{"id":182,"date":"2016-01-06T19:29:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/?p=182"},"modified":"2016-02-13T13:18:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T13:18:43","slug":"hitch-in-the-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/2016\/01\/06\/hitch-in-the-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitch in the plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had that post title prepared for a long time, ready to whip out when I finally got the hitch installed on the truck. \u00a0And the post starts something like this…<\/p>\n

Our truck came with a B&W turnover ball goose neck hitch so we decided to get the much loved B&W Companion 5th wheel hitch that goes with it. \u00a0We had a small bump in the road to getting it the first try<\/a>, \u00a0but I had found a great deal on a brand new one locally so I scheduled to go pick it up last night down in Denver. \u00a0But this is where the story starts to veer away from my expectations.<\/p>\n

I start rolling down I-25 and about the time I hit 75 mph my persistent friend the check engine light came on with a message saying that the exhaust fluid was of poor quality. \u00a0The DEF tank, the fluid itself, the injector and NOx sensor #1 all only have about 200 miles on them so there is no way that the fluid is of poor quality. \u00a0I continued my trip and picked up the hitch, without a hitch…ha!<\/p>\n

Once I got home I searched this issue and there are no shortage of forum posts about it, this one<\/a> probably being the granddaddy of them all. \u00a0I think the only thing left to change is NOx sensor #2. \u00a0Its in the shop while I assemble the hitch on my front porch. \u00a0Needless to say I feel very discouraged and defeated. \u00a0I have extremely low confidence that I can put any sort of dependence on our tow vehicle. \u00a0Duramax + Allison may be a great combo, but when you team it up with a turd exhaust system all you’ve got is an expensive turd you can’t drive. \u00a0I love my bike more and more every day that passes.<\/p>\n

So this is not at all the way I had the ending of this post planned in my head….but hey, “that is the definition of\u00a0adventure”!!<\/p>\n

New potential name for the truck: CELO (check engine light on)!<\/p>\n

Given this is a family friendly blog I will not<\/strong> link to Adam Sandler’s Reggea style tribute to crappy cars…but I think I know how he feels now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had that post title prepared for a long time, ready to whip out when I finally got the hitch installed on the truck. \u00a0And the post starts something like this… Our truck came with a B&W turnover ball goose neck hitch so we decided to get the much loved B&W Companion 5th wheel hitch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}