Welcome to Texas, we've been here since Dec. 03/07.  Been in Waco a week, Athens a week, Shertz (San Antonio) for a month and arrived in Corpus Christie Sunday.  Up to now the weather (especially at night) has been cold.  Days generally pretty good.  It hasn't rained since we were in Athens, but a rain storm is now coming at us from the Gulf of Mexico and I'm looking forward to it.  Gives great reading time.

Have a good winter.

TomO.

Jerry watched the guy do ours last spring...he was very quick but Jerry got the idea.  Once you get the cylinder/casing down there are a few set screws on the end cap...once those are off the spring slides out.  Looked like an easy task but it does take two people...Jerry assisted the guy doing ours.

Let us know how it goes and we understand about getting to the sunshine...we have been in Phoenix and the weather has been great!

J&K