Pulley Problems

Yea, the rain is gone and now have a forecast of sun and clear skies. In fact after the rain quit last night, the temps dropped and things were frozen this morning. After the sun came out and temps started rising, everything thawed out and dried up (all except the washes…they will run full for a few more days). Our temperature topped out around 60 today, so it still was a bit cool to sit outside and enjoy the sun.

Because it turned out to be such a nice day today, Ken decided to replace the faulty power steering pump on the Jeep. He had no problems removing the pump & pulley from the car, but couldn’t get the pulley off the old pump. The auto supply store had loaned him a pulley puller, but it didn’t work, so after talking with the dealer about the problem, they said bring it in and they would work on it. Well there he was with everything apart and 20 miles from their store. Thank goodness for fantastic neighbors because Pat & Dave said we could use their car to go into town (thanks so much to Pat & Dave for the loan).

Once we got to the store, the guy quickly went to work on the pulley and ended up breaking it. Well since he broke it, he said he would replace it, but we would have to wait an hour before he could get another from a different location. We didn’t want to drive our neighbor’s car around too much, so went next door to Dairy Queen (always a great place) to kill and hour and have lunch.

After an hour, we picked up the new pulley and headed back to the coach. Ken worked and worked on trying to get the pulley on the pump, but ended up breaking it instead (oh joy and a few bad words). Once again he called the auto parts store to see if they could get another pulley, and found out they wouldn’t be able to have one in hand until tomorrow afternoon. Oh great, so here we are with the Jeep’s power steering pump out and a broken pulley until sometime tomorrow afternoon. The pulley is plastic and very difficult to get back on the pump, so there is no guarantee the next one will work any better. I guess we will see what happens tomorrow!