We were up early this morning to take the RV to Cummins Northeast to have our generator worked on. It's located in Dedham, MA which is about 25 miles SE of Hanscom. Their service department opened at 7 a.m.
We stayed in their customer waiting room (Tinker went also) while they checked to see what was wrong with the generator. After a few hours we were told that the bolts that hold the rocker arms on one cylinder had come loose. We would have to leave the generator there for them to repair it. They are going to replace the plugs and re-torque the rocker arm bolts. We have to come back next Tuesday to have the generator installed.
While we were waiting for them to work on the generator, a truck driver came in to the waiting room while his truck was being repaired. We had seen the truck being towed in to the shop. It turned out that he would have to have a new engine or a rebuilt one installed in his truck. Since he was an independent trucker, he was going to have to pay for it himself. He had a family and kids getting ready to enter college and he was trying to figure out how to pay for the rebuilt engine. He said the cost of fuel was already eating into what profits he made and he wasn't sure what to do about replacing the engine. We left before he had made a decision and we wished him well.
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