Silver River

Thursday January 5, 2012
Silver River State Park Site #43
Near Ocala Florida

 

Let’s begin Thursday’s tale with the shower door lock
rather than the saga of the jack.
Everybody likes a happy ending.

Remember yesterday’s Coastal Industries stop with Curb side service?
Well here is the problem their part was to fix.

Shower door bangs back and forth during travel.
The “lock” you can see in the up coming picture does not work
to hold the doors in place.  Perhaps you too have this problem
with one of these
sorts of shower door locks.

 

This can be fixed easily worked around by a tension bar
if you are smart Like Gin and Syl of Wandering Sylville. 
Or you can use this Sherry and David approach.

Nowhere near as EASY

 

But with the new Coastal Industries part
that you merely have to screw onto the outside rail jam
in the shower in place of the rubber bumper,

 

 

VOILA, 
the two doors snap closed.

Ah, one problem, albeit minor, solved.
Feels GREAT!!!

 

This happened after taking a really lovely
run over to the Salt Spring and around Bear Trail
before leaving the park.

 

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Giant tree hugger in action.

 

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David found what he called Mother Nature’s Dope Slap.
Just fit my hand.
So I thought I’d try it out.

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After this fun time, we came back
and quickly got things packed up
for a quick exit to beat the 1:00 check out time.

 
Even though we only have 3 jacks since the right rear
will now not go down, the other 3 come back up.
Everything is going along fine until we try to bring
the slides in and they are in S…..L….O…..W  motion.  

At this point we are running out of time to exit .

Hydraulically, things are clearly NOT RIGHT. 
But eventually the slides come in,
we beat feet the entire 28 miles to Silver River State Park. 
My kind of driving day.

 

We pull into site #43, same one we had last year. 
Nice large site.

We set up and the three remaining jacks will come down, but not lift.
Good thing this site is pretty close to level.
So we decide to put the slides out.

Slides are straining to go out. 
And finally the living room slide just will not do the last 3”. 
Back to the phone to call Frank at HWH. 

Does anyone else make frequent calls to Frank at HWH??
Of course you can’t just call Frank, you have to talk
to Angie and she will get Frank to call you back.
Hopefully……….

 

While we wait for Frank to call back, we enjoy these great
Florida winter temperatures

 

 

and have dinner on the picnic table. 
You can tell by the look on David’s face
that he’s only SORT of enjoying his dinner.

 

 

At 5:50, Frank calls back and in the dark
David takes the cap off the rear jack,
goes to the front and removes the U connector
from the tank to the shuttle valve.
Then he puts the jack cap on the tank fitting.
Now the slide will come all the way in.
Temporary fix.

 

So from Frank, we order yet ANOTHER solenoid to be
replaced and a replacement  system shuttle valve. 
Does he get a commission on parts??

 

I know you are saying enough ALREADY.
So tune in tomorrow for more exciting adventures,
like does  cleaning the
shuttle valve change anything at all.