Spent a month and a week in Pahrump and didn’t do much of anything. I did work on my Blue Ox Aventa II tow bar and got that back into better condition. It needed some maintenance and I purchased the kits to do that. New rubber boots and new nylon washers along with plastic insert lock nuts. Anyway, link is above if you’d like to read about it.
The rest of the time in Pahrump, I just mostly lazed around but I did work on my sticking pantry shelves. Turned out the one I use the most is getting harder and harder to open or close but can’t be removed! I can unlatch the latches for removal but it won’t pull out all the way even after that. I did lube the second pull out pantry shelf and it’s nice and smooth now. I’ll get to working on the problematic shelf here soon. Don’t want to jerk it out in case there’s a ball bearing jamming the slides as those rails are impossible to find in that length and jerking/forcing the pantry out may damage the slide rails.
Then I removed the louvered double doors in the toilet closet that cover several shelves. That is the space where the optional washer/dryer goes if the RV is ordered with one. I like having the shelves so haven’t bothered buying the machine. The doors have drooped over the years and so they wouldn’t latch closed because they have drooped down to far to engage the latching devices. After removing them, I used carpenters glue on the exposed edge where the louver slats were pulling away from the frame along the hinge side, rubber hammered the pieces together and let it dry. Reinstalled and now it latches fine so that the contents of the shelves don’t end up on the floor when driving. I still have several other projects in the RV like these that I haven’t gotten to yet. One big problem is the HWH 325 hydraulic living room slide. Over the last several months, maybe over 2 years of occasional use, the slide has gotten slower and slower when I try to retract it for travel. Keep reading for a solution later.
Anyway, near the end of my months stay, my daughter contacted me and let me know that the VA had sent me a very large check. Turned out that they had approved my disability claim for my hearing loss at 100%. That meant a monthly stipend and they back date it to when I initially filed. So a large check. That was something that I wouldn’t want her to sign for me and deposit in my CU as a ‘deposit only’ as the CU would take (they told us) over a month to clear it without my signature. Sooooooo, that meant I’d be heading back to Milton Freewater sooner by a couple weeks. I ended up leaving 2 days before my paid month was up and did not extend like I’d planned. But as it turned out, the weather up north was not bad. Google search shows no snow on the roads in Austin, Nevada either so I could take that route saving time and fuel. But the first days travel in mostly flat low valleys, did have some predicted rain. Sunshine and above freezing temps at the overnight stops for each of the 3 days it normally takes me to travel from Pahrump to Milton. Here’s the map of the route.
And here we goooooooo!!!!
Had some rain that started just as I left Pahrump. But 90 minutes later, I passed through Beatty and it’s already clearing up. Forecast for Pahrump was rain all day. I was able to get above (north of) the weather system as I traveled.
