The poor back-up bus still has issues. They called me last night and said it was ready to go. The belts that had mysteriously come off the engine were back on, the charging system was working, and the two new Interstate batteries were holding a charge.
Karen drove me to All American in Victor today, I grabbed the keys, went to start it, and it was totally dead. Von and his mechanics all went “What“? It took a large pickup and an electric charger to jump it and as I was hopping in the cab to take it back to base, Von said, “This bus has gremlins“!
Yes, that must be it! Nobody can figure out how the belts came off, but little mischievous gremlins would certainly explain it. As to the overnight power drain, I can envision them plugging gremlin boomboxes into the electrical outlets and partying all night in the darkness of our base.
Mystery solved!
Maybe, if you leave a little drink and some food in the bus for the Gremlins they’ll leave the bus alone.
That smacks of enabling to me…
There must be a bare wire some where. Or a ghost lives on the bus. Hope every thing is all right with the bus.