Newell Renewal - Day 9

7:07 am - Sunday - April 26th - Wittmann, AZ - 63° F, 34% humidity, wind 4 mph out of the north by northeast......high, wispy clouds today with a forecast high of 100° F.  On this day in 2018 we were visiting the St. Louis Arch......

.....it twas a beautiful day to see the city from on high.

Numerous notable things occurred Saturday.  First of all we closed up the generator, and reinstalled the chrome front bumper........

.......Tom installed all 8 of the new Firestone airbags, and we gathered the old ones together in preparation for their disposal......

 Two of the 8 new airbags installed

.....Laureen began to put the dashboard back together.......

......Tom, using his hydraulic 'crimper', installed several cable lugs at the various junctions in the red and black solar cable.  Below he is installing the 'ON/OFF' switch for the solar system.....

The 'ON/OFF' switch

......I sealed the hole resulting from the removal of the Winegard batwing TV antenna over a week ago.....

.....I finished the installation of the XM radio antenna........

......Glenn cut a hole in the floor under the couch so we could run the black and red cable into the house battery compartment.......

......Glenn installed the breaker switch and the 'shunt' in preparation for the connection of the black and red cable.......

.....I removed one of the 8d batteries to make room for the breaker and 'shunt' installation.....it was later determined through the application of a 'load test' that all four batteries (2 house, and 2 engine) need replacement so this battery will not be returned to its cradle, and 4 new batteries have been ordered....

.....I cut the cable, Tom crimped on the lugs, and I connected the red cable to each terminal on the breaker.....

.....Laureen installed the Victron charge controller and plugged in the cable to the appropriate lugs.....we came up 2 lugs short of finishing the solar installation, but those will be acquired on Sunday, and installed on Monday.......

.....and Tom began polishing the ALCOA wheels on the 1984 Newell......

....she's beginning to look 'purdy' again!  Finally, Laureen discovered a blown inline fuse on the CB radio, so the mystery of  it not working has been solved.  We finished our whirlwind day around 4:30 pm.  It was our 9th consecutive day of the 'Newell Renewal' project.  We are within a few days of wrapping up the many projects we began 9 days ago.....we have maybe 2-3 more days of work, but we will take a day of rest on Sunday....I think we've earned it!

I caught this cool picture of the crescent moon hanging out below Venus.......

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