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On a non work related note, here is one of our camp spots just north of Gros Morne Park in Newfoundland. It's not exactly a pot of gold but considering the fun we had that week it's pretty darn close.

Our old bike had was similar in that when the rack is empty the rack can be folds up to reduce length. The pivot point of both the old and the new have a lot of play so even though all the other components have wobble reducers the hinge is just something that will bounce around.....until it...

My solution was to add some cross members to their cargo basket and use those to mount the Thule box. At first I was going to just buy two of their proprietary clamps and fab up my own mounts but I imagined that we would inevitably stuff wet tarps and crap under the Thule so I went the path of...

Saris started making a rack they refer to as MHS. The concept is that you can clamp different modular components onto the center bar depending on what your sport is. The biggest version can carry 4 bikes or two bikes and a cargo basket. Here's a close up of the clamp from the underside:

The last big item on the to-do list before we leave for the mountains was to find a very accessible way to carry our ski's. We do have a huge Packasport on the roof but that's 13' off the ground and getting the ski's out of there between mountains was shaping up to be the most dangerous part of...

There were two other big items on our priority list and we've got solutions to both of them. First, we wanted to go through a dry run of a tire change. Turns out our lugs were torqued to over 500 ft-#. So first we destroyed two 1/2" drive cheater bars. Next we figured out the published values...

Our cabinet situation has been mainly Tupperware and bungee cords but we made a slight improvement to the pantry by adding these $20 slides. We still hope to build real cabinet drawers at some point but when it comes to Form meets Function it's looking like the function side of things is...

It's been too long since we've posted any updates on the build but it was a full summer of Adulting. No complaints as that was followed by a full fall of traveling with the truck. Newfoundland in the fall is worth no progress on the build but winter is coming and it would be real nice to pull...

4.3 from the factory. With the increased diameter the speedometer is low by exactly 25%

On the other end of the temperature spectrum we got a "reduced engine power" warning from running too hot. We were in Big Bend, air temps were in the mid 90's and we drove from the river up to Chisos Lodge (about 3,500' of gain if I remeber right). We stopped at most of the pull outs and if it...

One morning I tried to get a little stingy on the heating time resulting in a really, ugly rough start. The check engine light came on and I got a "reduced engine power" warning message. I let the truck warm up and subsequent restarts were clean but the check engine light stayed on as did the...

Item 4 of the learning curve was the block heater run time. I noticed a pretty 'clunky' start on one of the 20F mornings and started using the heater anytime the lows dropped below freezing. We arent using blankets or anything else except an anti-gel fuel additive. I lost my notes on this one...

Thanks mog. Considering I stand at a whopping 5'-7" a little step stool could come in handy.

Not being able to get the tires spinning in the muck segways into Item 3. We had quite a few 'The little engine that could' moments climbing up steep grade. A few times I thought we were going to be the big engine that couldn't. If we didnt carry 5 mph into some hard switch backs I feel pretty...

During our extraction excercise I tried turning traction control off. I didnt realize that 'Stabilitrak' stayed engaged in 4H. It automatically disengages in 4L...if you can make the shift :) After the fact I figured out if you hold the traction control button down for about 10 seconds that...

That takes us to item 2, being heavy. Our rig Wanda doesnt do well in soft stuff. Her rear wheel loads are about 7,300#. In SW Utah we were in 4H and slowly rolled onto some moist clay-like quick sand. You can see the front tire tracks that rolled right over it. The rear wheel... not so much...

Now back to some of the topics from our driver's ed experience. Item 1 was the getting the front differentials to engage and dissengage. The first head scratcher came up when we were trying to drop from 4H to 2wd and the front differential stayed engaged until we smacked a couple of pot holes...

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