One reason that side engine radiator Diesel coaches are popular is that it takes all of those radiators at the back of the engine and moves them to the side where they make it far easier to access the engine, and they are out of the line of fire for oil coming off the engine
Excel Spreadsheet The process for picking appropriate size wires can be pretty confusing, but we’ve made it simple with an Excel spreadsheet. This allows you to enter your design parameters and see the effects on power loss as well as voltage loss. Download the Excel Spreadsheet here If you are interested in a detailed description
This is a companion to a YouTube video on the upgrade and goes into a little more detail on the trade offs between wet cell, AGM, and lithium batteries. You can watch the YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/dvhdrzzDqK4 Our coach came with four golf cart (GC2) wet cell lead acid batteries. While we bought the coach
There has been some interest in the photography gear I am using. I am in the category of “serious amateur” when it comes to both still and video photography. I’ve been taking pictures all my adult life, and have piles of 35mm slides, 8mm home movies, and videos that document a lot of my life
We’ve been working on updating our YouTube channel ( RV4X40 YouTube). There are a couple of videos from last year, but there hasn’t been much time to work on the channel recently, so that has been bumped up on the priority list as we get ready to do some more traveling. Since last November, we
Not so sure how this might ever apply to anyone else, or another coach, but I have been chasing a ghost, which has finally disappeared! We spent 3 months “work camping” at a national wildlife refuge, which is a whole other story about that, but we’ll save that for another time. Mostly due to not
We’ve had other RVs in the past before getting the 40 foot Diesel pusher we now have. We started years ago with a 34 foot motorhome on the then current Ford chassis with the old 460 cu. in. V-8 engine, and no slide outs (I don’t think they existed back then). Later on, when we
Never having been to Yuma, we decided to head to that corner of Arizona. Having good luck with the BLM (Bureau of Land Managment) camping areas, we decided on going to the Imperial Dam LTV (Long Term Living) Area near there. It is actually just across the border in California and is similar to the
At Ajo, we started to see some unusual cacti around us. Not very many, but a few. They were “organ pipe” cacus and this is the far end of their range. They are much more common further south. In fact, there is an Organ Pipe National Monument down at the border which is a major
After leaving Kofa, we went to the Imperial Dam Long Term Visitor Area (run by the Bureau of Land Management). It is near Yuma but on the California side of the Colorado River. We visited a couple of historic sites in Yuma (the old Territorial Prison Historic Park and the Quartermaster Depot Historic Park) and