I pulled the plug on the 'looong' ride today. All that hype and big talk! Geez, my bad.
Anyway, long story- short: I had a gut feeling today, about an hour or so before I was to blast off, that a little electrical glitch might cause a problem along the way. I don't feel it would be fair to impose a roadside rescue for a problem that I knew about and couldn't resolve. Normally I would just take off and worry about it later, but maybe I'm getting too old for excess drama.
The guys that were helping were great and I can't say enough about them or thank them enough, but my faith in humans went up a bunch, and I have some more people I can now call 'friends'. You know who you are and I hope I can repay you.
The 'glitch' seems simple enough, but stumped me. The turn signals became erratic and then quit working. And no brake lights. Bulbs would light up when the turn lever went left or right, but not flash (blink). For a while we could jiggle the wires coming out of the turn lever housing and the blinkers would be ok for a bit.
The lack of brake light for a cross country trip would be nuts (IMO). Turn signals I could live without. And to top it off, if the engine was running and you moved the wires around to try to get the blinkers to work- the engine would stop.
Of course we changed both the turn levers and the box on the firewall- no fix. Other than that, the truck was ready to roll out. I'm still thinking I should jump in and take off... but I'm in the airport.
Again, I apologize for the false alarm, but I will come up with another crazy idea to make up for it... and soon I hope.