company who makes these trailers, at first they wanted to blow it off as not their issue. Not a defect in the metal. We sent photos and knew that we were not overloaded and it should be covered under warranty so how do we proceed. We had to get it off the road soon. State trooper stopped and gave us some time to figure it out. Highway maintence guys stopped and gave us some time to figure it out. 2 random guys stopped and said they would sell us an old flat deck trailer for 500 bucks and they would help tie stuff down..what next? We decided tot unhook the trailer from the bus. Called a tow company to come and get it then we left . We drove into Coos bay and parked on the street for the rest of the day. After a few calls and emails the owner of the company agreed to pay for the repairs.

So we found a local place that could do the work go and get the trailer and take it back to their shop. That was on a friday so we hung around Coos bay for the week end, I went to a couple AA meetings and we spent some time out a State park on the coast. Also, good news, I figured out the check engine light code. Come to find out I can check the codes by a switch under the dashboard that when the light comes on “check engine” i can toggle the switch and a code sequence will flash on the dash and give a number. Then I can use that number to diagnose the issue. so the number that flashed was 123. After looking up the code online it pointed to a bad sensor. The air intake sensor . Now I had something to work with without having to buy a code reader or take it too an expensive Cummins shop. I called around and found a new sensor a couple hours down the road. So Monday morning we picked up the trailer all fixed with a new heavier duty tounge welded on and painted . After hooking it up we were ready and drove north, picked up the new sensor and it took me about 15 minutes to replace the sensor in the parkling lot. And what a differnce! A lot more power and no more slugging up the hills, check engine light went out and been running great ever since. Knock on wood. So we drove all day up into Tacoma, WA and picked up our spinner boxes at Nicole’s house. Then on to the fairrgrounds to camp and sell spinners for the next five days.