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Now your just playing with us----we want to see the "unwinder" work! Fun to see some fresh activity here as well. Jack

Clever guy. It's always fun to see just what can be done. We'll probably see more of these projects as PV technology continues to improve and better batteries come to the fore. Jack

Hello All. You no doubt have already read this article, but in case you haven't, I'll provide a link. Dick (somewhereinusa) posted it on another forum. I'd seen it a couple of years ago but then was unable to find it again. The story is about a two family trip across the US in a '29 Ford school bus ...

Hello All. I’m slow about posting the happenings of our brief trip in Clarence (toad to Honeysuckle Rose) to retrace the remaining bits of the “Ridge Route” here in So Cal. We headed out on June 13, with clear skies and an expected temp in the low 80’s—we weren’t disappointed. Because Clarence was l...

Hello All. A couple we like to camp with called us at the last minute last Friday to say they had scored a pair of camp sites at a local reservoir/camp ground we have enjoyed on other outings. This time of year it is almost impossible to come up with a site at a local campground--let alone two. Sinc...

Hello All. I had nothing planned for the day so I decided to fiddle with the little 2K inverter genny on Clarence's (Toad) motorcycle tent trailer. I added a kill switch which I located inside the tent so it wouldn't be necessary to get out of the tent to shut off the genny. The genny is pretty quie...

Hey Tango. The vent is a clothes dryer vent I found both at Lowe's and Home depot for about $4. I did a little grinding to get the vent to follow the contours of the bus and then took it apart and painted it with Dupli-color engine paint from Pep Boys (DE 1615 Aluminum) which seems to hold up well a...

Oh boy! I've got a camping trip set up for June 13-?? -- what ever it takes! We are going to attempt to follow the old Ridge route in So Ca from Castaic (just north of LA and the start of the famous, at least locally, Grape vine), to Oak Flat camp ground in the Angles National Forrest. It has been 3...

You got my curiosity up so I measured the front sway bar on my Isuzu framed bus--it is 41.275mm and is as solid as a rock. I'll have to crawl under to measure the rear sway bar.

I really like the look of that '55 Chevy. I wonder, does the same guy own all three of those Chevy conversions? Jack

I did the arithmetic on that. That is a hefty sway bar indeed. Do you have them both front and rear? Jack

Hello All. Thanks for fixing my pass word Stuart! Doctor science here to report on a brief study of the effect of a couple of computer fans on the operation of the dorm frig in Honeysuckle Rose. Since I couldn't play on the computer today (thank you Windows 10), I decided to monitor the activity of ...

Thanks Stuart! Microsoft forced Windows 10 on us a couple of days ago which has resulted in all of my pass words being voided along with a few other problems like not being able to print emails because there simply wasn't a "Print" button on the page layout screen for the first day and a h...

Hello All. I solved the problem of the genny not starting when it is cold out. It seems there was an update on the idle speed controller and as soon as I switched that out all is well. I had planned to repair the old genny by replacing the computer, but when I began studying the parts lists I discov...

Hi Dusty. Any improvement is good so I think you are on the right track. You no doubt have considered double action shocks -- the kind that work both on the up and down stroke.. I found them helpful on several of my early (70's) Chevy Suburban 4 X 4's. Jack

Hello All. We're back from a week in Yosemite--wish I could stay all summer. There were more campers than I'd expected this early in the season. The camp ground was full nearly every day despite the 60 degree daytime temps and the low 40's nights. I don't know how long it will last, but the Merced r...