Trying to contact Bill Wente
 

Hi, this is Barb, Mitch's wife. He's travelling today and having car trouble. He wants to talk to Bill Wente (67since67). If anyone has his number, please reply in a PM. Thanks!

PM sent

Talked to Mitch a couple hours ago, at that time the problem seems to have resolved itself. He was three hours south of me and I warned him he's headed for some sketchy weather, forecast 6-9" here overnight.
Being the old trucker he is he's determined to be home tonight.

We all wish them safe travels!

I haven't heard back from Mitch so I'm hoping his temp gauge held steady, if so he should have slid by my locale in the early stages and be driving out of the storm about now, an hour or so from home.

Please let us know when you are home Mitch!

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So it’s a cooling system issue Bill, also what’s he driving?
Crazy weather up here too, tons of snow this year like winters when we were kids.
Keep rockin’ Mitch!
:beers:
~ Pete

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Toyota Highlander towing his Harley trailer back from FL. He had to add coolant due to a seeping water pump and likely had an air pocket that needed to get burped out. At least that's what we were hoping!

As of 10:30 Mitch is a half hour from home, 1,800 miles in 38 hours.Got past the storm with just rain.:biggthumpup:

Someone please post up that old SouthPark video that was associated to Mitch a few years ago...

This Yenko community never ceases to amaze me.
Always willing to help.

That was me,and it was Family Guy. :)

Wow, thanks for all the support and well wishes, I'm sure they helped carry me home without further incident.
I had pulled over for the 5th time with the gauge pegged, when I got the text from Bill and the gauge rapidly dropped to normal as we talked, which it hadn't done the previous 4 times. I told Bill I was going to get on the road again to see if it would stay down and it did, for the most part. I'll replace the thermostat when I replace the water pump in the near future.
Cedar Rapids tried to slow me down with rain but hadn't gotten cold enough, yet, to snow or freeze and I drove out of the rain south of Waterloo, but did find snow flurries the top 25 miles of Iowa, but nothing to be concerned with.
The goal was to be home in 36 hours and I came close, but sitting in a 4 lane parking lot on I64 NW of St Louis for a crash to clear for 1/2 hr and all the time spent with the overheating pushed it to 38.5 hours.
I guess the old saying is true, that old truckers don't die,
they just smell like it...:biggthumpup:

Glad you made it home safely. Hope you didn't need any "pep pills from a crack whore".

Still laughing at that video.

Had a "few" coffee's along the way and I subscribed to the Sirius/XM program at their new customer special rate of $3/month for 36 months when I first bought the car 18 months ago. That helped keep my mind from falling asleep thru Wednesday night.
I took a different route home from Perry, FL to Tupelo, MS to avoid any more freeways once I was past Tampa, that appeared they would be less traveled to avoid the extremely over bright headlights on cars now, but they had a lot more locals out wandering around until about 11pm than expected. It was more scenic and pleasant, but as expected, took longer to travel.
Bill was mildly amused at my habit of using 2 lane roads for long distance travel rather than freeways and shorter commute times.

"...avoid the extremely over bright headlights on cars now,..."

Ain't that the truth.

Reminds me of driving home to the Chicago area from Florida on New Year's Day 1976. Going north on I-95 was like driving a major urban freeway at rush hour....70MPH, bumper-to-bumper. As we approached the Florida-Georgia line all I could see were brake lights and cars swerving in every direction. I took to the median and avoided any damage. Continued north to the first exit, got off and headed west on some two lane highway til we got to Alabama, where we eventually picked up I-65 and continued north. Just crossed into Tennessee when I noticed the headlights on our 68 El Camino were extremely dim. Pulled off into an all-night service station and found out that the long alternator bolt on the small block had snapped off right at the cylinder head. Mechanic miraculously extracted the broken off piece of the bolt from the head, we removed the flat washer from behind the head of the long bolt and managed to get one thread of the bolt into the cylinder head. Made it all the way home like that.