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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Busted battery......

Ok, so here's the deal. I were look'n at the front of "that jeep". What the hell is that stuff on it? I rubs my finger over the fender and bumper.....hmmmm, smell just like battery acid. So's I go investigating. One of my house batteries is got a hole in it. Leaked out the acid while go'n down the road a hunnert mile a hour and it go back there and get all over "that jeep". It appears, after a wash job, that the paint has not been damaged.
"See Billy Bob, I tole ya a long time ago to secure the batteries so they don't jump all over the place an' poke a hole in one". Yeah, yeah, yeah....I hear ya.

Now comes the decision. If'n ya know anything bout batteries, ya don't mix 1 new with 3 old ones. Batteries are $107 each here in Deming, so that would mean another $428 plus tax for a complete set. Or I could just replace the broke one and suffer buying a new set "down the road a piece" in bout 2 more years. Damn, decisions decisions decisions.

Another decision I have to make is what to do with this beautiful brand spank'n new floor in "da house". The few days I have been in west Texas and Deming, I have tracked in bout a gallon bucket of desert sand. No wait...it were Sadie Mae what did it. I'm think'n cover the floor in the liv'n/kitchen area with some beautiful brand spank'n new vinyl flooring. I had give some thought to Pergo flooring, what is harder than any steel knowed to man, but that would add more extra weight. I got to do something before I destroy the walnut flooring. A note here to the rv'ers. Never....and I mean never, install a real wood floor in your rig. "that's all I have to say bout that"....GUMP.

Was a mite cold again last night after being 90 degrees all day long yesterday. I mean to tell ya right now, 56 degs is 2 blanket weather. Or it is in Billy Bob's house anyhows. I'm think'n that by the time I leave Deming headed back to Texas, in a month or so, my water lines will be freez'n over night. Been there and done that too many times bout the end of Sept.

Why I remember one time way down in south Texas on a Sept 5th, we received out first blue norther. Temps dropped from mid 80's to lower 40's in less than 2 hours. Ya remember stuff like that when ya ain't got no coat to keep ya warm.

Speak'n of remember'n stuff, do ya remember when I fix that water leak on "that jeep" for the hunnerth time? Ok, now where the hell is the water I put in that little jug under the hood? It were slap empty an' I ain't went no where 'cept the two trips to town. Damn that "that jeep".

Ok, I got things to do.....sounds good don't it? Oh wait, I DO have something to do. Gotta go pick up my meds at Walmart....an' probly spend a hunnert dollar on "stuff" I don't need. I do that ya know. 

4 comments:

  1. Question, aren't two batteries for the engine and the other two for the coach? I am pretty sure that is the way mine are. If that is the case, you could get by with only replacing two of them. What you think?

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  2. Second attempt to reply....
    Listen to me Dizzy, you have a diesel pusher that sits out in the yard hooked up to power. You don't need more than 2 house batteries. I have a gasoline engine, with 1 battery and I do boondock, so I need 4 house batteries. I could get by with two house batteries, but I would have to skimp on my needs. That why I got 4.

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  3. Yall can decide on the battery issue,,,
    I even remember that blue norther! On the 5th. Kids had to go to the pool the last day, only ones there, like to froze. Bring it ON!!

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  4. Battery problems sounds like trouble you don't need down the road! Any place you could store a couple of them and replace the broken one for now? Or store the old ones as an emergency replacement?

    I don't know much about your set-up, so I'm just guessing. All you need is an armchair quarterback, right? Sorry!

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