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We were able to move our coach over to Choo Choo Express Garage Friday morning about 9am, and Joel did his safety inspection of our running gear, and brakes. The brake linings have about 60% left on them, and the running gear (air bags, front end steering gear, etc.) is all in great shape. He tightened up the linkage on the left Pittman arm, and then lubed everything thoroughly. Glad we caught the linkage issue early, as if it continued to loosen the consequences could have been very expensive. Joel couldn't believe the transmission fluid was over 5 years old....he said it looked and smelled brand new. He changed the tranny filter, oil filter, and fuel filters, and then replaced the oil. We have switched over to Delo 400 from Rotella T. We were over the "pit" for about 3.5 hours.....we were charged for 3 hours of labor at $55/hour, and for materials....total bill...$422.30! I had budgeted $1500, so it feels like someone just handed me $1100!

We left Choo Choo around 1pm Friday and drove 190 miles down to Macon, GA (no stops whatsoever Tom!) overnighting at the Walmart on Zebulon Road just off I-75....a very nice, safe Walmart that we have stayed at before. Saturday we drove the final 303 miles to Cedar Key where we will spend the next month.