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I just checked the campground in Idaho where the West Coast Rally is held, and they are full for that week. I think there are other campgrounds and hotel accomodations might be available if you wanted to try to attend anyway. All of the HDT rallies have a rep for lots of information. The National in Kansas is somewhat aimed at new folks, but having said that it really doesn't matter, it's all good information for any level.

Almost always I will look for the signage to see if RVs are prohibited, they rarely if ever are. In the case of full parking lot or overhanging barriers I will drive around as has been suggested. If that fails, then we will look for a parking lot that has better access one or two lots away. When we decide park in a parking lot that has questionable signage we will go straight to the manager and ask.

I contemplate this from time to time. Have you found a good how to video, or are you just winging it?

We visited friends in a resort near Brownsville, January 21 timeframe. They never said anything about crime there. They had some medical needs and raved about the care they got being much better than their hometown. On the downside, they hated the constant wind! So they didn’t go back this year. We are in Mission for the first time and like it very much here.

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Merry Christmas all you folks! Thank you for another year of help and friendship.

Dang , that’s funny. Get out the plate stretcher. (Old pattern maker joke, “get out the board stretcher”)

Sorry you and your family are going thru this. Glad you are doing well. It’s hard to force yourself to let that help do the lifting, just let it happen.

I wonder if "nut-serts" would have worked? You would have had to drill a bigger hole than your bolts.

That’s exactly what I was asking for, Thanks Kirk!

Thank you, I love the photos on the site, and also the write ups.

And now I must add an update to this topic. We have been traveling in the year and two months since this post. We traveled from NC to KS. Then to TN. Then west again to MO, OK, then south to TX for our winter. It turns out we liked TX so we are going back for this winter. Spring and summer were a not-so-whirlwind loop from south Texas, to Tennessee, then to Michigan. Then west to SD, WY, and MT. Now we are a southern route, we left Moab UT and arrived in Tuba City AZ. when we leave the Grand Canyon we will travel south toward Phoenix and Tucson. The main reason I returned to this post was a search for places to check out for winters in Arizona for 2022. Any suggestions for a drive by? A second reason was to express my gratitude for your advice. Much has come true this past year. We have picked all routes by where we want to visit. With the exception of our trips centered around Yellowstone which should be a separate topic. We have met very nice people and a few are good friends now. We have seen some places we wouldn’t go back to, and some we have seen enough of. A couple we might return. As was predicted!! Still very much to see, and The Lord willing, we will see more.

We avoid big cities whenever possible too. Undecided whether to go to Taos or Santa Fe, but we will be forced to go through Albuquerque if we do, I think. This trip is our first to either CO or UT. We went south from 80 through Baggs to Rifle, then west on 70, because we were advised to avoid Denver also.

The square holes in the corners allow room for fueling? Or did you modify those since the photo? My (ahem) design allows for my hand or a fuel nozzle, but not both, and I think I have more room.

Why not Albuquerque Vern? I ask because we will be traveling through NM soon.

Missed this one, looks great Rick. I must add that I got a kick out of the duct tape screen you made.

Put a ‘chip’ in your windshield, did it?

When our D13 was doing that, it turned out there is a float inside the tank that gets stuck. The temporary fix might be to bang on the tank. I think disconnecting the sensor did not work. I didn’t try jumper-ing it. Had to have the tank replaced. Pretty easy job to do yourself, but on a D12 I’m only guessing it might be similar.

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I happened to keep the purchase paperwork in the binder as well, for no reason. It came in handy when I moved to a new state and wanted to prove I paid less than book value. Just a suggestion.

Just read this. Hope it’s running great still. I bought nox sensors from eBay also. Still good after 2 or so years. Maybe just luck, but that doesn’t fit the usual pattern. I bought some fuel in Rock Springs and a few miles down the road got the forced regen derate message. (Which we did. First forced regen ever) Check engine has been coming and going, and soot level has been creeping up. For the previous month I had been driving short distance without getting up to temp twice a day. During or afterward never got any messages. Then drove most of the day to get to Rock Springs. No message. So far I blame my errors on the fuel.

We want to see the photos. 🙂

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F2 is 25 amps. I don’t know how to measure the load. One thing I noticed, the fuse legs had a coating but not crust, just brown/orange color. We threw that fuse and replaced.