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Please post up if/when the sale happens. I wouldn't want to expend any of my dwindling psychic energy on a sold truck. :sombrero:

There's no question that the alcohol stove is a safer alternative. Unless you are running the appliance directly of a disposable cylinder, there's a lot of "best practice" stuff you do to make propane safe, including storing the propane in a vented locker isolated from the living space, which...

My experience on the campers is that it's the best temporary attachment method you can find for messy conditions, Not perfect, but it can be hosed off easily and it doesn't hang onto stuff too much. Way better than Velcro, which tends to get a lot of stuff stuck in it that won't come off until...

The biggest issue will probably be whether it cooks fast enough for you. 8-10 minutes to boil a quart of water. Otherwise there are a lot of advantages, the fact that you just cut a hole and drop the stove in being a big one. I had a one-burner Origo. It was fine, though I was somewhat...

Being as the Jeep is pretty much done and functional, most of the work these days consists of modest "scarcely rocket science" attempts to optimize use of the truck. One of the ideas that surfaced some months ago that hadn't been worked on was the plan to make the floor panel into a useful...

Not mistaken, I don't think, but I can only speak with authority on my own setup. I can't say for sure whether it was a happy situation. The winch pulled only on the streetside edge of the roof/bed as it pulled it up to vertical and that would have introduced uneven forces on the rear hinge and...

Your point is a good one. Remember, though, that the "huge interior space" it has over the revised design is entirely bed, with most of it unusable, even for storage, unless you climb up into it. There's not any more floor space available to you for non-sleeping activities. And with the...

Some Photos from The Old Days This might interest some . . . I was in my old Picasa albums organizing some old fiberglass shell pictures when I came across a few pictures of the XV-JP after the tent was gone but before the EarthRoamer roof-raising mechanism was disassembled. My memory isn't...

Thanks, John That means a lot coming from someone with a vehicle of your sophistication.

Quickie Tillamook State Forest Trip Hard to believe that in the last post I made about an XV-JP trip, I was bragging about the spectacular weather. Rains pretty much all the time now. But since I can't stay home until the rain stops (another 6 months or so), I went out for a quick run to the...

So . . . got back at it today and moved the Airtabs, which I'm still expecting to work, farther back on the cabin roof, one on each side, about 6 inches in from the side edge and the front edge about a foot from the rear. I attached them to the underside of the nose cone, instead of to the...

In a desperate attempt to get the thread back on topic--I hijacked my own thread, pretty much--I thought I'd show you the interesting/useful uber-Velcro I came across. The backrest for the XV-JP's "sofa/lower berth" looks like this: and just rests against the cabin side at whatever jaunty...

Thank you, John. In years of ExPo discussions about the need or non-need for SRWs, this is about the best report we've had. I'm sure I'm not the only one to appreciate information based on personal experience with a heavy truck, rather than speculation. Much appreciated.

You've got lots more experience than I have. However . . . the word was that a Sprinter should not be idled significantly at its 700 rpm (more or less, can't remember for sure) idle speed. If you wanted to idle for a use like you had. or for an ambulance or other emergency vehicle, you were...

Sure look like they ought to go the other way round, don't they? But they don't. The directions are very clear: and the picture of the yellow Corvette above shows the proper orientation. The idea is that the air flowing into the Airtab turns into a swirling vortex, which in turn eliminates...

That's only fair. I drool over you guys' photography.

Color me impressed with your wide knowledge. Yep. A (short for this kind of thing) 36 foot U320 with 11 liters of Cummins M11 with a whopping 1440 lb/ft of torque and a wonderful Allison 6-speed with a very trick magnetic retarder. Huge tank capacities, 10 KW diesel generator, 800 amp-hours of...

I've gotta believe, based on the one at EarthRoamer being #11, and that it's a 2011 truck, that the total is eleven. I would suspect that some of the early ones would be not much more than half that, assuming the Jeep wasn't too optioned up to begin with. But with only eleven, and the people...

Well, that's a fair question. Let's see if I can explain. But also remember that the generator comes and goes, and more often than not doesn't make the trip. But when it does, here's why . . . First, I don't really have lots of batteries. (My Foretravel, with three 8Ds and three Group 31s . . ...

And to visit the XV-JP I tried as hard as I could to sell him last year. :sombrero: