 Diesel, it's time to get up, man. It's time to get up, man. Your old man nap is over. Diesel, I don't think he's getting up. You don't learn a bit. So I'm at home for the morning today. Well, in the evening, I've gotta head out towards work really soon. We're just waiting for a video to upload and some laundry to get done. We've had problems with our roof laking lately again. I think I showed you that at the end of yesterday's video. So I've been up on the roof today already, shoveling off all the extra snow that has fallen in the past couple of days since the last time I was up there. And I was able to break off a lot of the ice that was dammed up on that side of the house over our bedroom. So I don't think it's going to leak in our bedroom anymore. But yeah, see that there? That came through there and onto our mattress. It's ice damming. So I was able to get all the ice off. There was probably about that much ice stuck on there, but I let the sun beat down on it for a little bit while I was up there and then I could break it off or sort of just kick it off with my foot. That was lucky, but there's still quite a bit of ice over this area here on the roof, right where this veranda out here, I guess that's what you call it, right where this roof meets the house roof. There's a little valley there. A lot of ice sitting up there yet, but it's melting off quickly. We'll go over and watch it go down. We don't have eavesdroff, so it just rolls off the roof wherever it wants to. It was pouring off before. Yeah, it still is, but you can see it there coming off pretty quickly. So I'm thinking within a day or two or a couple of days of some nice warm sunshine like this, all the ice should be off and that'll be that. We're planning on getting this roof-free done with metal later this summer. During the summer, it's not going to leak at all. It's just the ice that comes through. So as long as we get the roof-free done before next winter, we'll be good to go. So we have several months to save up yet. Britt was going to come on the truck with me today to BC. We're all excited about it, but since we had major leaking yesterday, there was two buckets in the kitchen, completely filled and overflowed just within like 10 hours. Three. Three hour? Oh, three buckets. Three buckets. Look at all the pails. So that's why I was up on the roof today, so it was not leaking in here anymore, but damage has already been done. At least we got no more water coming in and she's going to stay home for the next week or so until all that ice is fully melted off and then she's going to come on the truck. I got those for Britt for our three year anniversary. Three year. Well, it's not technically our three year marriage anniversary, it's just three year anniversary since we met, since I convinced her to. It's anniversary. It's anniversary since she allowed me to come and visit her and meet her. Not many flowers guys, that's twice now. I know. I'm a lucky gal. I gotta wait a while, otherwise you expect it all the time. Yeah, I wouldn't want them all the time anyways, makes them less special. I was just kidding, I get you flowers all the time. Yeah. They die anyway. But they look pretty while they do. While they die? Yeah. That's true. So we're going to wait for our laundry to get finished and our vlog to upload and we'll head out. I gotta be in BC on Wednesday morning. I'm filming this Sunday afternoon right now. So we got Monday and Tuesday to get there and today to get a little bit of a head start just in case there's some weather in the mountains. It's actually a really warm day out here. Like look at this, you can see the water just streaming off of there, right? Beautiful. Beautiful, that's what I want to see. So that's the top of the roof there. You see all of that? That's all ice and it's all melting. So that's good. This here is all the ice. I broke off the roof. Like look how thick some of these pieces are, right? That's what's damming up the water on our roof and causing it to go up under the shingles. Just crazy. I pretty much got all of it off on this end of the house but that's what the aftermath of ice damming looks like after you take the ice off. The true aftermath is inside the house and in the attic. Where all that moisture damage is going to be. We're going to be getting a quote, hopefully this next week, in the next week or two, how much it's going to be to get everything redone. Season again, all the water is melting or all the snow was melting part, me turning into water, getting into the cracks of the highway and then freezing overnight, expanding a rough travel experience for the users of the highway. I'll just call it that. It's right out here. Yikes. So I have a pretty good feeling. And my good feelings are usually pretty good. I have a pretty good feeling that it's going to be a good trip, I think so. A little concerned about my engine though. Like I said, I'm nearing 1 million kilometers which is 600,000 miles in that ballpark and it's going to be time very soon for an overhaul. The last time I had it in the shop, they're looking for where I was losing oil. The only place I'm losing oil is the blow-by which means, I think I explained this to you already, right? Oil is getting past the piston rings or there's a chance that it is. And that means the piston rings need to be replaced and that means the engine needs to be overhauled which is a big job. Oil tested, see what everything looks like inside the engine. You can get the oil tested and they can tell you how bad the motor is inside in some ways. Once I do overhaul this truck though, like I know what's going to have to happen sooner or later, right? Nothing lasts forever. At least then I know it's good for years to come, right? Very expensive, you know? Replacing our roof this year which is going to be, I don't know, the only estimates I've gotten is like a ballpark of like $15,000. But we don't even know that yet. We gotta get a, and then this engine will be probably around $20, $25,000 depending on what all needs to be rebuilt and overhauled in there. But they'll probably do the whole thing right away. Such is life. Westbound right now on TransCanada across the Canadian prairies. Stressed out about it now all. We just gotta have faith that everything's gonna work out. We gotta, what's the saying again? Put our nose to the grindstone along with them on the truck. And that sort of gave me the itch to be a trucker myself, I guess. I loved it. Some of my best memories as a kid. God for dad. And I hope I can be as helpful to my kids one day as my dad is to me and my sisters. He can fix anything. He is just the classic fix it man dad. Something broke called dad, he'll fix it. He'll tell you what's wrong. Or at least he'll know what to do. I called my dad, told him what's going on. Turns out I think I may have been wrong. Probably about 30. So I don't think the piston rings are the problem anymore on my engine cause there's no blue smoke. All right, he told me that if there's oil getting past your piston rings and into your crankcase, there's gonna be blue smoke coming out your blow-by valve or coming out your blow-by tube and out your exhaust, especially when you start it cold. But there is still oil coming out the blow-by. So, what he figures is it could be a sticky valve than doing a full rebuild if it was the pissed truck serviced them. The whole life of this truck, since it was brand new, it's been serviced with semi-synthetic oil. They didn't have any semi-synthetic oil in stock and I needed a service really badly and I needed to get back on the road so I told him just put regular oil in, right? B, that this engine is used to living on semi-synthetic oil and I put regular oil in it. It's not liking it. It's trying to get rid of it. That could be the problem. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna take a gallon of lupin. Is that what it's called? Oil treatment? Lucas, you guys know what I'm talking about, right? The white junk. If I need to add any oil, I'll add some lupin in there as well with it. And what that does is it adds, acts as sort of like an extra lubricant that's sealant inside your engine. It just helps the oil do its job better because it's regular oil. That should help. And then the next time I get my truck serviced, I'll go back to semi-synthetic oil with Lucas in there as well. You truckers know what I'm talking about when I say Lucas, right? Do that for a couple of oil changes and see if that changes everything. And if that stops the leak on its own, well, there you go. That was the problem. My engine just, it likes the good stuff. It's spoiled. It likes having the good stuff. And I gave it like McDonald's for a meal and it got the squirts. Sorry to use that analogy. I'm hoping that's the only problem. If there is an actual legitimate problem with the valves and this problem doesn't let up, well, then I'm gonna have to take it into the Volvo dealership, the Volvo shop. And they're gonna have to open up the engine and take a look. But from the symptoms that my engine is presenting, dad says that it's most definitely probably not the piston rings themselves. And it's probably just the top end that needs to be looked at. Worst case scenario. So you know, thank God for dad. And all of the experience he has, he's a very handy guy. And he's been through all of this before. Like he drove truck quite almost 30 years before. I even started driving truck and I've been driving truck for 12 years already. I started in 2006. That's even more. That's 13 years. Oh, wow. In October this year, I'll have been driving truck for 13 years. Wow. But I was local for the first while. I delivered locally within Manitoba and around Winnipeg. But I've been over the road since 2011. So eight years I've been doing this. Same thing as my dad. And he's been doing it almost 40 years. Wow. So I think he knows what he's talking about. He's been through a few trucks. He's been through a few engines. I'm gonna take his advice and do what he says he would do. And let's hope and let's pray and let's cross our fingers, whatever you wanna do that the problem is nothing serious. And I should say that it doesn't develop into something. It's not serious right now. That it doesn't develop into something serious. Let's say that. So I have a bit of an advantage. Having someone I can ask for or ask advice from. And then it just happens to be my dad. I hope I can do that for my kid one day. Like I'd love it if I had a son who got into trucking. I mean, I'm gonna open up as many avenues as I can for them once we do have kids. They can do whatever they wanna do, whatever makes them happy. But if they do decide that they wanna be a trucker just like their dad and just like their grandpa, I hope that I can be as helpful to them as my dad is to me. I hope that they can like feel confident asking me for advice like that. Speaking of kids, my buddy Moses and his wife Colleen are expecting their baby any day now. You guys remember Moses? He was a groomsman at my wedding. They're from Southern Virginia. And he's a truck driver as well. Drives a beautiful Kenworth. W-900, I'm jealous of his truck. But he's at home right now for a few weeks. They're waiting for their baby to arrive. It should be any day now. By the time you watch this, Moses might be a dad already. I don't know how many of you know him, but he's one of my best friends. He's a great guy. He's gonna make such a good dad and Colleen's gonna make such a good mom. I'm just so excited for them. I'm a little jealous. I'll admit it, a little jealous. I wish it was us as well, but super excited for them and wish them all the best. If you guys are watching this, if the baby is here already, I'm sure we've already all been in contact, but super exciting. I'm gonna end the vlog here now, though. Thanks for watching, everybody. I've gotta end this vlog because I've gotta start tomorrow's. There has to be a vlog tomorrow, too. And if I just keep talking today, I'll have nothing to talk about tomorrow, right? So, tomorrow we'll be starting here in Saskatchewan and we're probably gonna get to around Calgary, Alberta, headed west. To hit the subscribe button, if you like my videos, if you like my ramblings, if you like the scenery, for whatever reason, love to have you a part of the crew here. We're trying to get the channel to 100,000 subscribers and we're almost there. As I'm recording this, we're less than 11,000 away. So exciting. I've been working towards it for so long and it's exciting to see us getting close. 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