This morning I took the truck into the shop for some more preventive maintain's on the truck. Back in 2010 I had the clutch replaced on the truck and at that time we had 157,000 miles on the truck. The shop that did it is called Pessemier's Complete Automotive in the Fredrickson area. They did a real good job last time and the truck is getting close to having 300,000 miles on it. We are planning a lot of driving this summer and next fall so I figured it was time to replace it and be better off with a new clutch, pressure plate, throw out bearing, and a refaced the flywheel. The way I look at it, a little preventive maintains goes a long way.
They called this afternoon and said every thing was going good and will have it done tomorrow, they need to replace the hydraulic clutch that is something common when doing this, but it is coming from Portland and will be in tomorrow. So tomorrow afternoon we will have the truck back and we can give out daughter back her car, which we really appreciate her letting us use it.
We have pretty much finished calling all of our guest on the 59 Day Alaska trip that we are doing this summer. We only have one more to talk to, so we are hoping to finish that tomorrow. Then it is time to start planning menus and other things that we need to do, it is all part of showing them a great time.
If the weather holds true by late Wednesday it will start to clear up and I might get started on replacing all of the bolts on the springs with grease able bolts and brass bushing. This will help make them last a few more miles longer. OK, I got my chores set, now to try and get them done, one other thing while home this time we are going to try and lighten the load a little bit more.
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