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Labor Day was almost here at this point, and I needed to get my Alaskan travel trailer ready for my sis & BIL to use. They usually sleep in the back of his Tahoe, so they were pretty psyched. This is the camper I’d originally bought for the IH, and then changed my mind on, so I’d never used it...

I had gotten sick of this moisture intrusion by now- So, with some self-adhesive foam from McMaster, I fixed it: Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I did one more camping trip to The Gulch (Rollinsville): Leveling up with my new Anderson levelers into a much better spot than June: Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Thanks-- glad to hear it!

Next was a little trip to Overland Expo. Some cool rigs to see, interesting merch, but it didn’t really feel like the place for a shade tree-engineered rig with redneck overtones. One thing I did get a kick out of: My house wiring “hub”- The one on a converted rescue truck- Some rigs...

Alrighty then. After a grand misfire and a great weekend, I stayed away from that damn IH. We were in time-out, needing our space. Around the middle of June, I got the push I needed to solve this fuel problem in the form of a crawfish boil at my BIL’s mountain retreat in Rollinsville, near...

That's the corner slide channel, which won't come off without separating the upper and lower sections of the camper, IIRC. Way too ambitious for the potential benefits, in my opinion. I'll just use some sort of plastic edge tool and some mineral spirits, and call it good. Bryan and I have had...

I’m very interested in this thread because the sealant on my Alaskan is uniformly hideous everywhere. Example: Yuck. I’m going to try out that plastic paint scraper remedy when the weather warms. Thanks! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Forgot to update. Labor Day weekend in paradise. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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Excellent! There's more to come, but I'm sick of fighting Tapatalk's photo uploading problems for now.

Departure day finally arrived, all fueled, watered, and packed up— time to head for Walden. Woo hoo— two and a half years in the making! Walden or bust! Bust— this is how far I got before the fuel pump quit pumping: It didn’t quit operating, it just quit moving fuel, like it vapor locked...

We’re in the middle of May, at this point, with a couple of weeks before the Memorial Day deadline. New fridge installed & working, house electrical system complete, with isolator, circuit breaker, and all cabling done; wiring for camper clearance run. Just needed to come up with a cooler mount...

At this point, I decided to give the muffler shop down the street a shot at replacing the dual exhausts and their screaming glass-packs: They failed the first attempt, routing the crossover above the front drive shaft and over the clutch access cover: It’s the louvered sheet metal behind...

I also tested the oven: It failed, only heating to about 260° when set to 350°. Another purchase added to the list… Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

While the fridge space was open, I installed my new inverter/charger: and its remote: I also installed a cold-air return for the furnace, and a USB outlet: And then I wired the USB outlet, fridge, and house 12V supply to the fuse panel: The house 12V was originally pulled from the...

First on the list became the fridge. I’d run it on gas, plugged it in, run it off 12V, and nothing worked: it simply would not cool. I even turned it upside down for a day and tried to run it after righting it, because that’s what the interwebs suggested. Nothing. So it was out with the old...

Now we’ve arrived at the all-RV portion of the build. With a few exceptions, the big-iron wrenching is done. For now. Things happen.

So got the new wheels mounted up & I went for a shakedown to a buddy’s place: Then it was time to load up on Harry’s trailer & head south: I was looking forward to this like an IRS audit because of all the construction on I-25 along the Front Range, and I was almost proven right on a...