What happened to our engine?

Well I received a call that our engine was back together and has a good test drive. Another test drive is going to be done to insure there are no loose ends. We expect to be able to pickup the coach on Monday 7/2. Waiting for a call back about the next test drive.

Ok what went wrong? One valve seat dropped and that took out the after treatment, DPF - Diesel Particulate Filter, both turbos, cracked atleast 1 cylinder sleeve and other stuff. I was told that the EGR cooler was replaced, all cylinder sleeves and a lot of other items with updated parts. Apparently there were several parts in the initial build that they found did not uphold well, I don't have the specifics, and those parts were repllaced with new improved parts.

That's all I know now.

Jeep

Off early today to get windshield replaced. I expected to wait for the job to take 2 hours. After an hour or was told the job was done. What happened to the 1 hour cure time for the sealant? New fast sealing sealant. Just wait a day before washing the Jeep. Don't use pressure when walking. Not to worry, it's raining.

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What else?

Damn stones. Now we have a cracked windshield in the Jeep. We have driven a lot of miles, over 60k since we've owned it. Many behind the coach including road construction season  on our trip to Alaska.

Called insurance and will call the glass shop tomorrow.

Watch what you delete

Since my laptop was running slowly I thought I would delete I would delete some files I didn't think I needed. Bad thought.

When I shutdown and restarted I had no OS, Windows 10. None of the recovery options would work. So I bought a terabyte external drive copied c:/users/Larry files ( no backslash on my phone keyboard) using xcopy. Took a while. Reloaded win 10 and spent time getting things back to where I can use it.

I bought 16gig of RAM and installed it. Since this is an older laptop I may change the HD with an SDD because I expect the HD will fail eventually.  Besides an SDD will be faster than an HD.

Waiting waiting ...

Well this is serious issue. We were told that the engine" lost" a cylinder so they needed to tear into the engine. Took the rear end of the coach apart so they can get to the engine.

Waiting for details.

Two to three weeks to basically rebuild the engine. Valve and cylinder issues. Since we are 300+- miles away I don't have detailed knowledge of the failure mode.

Setting on the on the side of the road

Something went wrong, chack transmission light, waiting a tow

I am near:
501 East Chapman Street, Pittston, Pennsylvania 18640 (Luzerne County)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.31475,-75.75089

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Back at Lake Anna

We got an early start and arrived here about 2:30. Traffic was no problem, 1 fuel stop in our 340+ trip and we averaged 8.1 +/- based on the engine computer.

A little update

We left FL late April and arrived at Lake Anna SP to begin our month of camp hosting. It was nice to reconnect with our Virgina friends.

We found that last to return to FL to take care of our coach registration, driver license, etc. We stayed at Starke KOA.

That done we are on our way to VT.

I am near:
1337-1599 East Campground Road, Florence, South Carolina 29501 (Florence County)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=34.26356,-79.71272

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