Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The rest of the story (aka the reason for the delay)

So, yesterday, we stayed an additional day at Pine Mountain due to hearing something "strange" in the front driver's side wheel.
What we could see through the hole in the wheel.

I could grab it with needle nose pliers, but couldn't get it out.

Another view of it inside the wheel. The bright shiny thing inside the wheel are the Centramatics balancers.


After calling CoachNet, they sent out a guy to look into it. We thought he would be able to take the wheel off the coach and check it out for us... but... somewhere between our explanation and the guy coming, that message didn't transmit. Anyway, he was able to work the piece around and bend it (it was soft lead) and get it out:
The piece of metal that was rumbling around loose in the wheel.
Jimmy and the guy who came out both thought it was a weight that would have been attached with some sort of adhesive to the brake drum as a balancer. Either the Centramatics are doing their job and adjusting appropriately, or I didn't notice any difference on the drive today.

We are now at Thousand Trails in Fair Play, SC. We'll be here a couple of nights and then be moving on to Fletcher, NC.

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