Category: Projects
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More Power Project
The ability to camp overnight without needing to plug into the grid is something that would be helpful, especially when transiting to a destination. The van has a single house battery that hasn’t really held much of a charge since we bought it used. Our project is two-fold: 1) Replace the existing battery with one…
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Screen Door
Beth repurposed a spare screen from our defunct screen tent to work in the van. She slipped the edges behind the big door gasket and it looks like it was designed to be there. Keeping things cool and bug free will be most welcome during summer adventures.
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Mother’s Day Projects
We did see Noah yesterday on Mother’s day. He took the time at school to engrave a card on acrylic using a laser in the new fabrication lab. It shouldn’t surprise us that he would find a unique method of making a card. On the RV front, we found a telescoping soft brush that makes…
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Valve Stems
Sprinter 3500 vans have dual rear wheels for weight handling and Pleasure-way installs good looking hubcaps to improve their appearance. This combination makes it almost impossible to reach the valve stems. Polling members of the Pleasure-way Yahoo group, we found a solution named DuallyValve. You can see the valves before they were installed below: The…
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Robinson Fuso
Did a double-take and turned around after passing this unique RV parked in a local independent Land-Rover service lot. Turns out Robinson-Fuso has had many interesting adventures and the owners, Jon & Emily Turner, publish a great blog. Check it out at: http://robinsonfuso.com
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First Check-up. What’s Underneath?
All vehicles need maintenance, so we scheduled our first visit to a Mercedes-Benz service department. Even though we only had 4,868 miles, we thought it would be best to have everything gone over in the 2013 van. Took it to Leith Mercedes in Raleigh guessing that they have more experience than the new dealership closer…
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