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Thanks mk216v. It's been 13 months since I went down the tire worm hole and the X Force wasn't part of my previous learning curve so I'm going to have to come up to speed on that. The Purcell tire recommendation is incredibly helpful as I'm currently parked about 20 miles from one of their...

Happy New year Stench! Have you put any miles on the Michelins yet? After 24k we've about worn through our second set of Conti MPTs and I need to go in a different direction: Michelin XZL 365/85R20. Both sets have had ripples/waves in the side walls after less than 5k and while I have been...

I recently installed the water pump control module recommended by Alloy. It improved the situation greatly but unfortunately did not eliminate it completely. The capacitor solution I want to try hasn't come together yet as I'm on the road and trying to meet the Amazon fairy hasn't been easy...

Thanks Alloy! That seems like a slam dunk. The way I see this going down is that I will try my home made capacitor solution. Curiosity will kill the cat and Ill fry the pump, just the pump hopefully. It'll be OK though because I already bought a spare pump so I'll buy the product you suggested...

Our current system is 12v 1200Ah (lithium). From the battery bank the most positive wire goes to a disconnect then to a "master" bus bar. The most negative wire goes to a Victron shunt then to the "master negative" bus bar. Wires are 4/0 and about 3' long each. I'm using a Paneltronics DC...

I recently installed an Espar hydronic system with a Rixen control board and interface. I noticed that the room temperature readung would occasionally flash ERR. Eventually I figured out that the error would only happen when our water pump was running. The water pump is a 7.5 amp Shurflow 3...

As for the next set of tires I've been pretty happy with the Continental MPT81's. Unless the tire compound is soft and might cause some problems in the future I'd probably stay that route. In putting new ones on I was going to take the opportunity to put in a tire pressure and temperature...

There was one point of the trip where we got hit with 8' of snow over three days. Lots of fun stuff happened that week but it's safe to say the tire chains came out. We are using Super Z Cable Chains. When the roads improved and the chains came off I noticed that the cables had cut into the...

That said, I have yet to tie the habitat glycol heater into the engine coolant system so I still have to run the air heater in the habitat when we are driving. This fall I will add a heat exchanger between the two systems so I can steal heat from the truck while driving. (I dont want to risk a...

The main reason I'm so happy with the Webasto for cabin heat is that it's fuel efficient. Even when our habitat is hotter than the thermostat reading the Timberline system wants to keep the glycol in the system at or above 156F (best I can tell). Needless to say the exterior furnace drops...

Timberline Heater gremlins Back in December I noted we installed a Webasto EVO 40 air heater. We are SUPER happy with it for a number of reasons. I'll get to than in a minute. During the install I noted I found a loose electrical connection that resolved the Timberline Error 48 code...

Storage boxes: We carry a lot of recreation gear (skis, boards, bikes, packs, fishing poles, yada yada). I had previously posted about how I rigged a regular roof box on a Saris cooler tray. That concept worked great but the bike rack arms are crap. After a few months one of the swing arms...

It's been sometime since I've put some time into any build updates and I need a good excuse to dodge the heat so here goes. The purpose of this build page was really supposed to be more about sharing mistakes more than anything so I'll get back to basics and start telling on myself. Shy of a...