We wanted to sail in the true Atlantic so we drove the rig and sailboat to Saint Augustine and sailed out past the three mile mark into blue water. We also sailed in front of the fort in the old city where boats in the 1600s and 1700s used to pound the fort with cannon. We used a camera.
After a trip back up to Georgia to see parents again before heading west for the winter, we encountered a engine light and code P238 (turbo boost over or under pressure). The truck was limpy for 100 miles (well, limpy compared to how the 4cyl diesel normally is able to pull the 22,000 pounds at 60mph). I could barely hit 50mph on a flat.
We fixed the problem ourselves (it was quite easy).
Instead of removing the pods from the flatbed, we decided to try raising the living pod high enough to tilt forward the cab. It worked great and only took a few minutes (mostly to dig out the jacks from the truck boxes and plug them into the pod sockets). It seems that raising the pod about 10 inches off the flatbed was just right for tilting the cab and it not hitting the overhang.
Once the engine was exposed the problem was extremely obvious. The boost sensor wires were all frazzled (the red and white totally torn through, ground was nicked). Squirrel or mouse or just vibration? Anyway, I broke out the soldering iron and heat shrink, performed some surgery and she seems to be running fine now with no codes. $0 spent. When does *THAT* ever happen?
Truck kind of looks like a transformer here:
