Newell Renewal - Day 11

7:10 am - Tuesday - April 28th - Wittmann, AZ - 67° F, 25% humidity, wind 6 mph out of the northeast.....clear, blue, hot, sunny skies again today with a forecast high of 99° F.  On this day in 2014 we were staying at the fairgrounds in Sioux Falls, SD.......

.....on this day I installed the new faucet in our bathroom.  It ended up being all day affair as I worked in very tight spaces to stop one leak after another.

After a day off Sunday, we were back at it Monday finishing up the solar install.  Now that we had the additional 2 gauge lugs Tom and I got busy installing crimping them on to the black cable.......

.....once that was done it was time to connect all the remaining wires to the appropriate lug nuts....

......we will pick up the new 8d batteries on Tuesday, then the 12 volt electrical system will be operational once again so we can test out the new solar system.

I spent some time Monday cleaning off the front of the 1984 Newell Classic......the insect residue from their drive through southern Arizona was still present.......

 Bugs be gone!

....meanwhile Tom was busy under the coach running new air lines from bag to bag.....

....it took a little longer than he expected, but he got it done, and now we can take the coach off the four 22 ton jack stands and air the system up once again with, hopefully, no air leaks!

Meanwhile Glenn and Laureen began to put things away inside the coach, as well as finishing the reattachment of the dashboard underlayment with screws.....no nails, or staples will be used this time!  They'll reinstall the padded top of the dashboard on Tuesday.

Depending on when the new tail/turn signal/brake lights arrive (sometime between Monday and Thursday), and the new flange gasket for the Leece-Neville alternator arrive (sometime between Monday and Friday) we could be rolling our wheels as early as Friday, but it is looking more like Sunday morning.  We are more than ready to escape the heat of southern Arizona.

For dinner TLE and Laureen put together a platter of cold cuts, which we consumed in the salon of our 1982 Newell Classic.....kind of a preview of things to come over the next few months.

On another note, my good friend, Claude Banker, called me the other day to let me know he was hitting the road again in his 1984 1/2 Bluebird Wanderlodge in early May and wants to hook up with us somewhere along our journey to the northwest.  Below is a picture I took of his rig at Morro Bay back in 2009.....

....it also is powered by a Detroit Diesel 6v92, and is 36' long just like our 1982 Newell.

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