Month: February 2022

Buckeye, AZ Friday February 25, 2022

Going to Discount Tire today to get the new tires installed.

Getting tires at Discount Tire has not worked out to well. Discount did not have the equipment to change the tires on a motorhome. They only had a 3/4 inch air gun which is not big enough to even get the lug nuts off the coach. After trying for a hour they decided they could not get the tires off and at this point I’m not sure they could even mount the tires on the rims.

The store manager called several places and final found a TravelCenter America Truck Stop 16 miles up he road who said they could mount the new tires. The Discount Tire manager wanted me to put the six new tires inside our coach and go the the TA Truck Stop. I said we didn’t have room, I didn’t want new tire rubber all over the inside our coach on the furniture and carpet. One minute before I asked for a complete refund he decided one of his people would take the tires the TA Truck Stop.

When we got to the truck stop the person who said they would mount the tires was gone for the day. I lady at the counter said she would call me when they were ready to do the tires. I went out to the coach, unhooked the pickup and we waited. At 5:00 (45 minutes later) I went back into the shop office to find out if we should eat dinner or were they going to call right after we started to eat. And amazingly all of a sudden she had someone available to mount the tires.

It took the guy 3 hours to mount the tires. They didn’t have the correct equipment to get the tires off the rims so he had to do it by hand. We were the only vehicle in the shop and the other tire guy working was not about to help. He work pretty hard to get to old tires off the rims.

We left the park at 1:30 and got back to 9:15, long day for just tires.

Anyway, we have new tires.

Buckeye, AZ Tuesday February 15, 2022

Got to go buy all new tires today. The tires have 45,000 miles on them and the coach has 140,653 miles on it. I have to get at least two front tires because it is hard on the king pins to have tires of different sizes. When you think about how many times the tires rotate a little difference adds up over time. If I get front tires I will need to get rear tires in 15,000 miles or just over a year from now. A year from now I may get tires with a different tread design and then that makes it difficult to rotate the tires from place to place on the coach. So anyway we will have all new tires.

Buckeye, AZ Sunday February 13, 2022

Last Sunday morning we had no water. My first thought was the water pump had frozen, it was 24 degrees during the night. Turned the heat on which also puts warm air into the lower storage area where the water tanks are located. After 20 minutes the water still had not started to run so I went outside to see what was still wrong.

We had no water with a small puddle under the coach. All the water in the take was gone, about 50 gallons. When I put in the expansion tank a couple of years ago I also put in a plastic drain value so I could drain more water out of the holding tank for winter storage. The value either failed or vibrated open. The small puddle was because most of the water had already evaporated.

The first thing I needed to do was get the valve out and fined something to block off the hose. I went through my tool box and found a plastic display fixture from a 1/2 in socket I bought a couple of years ago.

We got water at a place in Quartzsite that sells propane, water and sewer dumping. Water was $8.00 for 80 gallons.

This picture was taken after we had refilled the tank, you can see the water level at about 70 gallons.

Buckeye, AZ Friday February 11, 2022

We have arrived at our home for two months. Currently scheduled to be here until April 11th. Spring training starts on March 26th.

At Leaf Verde RV Resort site 49 in Buckeye, AZ. We could not get into the place in Goodyear we have stayed in the past years. When I said our coach was a 2004 they said the place was all booked up for the foreseeable future.