Travels with BillyBob Log

WHAT'S NEW is a chronological listing of updates to the BillyBob site.

TRUCK LINKS including vendor sites for old parts, custom parts, and tools as well as sites for classic car and truck organizations

STORE Operating in association with Amazon.com, books, recordings and tools can be purchased.

PLANNING for the restoration including project schedule and cost estimates.

TRAVELS WITH BILLYBOB With apologies to Steinbeck, this area of BillyBob's Garage will be used to log the trips BillyBob and I make together.

WORK-IN-PROGRESS is the restoration of parts of BillyBob that I can accomplish without a garage.

PRE-RESTORATION includes log entries of minor repairs and and adventures between time of purchase and the time when I started restoration, a piece at a time.

JR'S KORNER JR's Korner is the history of BillyBob before I got him authored by my brother, Wm. C. Kephart.

BILLYBOB MAINTENANCE Ever changing detailing, oil change, lube, etc. maintenance routines specifically developed for BillyBob, including required tools, materials and procedures.

PARTS SHOP The Parts Shop is a repository of How-To articles. Things that I have done over and over enough times to have developed a procedure. This gives me a checklist and saves brain cells.

STEALTH SHOP Urban residence design with large integrated shop and separate living quarters for a relative or renter.

10. Hutchinson Roadtrip Day 13

SITREP

BillyBob is a little muddy after our encounter with the Oklahoma farm road yesterday. I think we are thru with most of the storm activity and can look forward to hot, humid weather for a couple of days. The continental breakfast here in Ruston, LA was minimal but enuf to sustain me.

Thursday, May 29th 2008
Day 13 PRE Check

Checked all BillyBob's fluids and the tires again. I didn't realize it at first but when checking the pumpkin oil, I wuz laying on a pissant colony. Took a few minutes to get those buggers off my back. I had a few drips of something on the inside faces of the rear tires, radiating out from the centers. Brake fluid level hasn't changed the entire trip so I suspect the rear bearing seals since I accidentally overfilled the diffie yesterday a bit. Also cleaned mud off the taillight lenses. Morning starts for BillyBob take several tries but he runs fine after he's warmed up.


1.	Date and Time	May 29, 2008 8:45 AM
2.	Odometer	31,855
3.	Comfort Supplies	Cellphone, AAA+ membership, reading glasses, my lucky WWII Army Air Corps mechanics cap, cheap aviator sunglasses, small cooler with water and trail mix
4.	Roadtrip Supplies	Inventory
5.	Prep	Mount navigator, setup GPS tracker

Engage

I told Mother to take us to Montgomery, AL. She kept us on I20 until we hit the 'bama border, then got off on two-lane blacktop again. Not long after that, I told her to take us to St. Augustine, FL.

When we crossed the Mississippi River, at Vicksburg, the river appeared a bit wider than the crossing at Memphis last week. Traffic was not too bad here. It's a good thing, too. Today is hot and BillyBob does not like being pushed when he's hot. The temp gauge is quick to respond to a heavy throttle. He even spewed a small amount of coolant at one of the fuel stops.

By late afternoon, having started in Louisana, transversed Mississippi, and made substantial headway into Alabama, it was time to find lodgings for the nite. We stopped in Greenville, Alabama, having covered almost 400 miles.