The waiting game

The "Long Hauler" should be ready by the end of the day on Monday, later than we expected and if we had known we could have saved a lot of money just going to the grandparents instead of hanging around in Daytona paying for rental car and hotels. That's all behind us now that we are at the grandparents and awaiting the OK for the RV to be done.

The shop pulled the engine and found the issue:

This is the view looking down to the camshaft... well at least most of it. There is a section missing (middle hole)where a part of the cam just cracked and fell into the bottom end of the engine. Let's say this is not a good thing to have such a large chunk of metal bouncing around in your engine. Bad things happen. The part wedged into the crankshaft and seized the engine. Solution? New engine. The good thing is that these old 360 V8's are not that expensive to get and there are no complicated electronics to hook back up. Arrow Truck Repair is doing the work right now.

Plan "B" is to drive back up the East coast back home and save the cross country trip for next year.