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Not sure about the need for an air cylinder shutting the IP of. The governor should shut off the fuel anyhow when you take the foot of the throttle. Only to give fuel again just above idle. Unless you want yo use the exhaust brake below idle rpm there would be no use for that air cylinder ...

Unfortunately not much to show for. Cut the bottom fiberglass above the windshield straight.. welded up a bracket that connects the cab/ bed unistrut frame to the A frame post.. tested how much the fuel tank had to be lowered to get access to the fuel cap now that it is mounted under the...

Great job, nicely excuted in the "backyard".. I am sure had that dreaded feeling with the snow delay that it would never come together. We're you able to deal with (remove) the extra wiring from the ambo setup? I love Econoline 7.3 powerstrokes. Have used several for camping builds. All a...

We have the 20V DeWalt chainsaw. Mainly because of the batteries we own. Works great to cut fallen and dry firewood at the camp site to size. It is quiet and does not disturb or alert people and it takes up little space. We have diesel campers and solar so charging is easy. And yes they can...

First attempt at a floor plan. The 404 cab section is not to exact scale. Only the driver front wheel is in the drawing. The two part rear side door will be modified I to one smaller door of 700 to 800 mm wide. About 200mm will interfere with the wheel well. Entrance and walk thru shower are...

We are back from our 9300 miles American South West.. Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico. Took our two dogs and four chickens along.. ( skoolie.net...dory for trip report) Back to the 404. Got the welding on the subframe done. We reconstructed the 404 swivel frame with the solid crossmembers...

There is not enough readers on this forum so I will stop this thread . We are now at yoshua tree. If interested you can follow this trip at skoolie net ...Dory 2023. With regrets. Johan

15 Jan 2023 A quick update,. Dory pulls elfie prettie good.. in 6th gear 1700 rpm 55mph.. computer limited. Drove partially in the night to arrive in meridian ,MS. Last time we visited a nice industrial steam museum here but unfortunately it is temporary closed. Now at a Wally Lowe's parking...

Today was a slow day, we started a chicken routine having them outside in the grass..then I fixed the non operational heater fan.. burnt contact on the blower relay..cleaning and a spare relay did the trick.. the flashers were a bit harder.. I had replaced the original flasher with a Audi on...

11 January 2023 The things you forget are corrected with the credit card. Oh well. I forgot my thermometer that I wanted to use to measure between the lifephosphate batteries. It was freezing last night. We had a slow start.. between getting used to be on the road, the general chaos we left in...

10 January 2023 High noon,6 pm .. at the last moment I found a bolt embedded in the small bus ( Elfie) tire. When I fiddled with it , it started leaking air..this is a 245/70r19.5. Good exercise with the tire irons. Yesterday my friend Ellis pushed the spare Dory tire on the roof. Today at the...

This is the setup , still have to experiment with the brake buddy b vantage select. Yesterday I got stuck on the snow so I had a good time testing the winch. Yes the tires were bald and I was on my way to my shop to install two new tires.. Good excersize for on the road. Changed 19.5" tires by...

We are going 81 south to get in hopefully better weather. Not sure if Dory can pull Elfie up the hills so we we might uncouple at some moments.

03 jan 2023 Dory 2023 trip to quartzsite hamfest and palooza Well at least we hope so. Still prepping and finishing critical stuff. Plan to leave state college,PA in the next couple of days. Nothing is ready or tested. Don't sleep very well anymore because it feels like it is more then I can...

Howdy folks, we are already a couple of days on the road. I will upload some more from the first 5 days of our trip. Dory is low floor city bus that I converted to take my mother, 94 and dementing, in a wheel chair to go on trips. My mom passed several years ago and since we have taken Dory...

Very nice Lain, VErmonster, good idea with a resistor, a little more work but less storage and cheaper. I have used several bms designs and yes readout with bt or wifi is nice but I would not trust software driven bms at this point in time.. I use hardware stack active balancers and a separate...

Regarding your ladder drawing.. If you mount your actuator between the platform and the tank. Raise the ladder pivot point as high as possible on the platform or at least make the setup that the actuator pushes against the ladder so that it angles out first and make as mechanical stop that...

If one set of 4p rises faster maybe one cell is bad or there is something wrong in the parallel wiring. I did not go back to see if you posted a picture of your configuration. You do not mention your charge amperage. If all the connections are good then I would take an adjustable power supply...

As Peter said,. Boats have a lot odd curved spaces and so they have cooling units available... Another way would be to buy a small ice maker and use the ice in a conventional cooler. We use a slide out for our microwave made from two ball slides that are screwed against the side of the...

This is similar then what I had in mind for a kitchen against the backdoor of my unimog skoolie conversion. I was thinking heavy duty ball slides but there has to be a solution for the weight so that it is easy to lower and raise against..pulley with garage door spring??? I am not far enough...