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Hey Jerry, I finally got done with your posts, sounds like you really had a great summer! We hit many of the same places, Bend, the 3 Sisters, Lassen, Crater Lake, Tahoe....I stopped just outside the East entrance to Yosemite. Glad to hear you got in lots of peak bagging! Smiley and I did...

Hey Jerry, I just found your thread last night, wish I had known about it earlier and we might have been able to connect while you were on the west coast. Anyway I had only read up to page 8 so this morning I jumped to the end to see when you were leaving Montana! What a surprise to see you are...

I just got to Portland area today, I came up from Eureka, into the Marble Mountain Wilderness and then through Cave Junction and Selma to Grants Pass, so I missed Medford, sorry. I should be going through there on the way back south though, about the middle of August. Vic

I was just passing through going north as well, just got to Portland OR today! Have been having a good time hiking and enjoying the beautiful sights!

Thanks Jeffrey, beautiful....but looks too cold! Vic

Heading north Just a note to say that I left Santa Barbara, CA this afternoon and am heading north along the Pacific Coast. I need to be in Seattle by Aug. 1st and want to be back down to Tahoe by the end of Aug. and in L.A. mid Oct. The rest is flexible. Return route will be down the Cascades...

Hi Andy, Vic here, we just met at the roadside viewing area north of Santa Barbara, CA. I have been having a great time reading about your GXV build! Still only up to page 10, but will have to finish another time. It was nice meeting and talking to you, will see you in the morning if you don't...

Hi Hani, I bought 3 because I run everything on electricity, and wanted to make sure I had enough for a couple of cloudy or rainy days in a row. After losing one I decided to wait and see if two was enough before buying a new one. So far it has been enough and I've never gone below 70%, so at...

Hi Mike. The camper is bolted to cross members of the aluminum bed through the floor of the camper, it is also bolted to the frame in the front of the bike garage, which is quite securely bolted and screwed to the camper using galvanized steel straps. The aluminum bed may be less flexible than a...

Hi Rogue, Thanks, glad you enjoyed the read. I hope to be up your way this summer, going north in June, south in Aug (?). Will try to keep in touch, will be good to meet you. Vic

Hi Garrett, Thanks for letting me know about the DR! I will be in Arizona by then, probably north of Phoenix. I've had a problem with my inverter lately, think I have it fixed now. Seems to have been just a poor connection with the input cables. I did have to get a new refridge last summer, the...

Still trucking! Been a long time since I posted here. I spent the summer in Minnesota, then headed west through the Badlands, Black Hills, Yellowstone and Glacier, and then south through Washington, Oregon, arriving in Los Angeles in October. I am now back out in the desert south of Palm...

Time to bring you up to date, hopefully my experience will help someone else! It took me 3 days to replace the turbo. The bolts were really rusty so had trouble getting the old one off but finally got it. Then I ran into problems trying to put the new turbo in, just couldn't get the bolts and...

I was told by a mechanic friend that the price I received was way too high, so I called an Isuzu dealer and they said the turbo by itself was $1311. I was first told $1800 by the repair shop. Those were both with a core exchange so they do rebuild them! They gave me a final price of $2300 total...

Thanks for the info guys. I ended up taking it in to a repair shop today and just got the bad news from them now, it is a problem with the turbo, probably the waste gate I think he said. He also said it is not repairable, the whole unit needs to be replaced. He estimated about $2500 to replace...

I need some help from you experienced Isuzu owners/mechs. My 2001 NPR has 78,800 miles on it and just recently it started making unusual noises. It started as a whistling noise when I would accelerate or was pulling a little harder, not at a steady speed on level ground. As soon as I would let...

Great to see the video of the road into Peru. I lived there for 6 years and never learned to not pray on the mountain roads! I was in Cotahuasi Canyon, in S. Peru, about 10 hours from Arequipa. Everywhere we went from there was on roads like the one you showed. Thankfully there wasn't much...

Thanks for all the input. Flounder, that is the info that I was looking for, appreciate it. I don't live anywhere 'fixed', living full-time in my camper, usually away from any city! I was just in Minneapolis for a few weeks visiting with family, and it was as I was leaving there that I...

Anybody know about these bikes? Any good? I can't afford a good name brand bike. Looking for a good basic bike for cross country mtn biking, nothing super technical but love a tight twisty course. bikesdirect.com sells the Gravity FSX 1.0 for $330, including free shipping. I have never heard of...

We soldered them on.