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.

Time for some success!

Success is a heady thing. Once we've had a taste of it, it's hard to live without a bit of it now and then.

I tend to be a lucky person. I find pennies on the sidewalk, I pick 4-leaf clovers, and I usually see the cat's yack before I step in it. But today, I'm having trouble getting my Adobe CS3 to install on my new computer! This time I'd de-activated the software in Tucson before leaving there and so that's not the problem. I'll have just the 2 active licenses and so that should be cool. I wrote to the Adobe folks and we'll see what they say.

Then there's the Turbo Resonator situation. This is a part in the Sprinter chassis of our li'l Navion which is prone to failure. When it fails, the RV goes into Limp Home Mode, where you can't go over 20 mph and cars behind you honk and stuff. I didn't want to have to go through this hell, so I bought a part that was highly recommended by the online group I belong to at Yahoo Groups. It's called a Turbo Resonator Eliminator.

Well, I wasn't able to get the Eliminator installed on the Navion, but I think I was going about it backwards. Plus I was trying to do it with this tiny wrench and that made loosening the bolts unnecessarily hard. I'm going to get a li'l girl model ratchet set and see if I can't get that thing fixed. I'm not giving up yet.

So.. what's been good? We went to Mooresville ydy and enjoyed a nice dinner with Annette, Steve, Robert & Molly (who came down from MN), and Lisa and Aaron and both of their families. Our ears were ringing when we got out of there, but a good time was enjoyed by all! I'd post a pic but.. uh... I don't have Photoshop, and I'll need PS to get us all into the pic. ;)

We had lunch today at Michael's office, and it was great to see all the folks and to enjoy a great O'Charley's lunch.

We've had a rainy few days with the weather being really pretty unpredictable -- sunny one minute and pouring down rain the next. No big storms yet, though.