Clutch Repair

We were sure glad we went flying Friday because Saturday was not a pleasant day!  I spent most of it and Sunday taking planes out of the motor home so Bev could borrow it next week.  Boy did I have lots of stuff in there.  I was doing some cleaning on the motor home Monday when I got a call from James that his clutch was acting up and he couldn't get it into gear at times.  After I gave him some hints on driving without using the clutch, he headed our way.  He called once on the way here when it wouldn't go into gear and I told him to put it in gear and start it.  After checking a few things, we decided it was the clutch master cylinder or slave cylinder so we ran down to NAPA and ordered both.  They said it would be in at 7:30 Tuesday morning.   While we were working, Vera made a batch of Cocoa Mounds and James got to lick the bowl.

James came up Tuesday morning, we picked up the parts and started in.  It went pretty good, I let James do most of the work, so he got his hands a little greasy.  We would have been done sooner except a pin that was in the wrong place disappeared into the body panel never to be seen again when I tried to take it out.  I ended up making a new one and we buttoned things up.  We took the tools back to the shop and it started to rain, James asked me to roll the windows up, but only the driver's door window would work.  Back to the carport we went!  We were just starting to tear things open again when Steve showed up and mentioned it might be the master door lock!  It was and everything worked again, Thank You Steve!  It was a lot of fun working with James and teaching him a few things.  Bev and her friend Diane came up Tuesday evening and picked up the motor home.  We had a nice visit with them before they had to head home as they had a couple of stops to make on the way.