Our Crazy, No Good & Very Bad Breakdown Saga Part 4 - Fixing Our Truck // Truck Camper Life //CTW
Channel: Called To Wander
Date: 05/09/2020

This happened in the spring of 2019 but with life and all its craziness, we never released these videos. This is the final part of the series. 

We broke down in Heber City, Utah on our way to Thermopolis, Wyoming from southern Utah. While we could not properly fix the issue in Heber City, we did have hopes of diagnosing it in nearby Park City at the local Ford Dealership. 

We camped at a campground immediately next to the dealership and spent 3 days of wishful thinking and running back and forth to the service center in hopes the truck would be fixed. But on the 3rd day the service department at Ford told us our truck was dead. Metal shards in the oil, they said, indicating the engine was blown. 

Stranded, our options were to pay them 11K to rebuild the engine (which we didn't have), 45K to buy a new truck (which we DEFINITELY didn't have) or come up with a 3rd option. 

After driving back and forth between friends in Thermopolis and our truck and camper in Park City we finally managed to find a way to ship our truck back to our mechanic in Florida. We rented a 3/4 ton pickup truck capable of holding the camper and we split our home into two pieces and sent them in separate ways. 

Fortunately, our mechanic immediately diagnosed the issue as a short in the wiring harness between the ICM (injector control module) and the injectors that caused two injectors to misfire. $800 in a new harness and a few hours of labor later and our mechanic had us ready for the road again. 

In the meantime, we took up work in Thermopolis to pay off the nearly $7,000 we spent in the ordeal. Between renting cars, trucks and campsites, shipping the truck from Utah to Florida and making the repair itself we had to work hard to get back to even. 

We had tremendous online support from friends who helped us raise just over $2,000 toward these expenses and again reminded us of the greatness of humanity. 

Chris flew back to Florida in July to pick up the truck and by September we finished paying off the repairs and were ready to continue on our adventure south to Baja, Mexico for a long and beautiful winter!

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