The Turbo Resonator Eliminator Saga

YAY me! I got the old Turbo Resonator (a Q3) out of there! And… I got the new TR Eliminator IN there! What I'm talking about is a part on the Navion (RV) which is prone to failure. Enough people on the View/Navion newsgroup at Yahoo Groups had had failures and horror stories, that I thought that a pre-emptive strike was a good idea. And yes, Bob, I AM brave! Didn't you know that about me already?

Byron in that group gave me good advice about taking the old TR out of its hose clamp end before unbolting. And it did help to have a ratcheting wrench in a ¼” size to do that bolt loosening underneath. I think that the hardest part was getting the new Eliminator to “seat” itself on the O-ring side, so that the bolts would go in, but.. hey, I did it!

I still don’t think that the instructions are quite right when they say that this is a fix that anyone can do on the side of the road in 15 minutes. I am really glad that I did it in the comfort of my own driveway with my "creeper" and all my tools handy, and that I wasn’t worried about trucks or whatever whooshing past me.

Here are some pics of me with our li'l Nav. The first one I'm actually getting set to go under and take out the Turbo Resonator. In the other 2, I'm washing her:

We've been keeping very busy. We went up to Indy ydy to visit the zoo, but we couldn't find a place to park. They were parking folks there for the baseball game and so zoo visitors were out of luck. Dumb idea, if you ask me. They should charge triple to park if you're not a zoo member on game days. Or something. LOL.

So we couldn't go to the zoo so instead we went shopping for ladies' clothing! :) We went to Keystone at the Crossing and dropped nearly $500 at J. Jill, one of my favorite clothing shops. Fun! I told Michael that was his Father's Day gift.

Now today we're going to be going to Indy again, and this time we are going to the game! Michael's friend Geoff has tickets and asked us to go along so there we are!

In case you're wondering, we are still keeping up with our daily exercise. I park the car at the gym and then Michael goes and does his thing for 40 minutes. Meanwhile, I get Maddy out of the back of the car and we go for a 40 minute walk about town. We have enjoyed some really fun jaunts! Today we walked south on Washington St till we got to 1st St. Then we cut up to Lincoln and took that back to the Post Office. We got our mail from our PO Box, and then returned to the gym. It was getting hot already by 9:30, but not too bad, since it was pretty windy.