Well good morning guys from the Oceano Dunes Ranch, here on the Central Coast of
California. A very nice RV Park part of like the Encore Thousand Trails system.
But... We've been laying low here for the past week with Beck's mom who travels
full-time in a big old Class A ahh... Yeah... Just after grandma's passing it was good to ahhh...
Have a week or so of ahh...Family time together! But we are about to hit the
road to Alaska...Alright! How's it looking here... Hahaha...Pretty good! I borrowed something from my mom and I have
to return so I'm emptying the purse I borrowed from her...Ahh.. I don't have those type of problems! But
hey! We have some people that we'll introduce you to.... So while we're staying here at
Pacific Dunes Ranch, we bumped into some folks across the street...They are our
neighbors this week... Michelle and Brian have the channel: "Living RVision" And...
We'll put the little link so you can see how to spell it...Thanks!... But yeah! It's been
great meeting you guys... They pulled in right next to ahh...Beck's... Mum..Mum's Motorhome here...
Immediately felt welcome!... We just wanted to make sure we give you guys a nice, little
shout out, you're good people and primarily good content.... Gotta say goodbye to this guy...
That's my little buddy... Gabe....And then we have Mr. Sikkah here...Oh! I'm gonna miss you
guys... Might see you this summer if you come up to
Alaska... Get inside, inside...Stay inside goo boy... Shelby
is looking really good and ready to hit the road....
Ready?.... Yeah... Always hard to leave family... Especially after the last few weeks!
Oh, we have to get on the road sooner or later...Yep!... Now is the time!
Okay....It's been a while since I've said this...
But I think we are back on the road! It feels kind of good huh?...It does!... Actually to be
going somewhere... Despite everything, we were right where we needed to be!.... Yeah..
It's kind of amazing how the universe does that. We just, we're kind of
frustrated about being down here and... And then when everything started to happen we
realized... Your family needed you most!... Yep... It was actually the greatest
blessing to be just a few hours drive away and... To be able to have the freedom
to be where we needed to be with people we needed to be with and... Not have any
restrictions to that so... It's, it's actually a great blessing so...You know, It does sound
really corny but... You literally, when you're on the road full-time and not
in a stable house environment, you have to surrender yourself to the universe...
Because... You can't set too many plans. You just kind of have to have an idea of
what you want to go or a destination because.... It's all gonna get messed up and mix up...Changed... And
sometimes it's not even messed up, it's changed and it changes for the better
usually so.... Once you give in to that, life gets a lot easier....Haa!I wouldn't quite say it gets easier...
Well you're not fighting it anymore at least... Like you just give in to it...
Okay.... Either way surrender yourself to the universe and just roll with those
punches.... That probably stands true regardless of what kind of lifestyle you
lead. Stationary or on the road...True... This is going to be
so much better. I don't know about you but I think the windshields needed to be
cleaned a little.... You're probably wondering where we're headed...
You're probably assuming we're headed North and you would be WRONG!...We are..Since we
are still down here and have the opportunity to do so, we have decided to
pop over to Overland Expo West! We really enjoyed going to Overland Expo East in
the fall and we decided gee we're here!... The universe put us here.... Maybe we're
supposed to be there so... We're on our way to Flagstaff, Arizona now and ahh..We're
really looking forward to what the weekend has in store. Should be a lot of
fun!.... Today's drive is going to be a long one... It is!.... Like 600 miles and it's a
sandwich drive! Because it's like what? 58 degrees, 60 degrees beautiful temperatures...
Wonderful weather here, jacket weather! And then we're gonna be going through
Bakersfield.... The Mojave Desert.... All the way down
through Needles where it's pushing a hundred. And then climb up to Fairbanks
where I mean Flagstaff is going to be in the high 50s...
Hold on hold... I don't care what we have to drive through, as long as wherever we get
to is cool. Just hot, summer desert temperatures is not my thing!
Oh! In this camper without the a/c... Yeah... It has to get below 70 at night.... It really does!
Multiply seventy by seven... Seventy by seven haha... Yes....
Well, let's see what the road brings.... Alright so the P-0335 is the
crankshaft position sensor fault and....
The P-0251 is an injection pump... A rotor/camshaft sensor fault. Alright
Let's clear these codes and... Just see what happens because... That can a lot of
times bye as time...Erasing and erasing... Erasing... Done! Check engine light went out
so... We now know what the codes are! We should not be in limp mode anymore and...
Maybe we can dig into this a little bit deeper!
Like get off the road and dig into it deeper or drive around?..No, No... Well let's just see what happens... It's a
very valuable piece of equipment but it's been a wicked, hot, trip across the
desert! So who knows?... I'll just take it as it goes!.... Shelby thought this was a great
little snack stop. He had treats while we read the codes...haha...
It went into limp mode and we're not even going over 2,000 rpms or like 40
miles per hour... And we're not going to make it up to
Flagstaff for that so..We have alot of glades to pull to... Yeah, exactly!... This flat, yeah we pushed through! But...My
hands are tied! All I have is a code reader not a
full-blown scan tool that can measure all the data. Now that is gonna be on the
list because... I don't want to have to deal with this; "We don't have the tool to
read it!" I'm gonna get the tool and apparently my little reader is not the
tool. And I feel like a tool because I'm not prepared because... Ultimately it's
just nuts and bolts and if I don't have the right tool to fix it...
I gotta pay somebody and you know when you're a "Do-it-yourself" kind of guy, you
feel like a tool sometimes when you have to pay people! But.... Men!...Also it is just
way too coincidental that the ahh...This all happened after getting fuel... And I know
that we've had like a fuel filter, few problems or like the number one thing
you know...Diesel problem, oh check the fuel filter! It's like unplugging your router
for 10 seconds and plugging it back in when your internet doesn't work!
it's like step number one. And it all happened after we got fuel1 I do have on
this side... A tank of diesel that is not MPM diesel uhhmm...But... And I know that I'm just
rambling on here guys... But there's so many things going through my head but...I
do know that sometimes fuel issues can throw random codes... To further add a
little confusion ahh... After the engine sat for about an hour the check engine light
went off... And I did not clear that code so... We're just gonna
park for the night but who knows what's gonna happen along the way! The ahh...It did go
right back into limp mode again!... See right there that amber one is the check
engine light... That's parking brake... Alright, we'll see you tomorrow!... We are kind
of in desperate measures here. So to eliminate the fact of fuel in the
passenger side tank being the issue, I just went ahead and switched tanks. So
we're running off of the one here on the driver's side. And we're on our drive
right now to see if the check engine light comes on. And if it goes into limp
mode..... Well, it's not the fuel because we went back into limp mode and the check
engine light came back on... Okay, I just changed the fuel filter because it's a diesel...
Let's see how it goes! Seven miles under my belt and knock on
wood. No issues yet! So maybe it was the fuel filter. It was a little bit dirty
but.... I don't know, I'm gonna make sure to put
some... At least 15 miles on this thing before I feel comfortable with Beck
and I hitting the road. But damn!! Fuel filter, I had it on me!
And with any luck and we could use a little bit of luck... We might be back on
the road!....I have really good news for you! We are just a few miles from Fairbanks.
The fuel filter changed in the trick. Truck performed fabulously! Climbed the
hill up here with no problem and... We are going to make it to Expo West!
A couple of things... A couple of thoughts as we finish out our little adventure
here... One: As per usual, it's pretty handy to have this guy with us!
He's pretty adept at turning a wrench. And was able to kind of figure things
out here with you know... We talked about it and we could have
done this last night and gotten back on the road right away... But sometimes it's
nice to have a little bit of time to think it through. And process what's
going on and sort out the best course of action...
The guys at FUSO or at Mitsubishi in Las Vegas were awesome to help Ben kind
of troubleshoot and get through the codes and stuff like that! I mean like
they hung up with us and went and researched and called us back. It was pretty cool!
But.... I'm so grateful that Ben can take care of lot of these things! It ends up
saving us money and in this case, it got us back on the road!... A little lesson we
learned here: We've had triple-A for years! Renewed it
in November, told them what kind of vehicle we had. They didn't say a word
because we had changed RVs but when we went to try to use the towing service...
They were like; "Oh sorry, that's a box truck..
"We don't tow box trucks." And I was like... "No, it's not. It's registered as an RV!"
They did not care how the DMV registered it... As far as they were concerned this
chassis in their system is deemed a box truck and they will not tow it! Luckily...
We pay with State Farm and they will tow us! Their rule is they don't cap it... Their
rule for our policy at least is that they will..Wow, slow down... They'll allow him
They will tow us... Sorry... As far as needed in order to get to a facility
equipped to repair our vehicle. So not just any auto shop. The one that can
actually repair us! Since we, you know! We have kind of a custom vehicle... Mitsubishi
has proprietary diagnostic tools and equipment to repair the vehicles...It's
you know, you got to go someplace that has those things on hand!..So uhhmm...
Maybe this is the universe's way of helping us make sure we actually have
towing in place before we need it! But they will cover us in the United States
and Canada.... Another thing that we have also recognized with this is; There's a
learning curve to having a new vehicle! And I think we've probably said this a few
times since we bought the Mitsubishi. But now we know that when
something like this happens it's probably the fuel filter. And that's the
first thing that we will troubleshoot! But until it happens to you, you don't
know it and you don't necessarily know how it's gonna present and how you're
gonna fix it! So... You know, it's part of the learning curve! We had
Nellie for seven years. So we really had her dialled in!
We knew what everything meant and we're gonna get to the point where Danny's the
same way! But ahh... Really excited that we made it up here...
We're gonna do a fuel stop and a grocery stop real quick before we
check in....Well hello guys from Overland Expo West in Flagstaff, Arizona. And looks
like we got parked in the Fuso section! That's okay because the Fuso is still a
rockstar in my book!... Can't fault the fuel filter, can't fault the Fuso for the
fuel filter.... It's been a long two days guys!! Yeah! Got knocked down, get back up again!
The road just dictates your life and you almost have to surrender to it!
Don't give up, keep pushing.... And we're here at Overland Expo West, we made it!
Yes! Stay tuned for some good stuff from here.... Joe and Kate are here, Chris travels is
ahh...here and.... It's just gonna be awesome meeting you guys as well. We've already
said hi to a few people! So.... Thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed this super
duper dose of reality! Have a good one!