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In eastern Canada last month I saw two modern Fleets on Tacomas with Massachusetts plates. One was in Fundy National Park and the other Fundy Trail Provincial Park (in New Brunswick). A week later I saw a 2000-ish Grandby on an F-150 with California plates at Kejimkujik National Park (Nova...

On last month's trip to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, I had an odd thing happen with my Bluetti EB3A power station. I don't use it a lot as I have a house battery. But I take it along for convenience, typically to charge up a light or camera or phone. A few days into our trip I found my...

Hoopy, can I ask how you know when it’s time to change the glow plug? Are you doing that when something’s wrong or after a certain number of hours or ???

I'm guessing it's a variant of this idea...

Wow-- thanks for posting, Vic. That was a close one. Glad to see you made it through unscathed. This topic led me to scan through the Jasper subreddit ( reddit.com/r/jasper ) where I saw a link to an interesting NASA fire map showing the fires near Jasper... (scroll up and left a bit to get to...

Happy Canada Day to all Canadians (except perhaps that one RCMP officer in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. That rolling-a-stop-sign ticket last Fall cost me CA$230! (Yes, I did roll the stop sign but geez... $230?))

I'd say we tend toward the minimalistic side. We camped in the 70s and 80s in bare station wagons and vans and a sailboat using cheap foam mattresses, coolers and backpacking gear. We did eventually get a VW camper van and an older Chevy class B but they didn't have a house battery, water...

In my opinion a diesel heater is a viable option for a truck camper as they can safely produce a dry heat, they operate economically and (if optioned for it) they can operate at elevation. Downsides include (1) installation can be tricky (in a slide-in camper) (2) you have to deal with another...

I see in this Scout video about the diesel heater that the comments include a reply to "TheJensss" where Scout says the heater is an Autoterm one. Also, the controller appears to be Autoterm PU-28/Comfort Touch control panel. The heater in the video is in a hard-sided Scout camper. I...

The links below go to descriptions of my using 3M Adhesive Remover and Citra-Solv to remove old velcro adhesive from my 01 Hawk... Post 22 (3M Adhesive Remover) Post 26 (Citra-Solv) Earlier in the thread (at post 10) I also mention trying Goof Off, Goo-Gone Extreme, and acetone. They didn't...

I believe it's an early 80s Sunlite Eagle with an updated interior. My brother has a 1984 Eagle so that's what had me looking for photos of Sunlites. Scroll down to the photos in this post and compare. *RIP* Fixing an old Sun Lite TC (Roof latch positions, cabover shape, and the rear door...

I believe the thermostat wires for that furnace are blue. You may be able to see the two blue wires running together through the cabinets between the furnace and the thermostat location.

That appears to be a Stable-Lift system. I remember seeing articles about it in Truck Camper Magazine.... Weld Done: Stable Lift Factory Tour Stable Lift: Pros, Cons, and Feedback

I had another success with the super-cap jump starter today. This one was a Harley at a lakeside picnic area in Withlacoochee State Forest near Brooksville, Florida. The initial voltage reading of the failing battery was 11.4. The charge-up took about 3 minutes. The device worked as...

There's a step-by-step guide to how FWC has traditionally installed the truck-to-camper wiring in this post. It includes a diagram showing wire colors. Note that the Attwood plugs have odd colors--- (yellow, black, and blue). Please note that this is an older diagram so it shows an older...

Update on my portable diesel heater.... 1. My suitcase-style portable heater sits outside and pushes the warmed air into my van through a 10-foot duct hose. That means about six feet of the hot-air duct is exposed to cold outside air before it enters the van. I recently bought Eberspacher...

Yes, I was able to get them off once I took the toilet outside and liberally doused it with water while working at them with a micro-fleece rag. Cleaning sprays didn't seem to make a difference. I've seen that idea of adding deodorant to the upper tank but also know the instructions for mine...

I'm probably not the only one to have gotten an unpleasant surprise when opening the slide valve on a Thetford porta-potty. The lower tank is a sealed compartment so changes in elevation can cause pressure buildup inside the tank. Open the slide at the wrong time and distressing things will...

Thanks for the info! I appreciate it. ---------------------- While I'm here, let me provide the following additional info I found since my last post, this from a listing for the SuperCap2... Note: When the car battery voltage is lower than 6V, SuperCap 2 will not automatically turn on. It...

Just a quick post to document a problem I had with one of my Buddy heaters--- the Mr. Heater "Portable Buddy". This is the 4000 and 9000 btu, single-ceramic-panel model (MH9BX). Though I didn't realize it at the time, this started when I tried to light the heater and couldn't. I eventually...

TGK- if you've not already done so, you might check fordtransitusaforum.com and do some searches for larger tires to see other user experiences with those. I went a bit larger than stock on my Transit. It's a 2019 mid-roof 148" with the Quigley 4x4 option (which includes a 2" body lift) I...

Yes, it's definitely an interesting concept that you can use a battery that's too discharged to turn over the engine to charge up a device that WILL turn it over. The biggest complaint I see is that it may not work if the battery is discharged too far (and I'm not sure what that threshold is)...

Back in 2014-2017 or so I had three lithium-battery micro-starters-- an Antigravity XP1 and two Whistler Jump-N-Go units. My brother also had two Jump-N-Go units. Within three years of purchase, all of them were unusable and the batteries in all of them had expanded and broken through their...

Yesterday's email brought a notice from NOAA that it's time for me to renew the registration for my PLB. I took care of that this morning and thought I'd make a quick post in case anyone's interested in the topic. By way of background, I bought an Ocean Signal rescueMe PLB1 off Amazon in 2020...

Mel- I had a similar problem with the Atwood in my 2001 Hawk. I found the center wire of the electrode was broken loose in the ceramic insulator, allowing it to turn when it's supposed to be fixed. My furnace's unreliable-start problem turned out to be the electrode Also- You mention your...