Big Red has a cracked head!

We were in Los Angeles on March 17th- getting the truck worked on AGAIN for a leaky coolant system but thought we should be all mended and on the road by mid day- probably headed back to Puget Sound.

WRONG!!!!!

Update on March 19th. Turns out the problem with the leaky coolant was more than just a hole in the resevoir. The truck motor was forcing the coolant through the overflow valve everytime we climbed a grade. Here is our "farmerized" repair in order to get back to Tacoma. The jug caught the overflow coolant and we poured it back into the resevoir. It worked fine as long as we stopped before the resevoir got too low. Because, if it got too low- the motor shut off- as we were driving along- and then it was manual steering and brakes to bring the truck to a stop!

The mechanic finally determined that there was a crack in the head that was causing all these problems. So the Big Red Truck is headed in for a major repair job- and we are headed to Kettle Falls!