Whew!!...Big doings for us today...closed our eyes and turned the key...a few rumbles...a bump...then zoom!!! The engine took right off!!!Both of us jumping around like kids at Christmas..."The engines running...The engines running!!!" Talk about excited...after 5 weeks of down time...working night and day sweating whether or not it would even ever start again...then having to sit for two days trying to figure out why the fuel system wouldn't clear (you have bleed it a certain way but for us it was more a matter of no blood...couldn't get gas to engine all because of a tiny-tiny hose clamp letting in one tiny mini-drop of air....boy diesels are finiky)...

Anyway...the engine started...the new customized exhaust system Ray designed worked perfectly, the engine starts with a breath of a key turn...so now we're off to the next phase with new optimism about getting outta here soon. We share our excitement...couldn't be better...retired cruisers :)