Here goes the Montaj, getting towed to Ford. We had previously made an appointment at Price-Gnade Ford in Moscow Mills for service, after our 7,300 mile jaunt to Canada and back. When I went to fire up the engine and retract the slides, no go. There is a little blinking padlock on the idiot lights, and I couldn't get the engine to turn over. Called Ford, they said it was the anti-theft, and we'd have to tow it to the dealer to fix. Ugh. So, they called coach net to take us in. Quite a tow truck they sent! Mean time, we had to figure out how to close the slides and raise the hydraulic jacks without the engine running to boost the battery voltage, as recommended by Gulf Stream. Hooked up the jumper cables from the Honda to the Montaj, and that gave us enough to do the slides, but not the jacks. Kept getting a "low voltage" indicator on the jack control. Finally remembered that once before I'd forgotten to pull up the jacks and released the parking brake, which caused them to immediately retract. I tried it, and that worked, tho you could tell the pump was laboring. Had to un-hook the drive shaft at the universal joint. Tow truck picked the Montaj up like it was an egg crate. It was noon before we got it to Ford, and it took them a day to fix the anti-theft and re-connect the drive shaft. Ford says the knocking noise we are hearing from the engine is an exhaust manifold leak, and it'll take several days to fix, ie we're without a coach for the weekend and beyond... Meanwhile, we're "camping" at Jen and Ryan's on the Murphy bed. They'll probably start charging rent soon... :-)
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