Uh Oh

During one of Dave's many walk around checks, he discovered that Beluga was bleeding!   Not gushing, but oozing.     Beluga shouldn't be oozing anything, especially in this heat, so he went to work mentally diagnosing, deciding on how serious a problem the red ooze was and how much time he had to fix it.    

He could certainly fix it himself, but had no parts.    Should we wait until we get to Spokane and  make an appointment at a Freightliner dealer,  would the ooze become a gush before then?

We're in LaGrange, Oregon for a few days so we decided to check out the local Freightliner shop on the off chance that they could order a new radiator overflow tank for us and get it in before we have to leave.    We could, perhaps, stay here a little longer to facilitate a later delivery? 

We must be living well because the Parts clerk here actually had ONE exact match tank for our "vintage" girl, in stock!    Our lucky day.

This morning, bright and early, Dave emptied our closet onto the bed, lifted up the floor and got to work.

 

He worked from inside and outside, going back and forth to disconnect, empty the antifreeze without spilling or dripping, remove the oozing tank and reinstalling the new one.   A couple quick trips to the hardware store for a new clamp, more antifreeze and a couple other small things and Beluga was good as new!    No more red liquid oozing from her back end.....and that's a good thing.