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  1. Volvo Crankcase Ventilation Separator-replace or rebuild?

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  2. Work to be done on the 780

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    Impressive stuff!  Saving for the hardware, and learning and knowing where to find answers, is what you have been doing all along and doing it well.  Now you have found a way to get the knowledge you might be lacking.  My hat is off to you.

  3. Attention Visitors and Lurkers - Please Read and Respond to this Request

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    3 hours ago, MLM said:

    Definitely interested in switching from traditional heavy duty pickup to Class 8 tow

    I would like to know if & where there are events to visit & speak to people about their experiences & why they chose their particular truck for towing their 5th wheel. 
    Thank you, 

    ML 

    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.

  4. Parking for shopping? No heavy vehicles allowed

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    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.

  5. What did you do to your truck today?

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    3 hours ago, jenandjon said:

    Getting ready to pull the passenger door apart. The panel is broken so the inside door handle won't work. I have to try to fix it because used door panels are $200. New are $400. Most places want to sell me a whole door for $300.

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

  6. Brownsville anyone!

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    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.

  9. Bed Build Planning

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    29 minutes ago, rickeieio said:

    First, I dug around and found I had JW's email addy, so dropped him a note.  Hope it still works.

    Second, I went to the shop this morning and spent an hour or more just cleaning up.  Sweeping the floor (grinding makes a mess), sweeping the top surfaces of the bed, putting tools away, winding up cords and air lines, etc.  Then I aired up the truck to see how the wheels aligned with the cut-outs in the vertical sides.  Oh crap.  One opening is off a good bit.  Not pointing fingers, but it seems the pattern maker didn't compensate for the truck being aired down, and the metal cutter/welder didn't check either.  Adjustments needed........  Worst part is, we noticed a discrepancy in the patterns left/right, and figured it was because the passenger side tool box is 6" longer.  Not so.

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

  11. Bed Build Planning

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    2 hours ago, rickeieio said:

    I had a bright idea that backfired.  Spent way too much time taking a shortcut that bit me, so now I'm back to drilling out holes and welding in nuts. 

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

  12. First year wintering in the south

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    7 hours ago, Kirk W said:

    I'm not sure exactly what you mean but will make a couple of suggestions anyway. For RV parks we have stayed more than once at Saguaro RV park in Benson, AZ as a good place that we have stayed. If you want to stop around Tucson, I suggest Pima Co. Fairgrounds RV park, just east of Tucson. If you hare traveling back toward TX, stop at Dream Catcher RV park at Deming, NM. Places to visit are Casa Grande NP, Saguaro NP, Organ Pipe NM, and Pima Air & Space museum.

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

  14. First year wintering in the south

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    Posted · Edited by Sculptor

    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.

     

  15. Socorro NM to Carrizozo NM

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    3 minutes ago, Wrknrvr said:

      I really do not like interstate travel. Nor do we like traffic. 

     

      Today we traveled from Casper Wyoming to Scott’s Bluff Nebraska, then south on route 71 and are spending the night in Rocky Ford Colorado. Well it is hard to believe there is so many square miles of open grass land on that road. Some neighbors are a few miles apart. Some stretches are hilly and some have ravines. There is some farming but not a lot. Also they are harvesting sugar beets around Scott’s Bluff. Never new they had sugar beats that far south.

      So just looking for something different.

     

      Vern

    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.

  16. Drom box

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    On 10/5/2021 at 10:10 PM, wlp said:

    844363125_truckframelayout.jpg.836d115131d821bab60db50eec40f6ae.jpgI am laying out the frame of the drom so I can still get at my bed's access pannels 

    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.

  20. Volvo D12 Low coolant shutdown

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    Posted · Edited by Sculptor

    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.

  23. Volvo D13 headed for DEF Derate

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    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.

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