by Randall Chapman | Sep 15, 2023 | Camper
I recently made some upgrades to my off-grid electrical in my camper. I was starting to have some issues with some of the systems and it seemed a good time to upgrade a bunch of components. When I built the camper, I had a lot of things to build and buy, so I made...
by Randall Chapman | Apr 18, 2023 | Camper
The vehicle repairs continue, at some point I’m bound to run out of things to fix haha. I know I’ll always have something to work on but it would be nice to go like a year without having to do an emergency repair. The latest fix, that put me down for a...
by Randall Chapman | Nov 25, 2022 | Camper
This has been quite the year for vehicle repair, some of it is to be expected though. The truck sat for several years while I figured out what I wanted to do with the transmission/transfer case. Shortly after I got the truck back on the road the serpentine belt...
by Randall Chapman | Aug 14, 2022 | Camper
Well, the trailer finally got an upgrade on the leaf springs. I’ve been thinking for a while now that I should do it but I’ve been busy with a lot of other things. A couple weeks ago the driver side leaf finally gave out. I noticed that the wheel well was...
by Randall Chapman | Mar 28, 2022 | Camper
So it turns out that the issue wasn’t resolved with the rebuild of the tranny, at least not the major issue. Where we left off, I got the truck all back together and it was acting like it was stuck in 4 low but after shifting it back and forth between 4 low, 4...
by Randall Chapman | Mar 11, 2022 | Camper
The truck had a major blowout a couple of years ago. I was driving over Monarch Pass in Colorado hauling the camper and trailer when the transmission gave out on the downhill side. It was on a Sunday so it was $450 to get towed 9 miles to the Gunnison KOA. I called...
