Just Spotted you heading NB on I5 in Washington. Truck looks ************ on the road.
Thanks man!!
Shacked up for the night in Fort Nelson. So far things have been pretty ok. Border crossing went well to my suprise!!
We spent the first night in Ski Hist in a provincial campground in the Frasier Canyon, so far it has been the most amazing place I have ever seen. The river is just amazing and massive with giant canyon walls thousands of feet tall. The road through there is simply awe inspiring. Hills, curves and some crazy curved downhill tunnels line the route.
Figured the furst night we would take it easy with the camp spot and it was well worth it, we found a couple trails from the ground and did a little hiking with the dog, fired up a camp fire cooked up some dinner and chatted with a few folks from Victoria BC about the camper. They loved it. Everywhere we go, people stop and stare at it.
Got up the next morning loaded everythign up and hit the road. That is where we found our first problem of the trip.....no heat in the dodge. Well, no fan to be exact so no vent defrost or anything, good thing I spent all that time putting the ac back in.
We got up the road several hundred more miles and stopped to get some groceries and ice for the drink cooler. Tore into it a little bit....well, when Kristi came back out, I had most of the dash out, the hood open and all my tools scattered around the truck. I have switched 12 volts at the fuse panel into and out of the fuse. I have no 12 volts at the switch on the heater control and no 12 volts at the fan motor either. The little resistor pack in the cowl had gotten really hot, even scorched the insulation around it, cleaned up that mess, cleaned all the terminals and put it back together and still nothing. Time to hit the road so it has been that way for two travel days now.
Made it to Bear Lake last night. We had an amazing spot, up on a little bluff, right next to the lake and some trails. We both got hot showers yesterday afternoon and that was refreshing to say the least. When we got back to the trailer and tried to fire up the lights, everything was dead. no lights no pump no nothing. We must have killed it the night before or left something on in transit.
Checked the battery and it was dead, like 3 volts. So I start troubleshooting and find that there is blown fuse from the trucks 12v source to the trailer. Get that fixed, fire up the truck and voila the battery was charging again.
We went without TV or anything powered last night to save the battery.
Today we hit the road a little earlier and had no problems with the truck. Drives great really, little rough on the nastier sections of the old alcan highway but its got great gearing and great power. I have only had to be in 4th for a couple of the biggest hills we have seen in the last 700 or so miles. The biggest one today was 10% grade, pretty much straight down, then back up the other side. Hills up here make my other previous hills look like flat roads, Cabbage Hill in Oregon and Soldier Summitt in Utah are a couple that might be longer, but as far as treacherous or steep have nothing on highway 1 or 97.
Made it to Fort Nelson today and was pretty dead, just shy of 500 miles of this type of driving wipes me out, so we stopped for the night, got some wifi and macaroni and cheese for dinner. Good Stuff.
Did see one really nasty wreck. Fully loaded double semi and a one ton crew cab chevy pickup head on....apparently the pickup driver was drunk and after seeing the wreckage I doubt that eiter of them survived.
just about 1,300 miles under our belts so far. Hoping to get to Summitt Lake and Liard Hotsprings tomorrow and keep on trucking.
Anyone know if there is a relay for the blower fan tucked away somewhere I am missing?
Sean