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Or check with a Kenworth dealer they use good quality switches.

Your truck is cool...

I stayed at Wonderland RV Park at Jct 24 and 12 east of Torrey, UT. Rode Hwy 12 forth and back.

Pickups work really well if you tow full time at 50% of the we beat the competition ratings. They will haul at full GVW day in and day out. Big trucks are built to tow/haul at 100% all the time if ya want.

I’ve been getting a Verizon “unlimited” data Can-USA-Mex call and text plan with a 406 phone number. I’m not a VIP so family and my 2 friends are sent the number. I put my Telus plan on vacation hold for $10/month. I have the same plan except data is limited on my home mobile number. No roaming charges, no daily charge. This winter I may keep my own phone going, reduce its data to save a few $ a month and get a Verizon “unlimited” hot spot plan instead.

There is a reasonably priced basic campground in Cameron on 89 with pull through sites. I used it as a base to put the two wheeler on the ground and rideabout the south rim area. Its in the Navajo Nation. Some of the hotel staff live in mobiles behind the rv park and wave howdy. 89 quiets down at night. North side there is a boondocking area about 20 mi south of Price I cannot remember the name of...sumpin overlook...

Ohhhh.... sous vide means food cooked in warm water but not stewed and not on the manifold of the Cummins... sounds yummy me needs to try this...

Like the orange “job box”

Do sous videsz taste like chicken?

My camper has an over the air HDTV antenna. 40 miles SW of Tucson in the boondocks I could receive 56 channels 80% not worth watching and the other half stupid stuff.

Or a long trailing arm single axle with a fluffy coil spring ...🤔

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We never own “too many” engine powered machines. We own too many batteries.

I do a bit of moto tent camping. Cots are ok in warm nights. If it gets cool or cold out you fweeze. A 4” thick Thermarest mattress is comfy. A Thermarest on a cot is purty comfy.

Kirk & John - truck 1 has a 136amp alternator (Dodge diesel) and the diode system on it. It’s cables to the camper are at least as heavy as the battery cables. With the engine running I measure 14.7 volts out at the isolator, and 14.6 at the camper batteries. I was thinking I would use the same gauge wiring etc on Truck 2. Previous campers fridge with through roof top vent would stay lit on propane while driving. New camper will not. It has sidewall upper vent. New camper has 170watts of Zamp solar equipment. It all works fine for my little bit of energy needs when boondocking. I don’t like pummeling the batteries with low voltage while driving. It also forgets to switch to propane when you park not on shore power when the fridge is left in auto mode. I think it senses some last bit of surface charging from the truck and says “I can stay on DC”. If you are on shore power and disconnect it auto switches to propane. This I discovered one -20F evening Walmart docking in Helena when I had brain flatulence and forgot to switch fridge to propane and my heating system shut down at 10.5 volts like it is supposed to. Tracked some snow in on the door mat that had melted at bedtime. It were re fwozen at 0 4 hundred the next morning 😯. Lit the fires in the Cummins and everthin come back to life. In Alberta we call this “the freeze and learn method” 😀. I will probly wire to the batteries. This camper has removable insulated belly panels that gives access to all the tanks and etc in the basement so I can make a proper job of it. Thanks

Kirk - truck 1 has a 136amp alternator (Dodge diesel) and the diode system on it. Truck 2 has 150 amp alternator (I think) F350 6.2 gasohol and no isolator equipment - yet. I like your idea to use a mechanical relay. Yes the camper is easily unloaded so I do that as necessary.

I have a diode isolator under the hood on my camper truck, with battery cables run through a marine circuit breaker to an Anderson quick connector. On my previous truck camper the battery compartment was near the front on the driver side. I disconnected the 12v wire in the camper connecting 7 way cord and run the cables directly to the camper batteries. This setup supplied sufficient amps to operate the fridge on DC when driving and keep the batteries charged. New camper is a Cirrus 820. The fridge will not stay operating on LP when driving, and the DC mode puts a strain on the OEM DC arrangement. It has the batteries in the right lower rear, as far away from the alternator as possible. 😀 The converter is in the step to the bed overhead. Should I run new cables from the isolator all the way to the batteries, or can I connect at the converter? I’m thinking cable to the batteries...

Probly posting in the “wrong forum”...there got that outta the way... I would like to lift a single axle narrow body cargo trailer to give it better ground clearance. I’ll try to describe my bright idea: I’m thinking about a walking beam tandem, kind of like a Hendrickson HT, in miniature. I would use a single spring pack each side, and a double acting shock absorber on one end of the walking beam for dampening. Depending on length, walking beams impart less and less vertical movement at their pivot point the longer they are... and transfer tire ground loads 50/50 at all times... What if a guy used the existing axle spindle (and rubber torsion unit as suspension) as the pivot point of the walking beam? Yes the beams would be made stout enough to stand side load skidding the tires during sharp turns.

When I drive, walk, or ride up to a port of entry I: 1. Consider it to be knocking on the door of a foreign country, requesting permission to enter as a visitor. 2. Am fully prepared to be denied entry as a visitor. 3. Totally honest in my brief to the point answers to any questions pertaining to my planned visit. 4. Not inform the border guard how “we do it in (insert home here)”. News flash: they don’t care. 5. Would, if asked “what I thought” of a current President or Prime Minister, or whatever the leader’s office is called, attempt to satisfy the border guard that I really don’t think most of the time. As in, “I don’t really follow the “news”... who is in that office at the moment?” I sure as h e double hockey sticks would not go off on some smart ass tangent. What a way to wreck a good trip to see some scenery and meet some local people.

What rim size? Nitto Duratracs come in high load rating for 17”. But they are considered “3 season” I think. More choice in 18” rim. I have Toyo M-55’s on my truck camper hauler F 3 fitty. They are a famously rugged tire on gravel and rock chit in our resource industry. Expensive but “wear like a pig’s nose” They sing a little on smooth pavement but tolerable. They do not have sidewall lugs like an off road oriented tire. Do you need all weather including snowflake rating?

Drivers in Alberta may now use digital proof of public liability insurance or a paper certificate.

Idea #2: I have a light little 22’ flatbed made out of an old travel trailer chassis. It has slipper springs and about a 12” equalizer with greaseable shackles and bolts. It rides smooth too. Fancy off road trailers have independent trailing arm axleless suspensions with coil springs. (See Turtleback Trailers Phoenix)

A walking beam works nice to prevent all the weight of both wheels ending up on one wheel through a ditch and it keeps weight 50/50 whether the trailer is level or not. The smoothest trailer I’ve towed with the little KW in the last couple years was a rented 36 foot beaver tail flatbed. It had tandem dual wheel axles on a 84” walking beam spread with no suspension besides correctly inflated tires. I’m thinking on how a guy could do this on a small enclosed sometimes off highway garage trailer vs single axle pothole pogo stick or bounce-a-matic spring or rubber ride... I have a 8’6” wide enclosed that is too big for my needs now and low to the road. I took the opportunity to check the wheel bearings at one wash I was crossing seeing as I was skidding the ass end of the trailer on the slick rock and all 4 wheels had daylight under them momentarily...

11 uneventful crossings AB-MT, AB-AZ by air, and BC-WA so far this year. Small Ports of Entry are preferred. Documents ready, questions answered briefly. I don’t expect a foreign country to be like home that’s why I visit.

We had a door fall right off a Norcold fridge while provisioning for a limited time of freedom (work vacation pardon my language). Makes a hell of a mess to clean up sitting on the launch pad. There was an update kit for the flimsy original hinges.