Holidays July 2010 Departure for the adventure!
We were ready to leave for our vacation. Three weeks on the road. We had planned to travel to the island of Prince Edward Island. Manon had already visited 25 years ago had fond memories as she wanted to see her with me. We left St. Casimir Friday, July 23 late afternoon. I finished my work at noon so she could leave early for our trip. There were still some adjustments to do to tidy up the kitchen equipment. I had to make a drawer for temporarily storing various. This work delayed the departure time.
Finally we left the house for another adventure, this time with Latcho Drom II. According to the dictionary, "adventure" means "unforeseen and surprising." That's enough said for guessing the rest of our story ...
We took Route 138, Route of the King, to go to St-Augustin de Desmaures reach Highway 40 (Félix Leclerc) in the direction of Pierre-Laporte bridge for Highway 20 to exit for Lauzon. This is our usual route leading us to the road 132 from Lauzon to ... where the road takes us!
Considering the late hour and not even dinner, we made a stop-sleeping in St. Vallier de Bellechasse. Village where I spent 11 years of my life punctuated by a period of 2 years. The first residence was located on the Church Street and the second residence on Main Street. Many memories emerged in my memory "selective."
Walking around the motorhome, I noticed drops of oil on the ground who followed the path traveled by the vehicle to park. Arriving at the back, a pool of oil lying on the ground. After checking, I found that there was a leak large enough to seriously dwell on it. Accustomed to leaks on Detroit engines, it was not trivial.
The next morning I suggested we continue our journey to Montmagny and find a garage likely to investigate the leak. We stopped at a road haulage, transport fleet, including the chief engineer mandala his mechanic to do the usual checks. He found that the leak came from the transmission cooler. A seal probably. He advised against us to continue our journey towards the east but rather return to Quebec to fix the leak problem. Thus, we return to Quebec City with a stop at Autocar Excellence in Lévis, where our coach came before the conversion to see if the mechanical section was open. Of course, it is closed the weekend! We took the road to Quebec City to visit the Old Port with Autocar Orleans. Again, just to confirm the diagnosis received in Montmagny, mechanic service validation that the leak came from the transmission cooler. Unable to resolve the problem over the weekend. First, no parts in stock. Secondly, the engineer is assigned mainly to the maintenance of buses Orleans. We suggested to park behind their garage and wait until Monday morning the foreman's back and see him for repair. We spent the weekend at the Old Port of Quebec parked on land secured by a fence with Frost ... electricity! We had a view of the Château Frontenac and yellow ... the huge tent of Cirque du Soleil presents the show Totem.
Although "down" technique, we used this weekend to walk us through the streets of Quebec. Manon to discover the "nouvo" St. Rock neighborhood. We had a great time visiting the store for children "BENJO" on St-Joseph. Of course, walking along the docks, review the Quartier Petit-Champlain, Vieux Port market, watch the boats moored to the docks of the marina in the Old Port activities were furnishing our weekend to release the stress of the unknown face of such compensation. Wishing to combine work and pleasure, we have witnessed the representation of the show "Totem" Cirque du Soleil. As to my first performance "live" a Cirque du Soleil, I was surprised even marked me for life promising not to miss one in Quebec.
Monday morning. Up early. Ready for the "big surprise". As the foreman arrived at 7:00 I went to him to introduce myself and see what he could do to solve our problem. As he had not his entire team in place, several mechanics were on vacation, he suggested I go home Autocar Excellence whereas the vehicle was purchased last March and that the engine had been checked before putting it on sale. In addition, he said, as the engine is a "repackaged" with approximately 125 000 km, it is abnormal that there are leaks like this.
illico We resumed our journey towards Excellence Charter Levis hoping one hand, agree with them for repair but also to find the chief engineer, Gino, with whom we spent during the transaction of buying and taking delivery. We were delighted, even surprised by the professionalism of Gino. He gave the honesty, frankness, unusual these days, we provided reassuring "real" coach. Arriving at Autocar Excellence I asked a mechanic if Gino was there.
"You're lucky to see him here this morning. It is supposed to be on vacation this week. "Gino
, seeing us, approached us and I explained the problem. Astonished, he looked surprised tired of oil left since our arrival.
"We will enter the bus above the well and will check that! "With
a mechanic, it validates the diagnosis of two other mechanics and although it should be on vacation, he agreed to do the repair. He made several calls to order parts. Result, receipt of parts for Wednesday only. Not without letting go, he went to his reserves in parts if it would not by chance the missing pieces. As the recent coaches have no such transmission, it has provided spare parts for new transmissions. Eureka! All parts, the kit of gaskets, was in a dusty box in the bottom of a shelf. One kit and good! Happy for us, he hastened to tell us the good news.
"I can do the repair today. Tonight you can continue your journey ... and I go on vacation! "
At 19:30, we resumed the road, this time relieved to go on vacation. We drove under a setting sun to St. Aulnaies of Rock and spend the night. A beautiful sunset we arrived approval ... Phew! What a start!
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