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A good friend of mine was a Wilderness Travel Course instructor for a few years. To do that she had to train up herself and a couple of those classes were Wilderness First Aid. I recall that she came back from one class really enthused about the quality of the training that she received. I've...

I used a heavy rubber bed mat in our pick bed. Prior to that our camper would move around in the bed quite a bit with the turn-buckle type hold-downs. If you are directly bolting the camper to the bed this may not be a problem.

Used to be that when buying a used truck that I felt that diesel was the best option for mpg and by extension, range. The newer gas trucks are getting older diesel mpg's unloaded, don't know how much they suffer when loaded. My RoT has had to become more flexible than it used to be. I went with...

The Blanc-Oh! came to us with a set of Mastercraft front seats already installed. I've sat in a similar seat for 1,100-1,200 miles of combined pavement and Baja dirt roads working the 2004 Baja 1000 so I had some idea of what they would be like. With "normal" buckets, like those in our CTD, I...

There's a thread here about that when it first happened. From what I know of that route (calling it a 'road' is being very generous) I'm not interested in driving it at all. Maybe back in the days of my 'glass dune buggy, but not with anything in current inventory. Local knowledge is a precious...

Ghost Town Rd., Yermo: http://www.peggysuesdiner.com/ We consider it a mandatory stop if we're nearby near lunch or dinner time. My suggestion is to go during the week. On the weekends if the weather is good you'll run into wannabee desert racer types "pre-running" the Road in everything from...

That would fall under the more than one connection exception. He went from working on house wiring to industrial wiring to working as an electrician at a power plant where they think of 4180 VAC as "low voltage" (that still requires Arc Protective gear to make or break connections). I think he...

Recommendations on remote start systems?

With our first camper I did it in reverse from you. I got the truck to camper wiring installed first. Then I added the solar. In that camper 100W of solar was enough to stay on top of the batteries in our normal use. After I got the solar installed I pondered if I really needed the truck to...

He found it amusing because people make such a big deal out of keeping them separate when they're electrically common. If they're electrically common then they're electrically common and where that happens really is of no consequence. That you might not want it to happen more than once was a...

If you need to maintain the 12VDC power port for other uses consider replacing the female with the Blue Sea System part as well as the male part. Those two will lock together with a 1/4 turn, yet both still work with 'normal' plugs and receptacles. Otherwise PowerPoles are a really good...

Even a mediocre radio will perform better with a well matched antenna. Don't skip the SWR tuning even with an HT if using an external antenna. One vehicle of mine has both Craig's linked radio and a 2M in it. One antenna mount, an NMO base. I swap the lead and the antenna depending on which...

In a house the AC Neutral and the ground terminals are common at the breaker panel. Nowhere else, just there. It was a licensed electrician who pointed this out to me as he thought it ironically amusing.

"... I must make Amends..... "

For stuff like non-potable water and other pipe fittings I use Lock-tite 545, but in some cases I use Hylomar. Hylomar is a non-hardening polyurethane blue goo that will NOT easily come out of clothing. You were warned! My local CarQuest stocks it, but not all of them do. Never seen it at any of...

The bag that most camping chairs come with to store them in.

Other than knowing that I only had one shot at cutting the hole, no issues but it is a fairly low mileage mod at this point. This is an older Hallmark door, but I'd guess that it is about the same thickness as our old Phoenix's door, and likely everyone else's too. I doubt that it is as secure...

I was told the same years ago. Graphite and aerosol brake cleaner is all that I've ever used on lock tumblers. No real experience in the kinds of temperatures the OP is dealing with, so not sure how or if I would alter what I do in those conditions. The door in our current camper has the...

That is what I would expect to happen.

The "So what?" comment reminded me of this. Dogs roaming in the farm area where my grandparents lived (not all that far from MarkBC) usually didn't survive the suddenly acquired acute lead in-deficiency. I might add that it was not administered by my grandfather, but rather likely the owner of...

I suspect that the E rated suggestion started out for the drivers of Rangers and Tacomas and has since permeated the thinking for every truck. Our CTD is on D rated tires. I run the rears at their max cold pressure (50 psi) when on the pavement. The fronts will vary depending on my attention...

If the trailer batteries are connected to the trailer frame, then when coupled to the TR they are (tenuously) connected to the TR's frame. I say "tenuously" because of all of the trouble this assumed ground gives in trailer lights. Not to mention that some trailer lighting sockets & plugs can...

Beat me to it, another vote for 17" wheels if they'll fit over the brakes.

Consider the shape that a falling water drop is always drawn as, or even pictured with high speed photography. The bottom or front is hemispherical because that shape offers the greatest volume for the least frontal area or the least drag. Look at the tail, water wouldn't form that way by...

Are you looking for task lighting or area lighting? Those BD lights look like they could perform the former. I would suggest that these lights be put on the porch light circuit. That way there is a "Master" switch inside to turn them off and not allow hooligans to turn them on or to forget that...