Hitek Homeless July 23rd, 2008
The Truck:
2001 Ford F-350 Lariat
- Dual rear wheels
- Crew cab
- 4×4
- 7.3L Diesel (International)
- Timbrens
- Front and rear cargo haulers
The Camper:
2008 Arctic Fox 1140
- Wet bath
- Couch seating
- Full-wall cabover wardrobe
- 9k BTU Air conditioner
- No oven or microwave (more storage!)
- Thermal pane windows
The Bikes:
- Trek RST 3700
- Roketa MC-17-50T (Sicily)
The Internet:
Sprint EVDO service (for now you greedy bastards!)
- Novatel U727 EVDO card
- Cradlepoint CT350 Wifi router
- Dual-band Omni-directional external antenna
- 3 Watt Bi-Directional Dual-Band EVDO amplifier
The Network:
- Fujitsu Lifebook 1510
- Dell Vostro 1500
- ReadyNAS 600 (700GB RAID5)
- 2 Cowon A2’s for random movie/music access
The Blog:
- Wordpress
- Gallery2 image gallery
- WAY too many plugins
- Feeds by Feedburner
- Hosting by HostGator
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johnny December 19th, 2007
Monday night we drove the camper back to the campground through the Orlando highway system; about 45 minutes if you skip interstates and toll roads. Between the new brakes and the timbrens, it drives like an entirely different vehicle.
Its not quite a sports car, but it does stop with a lot more firmness and a lot less noise. While it won’t be doing pace car work over in Daytona, it certainly deals with corners and uneven pavement a lot better than previously. It’s still top heavy and prone to lean a bit, but there is no side to side rocking to speak of.
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johnny December 17th, 2007
It poured on us pretty good late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, but by about 9:30 in the morning, the rain had stopped and the clouds were clearing out.
With great enthusiasm, we hopped out of the camper (well, after wearing out the snooze bar and having a cup of coffee) and started tearing off one of the front wheels and the brake caliper. We broke a couple of cheapo sockets breaking some nuts free and had to run out for replacements, but eventually we got the caliper off and got to the brake pads.
And then we had to run out for parts again. Apparently the last guy to work on the brakes couldn’t be bothered with putting things back together correctly. He left off one of the anti-rattle clips and BOTH of the V springs. Eventually, we found a auto store with a ‘brake kit’ that consisted of 4 V springs and 8 anti-rattle clips. A whopping $20 for about one ounce of cheap steel… but if you don’t have it… Anyway, we now had what should be all the parts and proceeded to try and pull this apart:
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johnny December 16th, 2007
Today was a work day as we try and get the truck ready for a trip to North Carolina over the Christmas holidays. We were hoping to change the air filter, fuel filter, oil, the front brakes and add a set of timbrens.
We managed to get everything except the brakes done today. Thankfully, the rain held off, but it should come in full force tonight. We’re hoping it will be over by tomorrow and we can get the brakes done as well.
There was some mild excitement during the proceedings. Mostly, myself cursing the engineer that decided to use fine threaded bolts in the timbrens as I tried to get them to line up without being able to see them. The other exciting bit involved screwing the fuel filter cap down too tightly, which caused the gasket to bunch up and allow diesel fuel to spray out. It was a very fine stream, but between the wind and the spray, it covered the entire front half of the truck.
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jenn October 31st, 2007
Well something that I should have researched better is insurance. I have called my current agent a few times over the last couple months with questions about insuring the camper and F450s. Every time they would promise to research it and get back to me. Emails have gone back and forth as well. Neither yielded any results. I have given up on my agent. I have been spending the last week looking at my options. They are quite varied. GEICO being the cheapest and Good Sam (GMAC) being more than twice as much as anyone else. Just like my current Allstate agent, the folks that I spoke with at Progressive had no idea on how to insure the camper while it is off of the truck.
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