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Thanks for the reply rosco! And you're right, its doable, just might take a few days.I'm only a little familiar with Billings.... But have experience with your problem. Of course its Saturday (at least its not the Holidays), and probably your not going to get somebody too interested till Monday. So at least your not on the side of the road in a blizzard. I would take a deep breathe and: find a place to camp/or Motel. Then drop the trailer, and find a car wash, and clean up the leaked oil. That will be a 1st - a shop will want to do it too, or should do it. There are heavy truck shops around there. They will be good on the oil leak, but maybe the lighter 4x4 Guys will be better all around on a Deuce, because of the brakes. Anyway, you will get some help through SS on the leak, and all around too.
So it boils down to a Grand Adventure, your on. It might take a little while/a few days to get things fixed, but you can do it. Just take things "systematically", and you might be able to do more of your stuff there too, then you think. So find a good Camp, and wash that engine down, and like you already said, fix the problems, before you leave there. You don't have anything that isn't "doable".
Good Luck and keep us posted.
We are now all parked at the walmart parking lot, and have permission from the managers to stay here for a few days. So we're in no big rush, as we sure don't want to get any further into the mountains with any kind of problems, let alone brake problems .
We've (my Dad [who and driving the deuce] and I) have decided to just sit and wait until monday and find a shop. #1 we would much rather go ahead and replace all 6 wheel cylinders instead of just the 2, so that we reduce a re-run event just a few hundred miles down the road. #2 We need to get this oil leak fixed. We are going to clean the engine as you suggested, and see what we can find, or if nothing else it'll help the shop.
Thanks for the post