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I would assume "free RV" is even less free than "free car" and your descriptions seem to be validating such an assumption.
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I think "Free RV" is somewhere between "Free car" and "Free boat" in the list of most expensive objects in the universe
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theparag0n posted:I think "Free RV" is somewhere between "Free car" and "Free boat" in the list of most expensive objects in the universe I made $300 of the Free T Cruiser.
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Jun 11, 2021 09:58
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Rhyno posted:I made $300 of the Free T Cruiser. Long term health effects not taken into account.
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kastein posted:My *hip* went through the roof while I was patching it. I'm hosed, I'm going to have to redo the entire structure I'm assuming. I made it waterproof again but it's not pretty. Are these wood or metal house frame? Metal framing is usually some 1x1 or 1x2 along the edges. Wood is similar materials, with a ton of staples/glue. If its an aluminum frame it will tout it on the marketing materials. It honestly doesn't mean much as it still needs to rely on wood otherwise the aluminum will just crack. It will still use wood around windows and vent mounts. In the middle of the roof its all "structural" 1/8" plywood glued to styrofoam. Facets like vents and such will have some wooden/metal/plastic reinforcement framing around it, sometimes with a crossmember that ties it into the side beams(A/C). These are built in sections, from the inside out. The exterior walls are built on a table, pressed together, then bolted to the coach. I've a ton of reference photos if you need anything specific. The "shop" that rebuilt the roof on mine just threw another layer of 1/8" over the rot and then a new rubber layer on it. Complete bullshit and a 100% hack. Peel off the rot if you can, throw down some new plywood with liquid nails or whatever (epoxy!), skin over that with aluminum or fiberglass, Glue the roof vents and hatches down with 3m-4200, forget about it forever. Their hack made it a 200% chore to fix the solar panels to the coach. They've held up fine though. 30ish up Shasta is painful as hell. I'm betting the thing has no pryometer too so there's no indication to how hard its working. My old rig pulled ~45 through that area, though I did get sandbagged by an old lady in a class-c which meant yeah about 35-40 till the turbo wasn't blowing hot air. My worst was the 9% grade coming out of death valley onto Panamint springs. dirty air filter, lousy rad, 100F ambient, ~25-30mph. brutally slow, brutally hot. 12mpg is pretty good for what it is though, I'm averaging about 9.5. The big pushers/buses and such run 8-12 so you're not far off the mark other than not having their power.
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kastein posted:Alarbus is correct. My wife inherited (well, early, they realized they weren't safe to drive it anymore, nor fix it, and wanted it out of the driveway) a 1994 Safari Trek 2830 RV which we will be living in while we build the barn and house. Then restoring it after. Found a couple of videos showing one in good shape - that's pretty drat nice. Especially for free.* (it'll cost more than a brand new one by the time you're done...) Also found the same spec sheet Alarbus ran across. The gently caress were they thinking with that engine in something meant to hit highway speeds? I'd expect a Detroit or something equally beefy, not that puny rear end Isuzu. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Jun 12, 2021 |
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theparag0n posted:I think "Free RV" is somewhere between "Free car" and "Free boat" in the list of most expensive objects in the universe But mostly it's just going to get waterproofing silicone painted onto the roof next time I'm out there (so we can take the tarp off) and livability improvements till we have the barn built. cursedshitbox posted:Metal framing is usually some 1x1 or 1x2 along the edges. Wood is similar materials, with a ton of staples/glue. If its an aluminum frame it will tout it on the marketing materials. It honestly doesn't mean much as it still needs to rely on wood otherwise the aluminum will just crack. It will still use wood around windows and vent mounts. In the middle of the roof its all "structural" 1/8" plywood glued to styrofoam. Facets like vents and such will have some wooden/metal/plastic reinforcement framing around it, sometimes with a crossmember that ties it into the side beams(A/C). These are built in sections, from the inside out. The exterior walls are built on a table, pressed together, then bolted to the coach. - 1/8 - ERROR: DOES NOT COMPUTE No pyro, the answer to how hard it was working is "my right foot is literally sore from pushing the drat pedal into the floorboards for a thousand miles". I just got home and peeled out of the drugstore parking lot by accident because I jumped on the drat throttle like I was still hauling 11k lbs with 135hp  My rough plan was something like that - pull it apart, see how it was put together, put it back together better. The outside skin isn't really rippled anywhere (probably mostly because most of it is aluminum!) and I want to keep it that way. I'm very curious about how the roof support structure is put together. Some of the sections of Shasta and Siskiyou were so bad I moved into the breakdown lane to let dumptrucks roll past me in the slow lane as I chugged along because I didn't want to gently caress them over or lose any momentum myself. Legal? Probably not. But it served everyone's interests better than anything else I could come up with. I think we passed less than a dozen vehicles in a thousand miles.
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So in a dozen miles a thousand cars passed you What's left on the house now, you think you'll have it up before fall?
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kastein posted:
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Oh I know, this time it's just got wheels. Honestly, all my houses and jeeps are the same, rotten basket cases with bad sills and/or roofs. The difference is I am NOT touching the structure on the RV until the shop and house are built... by me... correctly. I slapped a bunch of Henry Tropi-Cool White 100% silicone roof sealant (about the consistency of cold molasses, you brush or roll it on, comes in gallon cans) on the worst spots and that got us to Washington without any leakage, it started leaking the first time it rained up there so we tarped it. I'll probably head back in a few weeks to register some of our moving trailers there, prep the construction area more, talk to the county building inspectors about my plans, and put another gallon on the rest of the roof so it'll actually be watertight. At that point it can remain half rotten until I have my big shop ready to work on it in. Never doing major structural repairs on a house/RV while living in it again.
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kastein posted:Never doing major structural repairs on a house/RV while living in it again. I too learned this the hard way. It cost me an awesome platform and nearly everything. STR posted:Found a couple of videos showing one in good shape - that's pretty drat nice. Especially for free.* (it'll cost more than a brand new one by the time you're done...) Yeah agreed, that is a really really dinky engine for a RV. Like doubling the power with a 5.3.... then putting snails on it.. Detroits aren't found in anything smaller than the largest of pushers. For the small/midsized class-a its 6BT/6CT in this era or some disposapillar (3126/3176) (80s ran king with garbo 8.2 detroits, 3208/3206 disposapillars. All in N/A flavor.) kastein posted:- structural Oh you want to keep it mobile? what are you thinking for a repower? There's probably not much that can be done with a 4 pot idi making all of 135hp. Pump is probably set really conservatively so that it can't melt a piston. fwiw we had better luck cutting physical cardboard footprints of the solar and playing tetris than he and I did with building a model in CAD and placing solar that way. Same, the whole 'structure' of the camper is this Elmer's glued together luan poo poo. Lmao. Just lmao. how does this fly! The actual oem stuff is thinner than 1/8. Its like 3/32" or something of that nature. Fairing filler and a sander make it what it ain't. 6 mos in, only one epoxied joint cracked and that's my fault for not re-skinning the section. Careful with "pull it apart see how it was put together, put it back together better." He was very "one project at a time, no creep, no taking this thing apart to the point of being unable to reassemble".... 2 weeks later: The whole curb-side and bunk is stripped to the "studs" full reno ahoy. E: I'm in central Oregon and probably will be tooling around the PNW for the next 2 months or so. If you wanna sling some wrenches I'm down.
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I actually already measured the opening in the floor for exactly that reason. It's 22.25 wide and 28.75 long, iirc, though those notes appear to have not made it into my google keep file on it. I know it's just barely too small to fit an LS through  The 3.9 seems reliable but holy gently caress it's so gutless. I want something else in there eventually, after the barn's built. Unfortunately I'm already back in Mass for a bit. We had a hard deadline because we had to pick the dog back up from doggie spa resort club and the chickens needed food and water by a certain date. Since it's not waterproof yet and the parcel isn't ready for it to be there yet (it's staying under a tarp in a neighbor's yard, luckily we have awesome neighbors) I'll probably be heading back out in a few weeks for another run and we might even be moving out there permanently before the end of your stay. You're absolutely welcome to come by at any time, hell, if you want to camp there for free to keep the loving druggies off it, I can give you the location and tell the neighbors that you're cool before you show up so you don't get run off. It's a great little area of anarchy, basically everyone on the street agrees that the rules are "don't gently caress with anyone else's happiness for no reason and gently caress the drug den at the end of the road". End goal on the RV is essentially that, if we have to strip it to the studs to get the rot out, so be it. I don't WANT to do that, but I will if I have to. I just hope there's enough of the roof structure left to make patterns off of, since it's all curved and poo poo. The walls are just right angles, I can patch that poo poo in my sleep, it's squarer than my last house was. e: I got a dirtbiker/former XJ+ZJ guy in Bend who you'd probably get along well with, too.
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Heh go from a 4BD to a 4BT. There's a little on the internet for those, some mention the turbo kinda sucks. At least its intercooled. Throw some gauges on it, bump the timing. Do some runs, slowly increase fuel but keep it a haze under boost. (pull a gp after a good run to see if its getting too hot from too much timing). Someone mentioned bumping the timing to 16deg. No idea what its running for an intake or exhaust, Pyro temps can be reduced through screwing with those. IMO? swap it. Bolt that engine to a generator head and make it drink B100 or whatever. The curved roof will probably be a pain but its all RV stuff so its a house of cheap cards and done in the cheapest laziest way possible. Worst case? flash it with some 1/8" curved aluminum like whats used in box-truck upfit bodies. Yeah figured out you were back home already which is no biggie, not like we're on some timeline or anything. We're trying out the area to see if its where we want to buy. Probably another 3-4 weeks in Oregon before rolling into Washington. The desert SW didn't work out in that regard. You gave me the coords a while back though I'm not gonna show up without planning and notice for all parties involved, actually, is the plot next to yours still on the market? I don't mind scaring off methies. I'll actually be in Bend later next week to grab some MTB parts and paper maps for the region.
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The 40 acre plot to the West of us I don't think is on the market, but I bet the right amount of money would take it. It's a bad market for this right now but I bet if you waited a few months and offered some cash they would sell. Trees on it are like 20 years old IIRC, it's a nice piece of land. There are a few parcels further south along the next leg of the road that are currently on market, I think one is 5 acres, unlogged, and asking 70k? A few of the guys connected to the organic farming co-op(?)/cult(?) on the next three parcels over are considering that one, mostly just to keep it from being logged or methed. There's a few logged parcels for sale too but I suspect you'd prefer trees. All of those parcels are closer to a primary line and transformer than us and the 40ac one, so they're probably worth the extra cash right there alone if you were planning on grid tie in, honestly, even though I'm a stingy gently caress and hate paying prices with more than low five figures for anything. The $70k parcel is basically selling for what the loggers paid for ours with timber, plus what it'll cost us for grid tie in, even with the market being way up. 4BTs have a stupid price premium, though I do think they're decent. I'm actually considering an LS still, even if I have to make the hole a little bigger or put it in in pieces, they're a crazy attractive price per hp... and I already own a drat 345hp LQ9 I could dump in there with an Allison 1000 out of an 8.1 truck/avalanche, shove a cam in, and have triple the horsepower it has now. I need to double check if it'll clear the frame rails, if it will, it's a done deal - don't care if I have to pull the intake and heads to get it through the hole.
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WELL  Our house out east is shockingly empty. Should help making it much easier to finish, we're in the final stretch now.
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Your moving process must be terrifying. I'm cleaning out my apartment to move this weekend, and just that small space had So Much Crap.
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Jul 30, 2021 02:17
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How many pods?
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Jul 30, 2021 03:31
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Just the one so far. I've known this was coming for several years at least so I've been using up car project parts, returning anything I ended up not using to home Depot for store credit (which gets used on paint and mud), selling stuff off, and giving away literal truckloads of things I deemed not worth selling. That's been in process in earnest since like 2017, and I did a bunch a few years before that just to make the place more livable when I met my wife because I'd been living the bachelor life for half a decade and the place was a horror show. The last two years I've really kicked it up a notch, I've gone from something like twelve cars (one or two running at any given time) to seven (5 running or will run in 5 minutes or less), soon to be 2 to 3 cars that all run, and we fit almost everything from the house into a single 16ft pod. I would pretty confidently say that I can fit all my remaining tools and project materials that I'm moving into at most one more 16ft pod, possibly even a smaller one, and there's a good chance I'll just use a trailer instead. It looks like a U-Haul 6x12 enclosed would cost a quarter what the pod does and a U-Haul 20ft truck would cost about half the pod price... Not including gas. Either way it's good to know what it'll take. We got a crazy amount of stuff into that pod, I wasn't sure if we were going to have way too much extra room due to lack of prep or nowhere near enough room but I certainly wasn't expecting it to fill that nicely.
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Jul 30, 2021 05:11
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Do the PODs have a weight limit?
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I believe the limit we were given was 4500 but I looked at the pod itself and the manufacturers rating was 7440. Then I messaged a friend who works there and he laughed at me a lot for even thinking about it, said he had one on his forklift that was over 10k that day and had seen significantly heavier than that pretty regularly and that they literally do not give one poo poo and just give a number to keep people from like, filling them with cement blocks. The driver picked it up and drove off with it, no fucks given.
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Good luck man, that's awesome!
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Do they give you tie-down points or something in the pod, or is everything just kind of loose like a moving van?
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Some of the D rings were missing in ours but yes. We Tetris-mastered it in there pretty tight till just before the third stud, put plywood across the stuff, a few bikes in, then ratchet straps across all that to keep it from sliding towards the door. Then made a backup wall out of shelving unit shelves and rope, then more bicycles and ratchet straps, then the tires (and more ratchet straps), then tossed the random stuff that was left on top of the tires. Hopefully it'll stay put. Elviscat - thanks dude! I'll let you know when we're headed out to unpack it.
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Anti archives bump. We'll be out there permanently pretty soon.
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kastein posted:they literally do not give one poo poo and just give a number to keep people from like, filling them with cement blocks. imagining a Gil Gunderson scheme to traffic cinder blocks, lol
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Those who read my rants about busted rear end cars already know but we arrived last night. We'll be working on the property in a matter of days but first we need to get the RV a bit more ready, etc.
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kastein posted:Those who read my rants about busted rear end cars already know but we arrived last night. We'll be working on the property in a matter of days but first we need to get the RV a bit more ready, etc.  I can't wait to watch your sanity further dwindle.
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H110Hawk posted:
sani-what now?
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Crosspostin'kastein posted:I think I went to that Lowes 4 or 5 times today just because of my complete inability to plan or write a complete accurate shopping list. Also I repainted the entire RV roof with Henry Tropicoat White and it leaks about 90% less now. Uncertain if the remaining leak is from the gaping hole in the weather cap on the AC unit (likely) or the fact that I couldn't recoat the filon roofing where it went under the AC unit (somewhat likely.). I've got another 3/4 gallon left so worst case I can get the AC unit blocked up a bit and recoat under it too. Today we did government paperwork related to the move, retrieved our tools from the hiding spot at the back of the property, pounded in the posts for the front gate, and cleared the driveway of brush and blackberries. I also spent some time with my spray paint and 300' tape measure pretending to be a surveyor, but forgot to bring the metal detector so didn't find either of the remaining AWOL corner markers. Tomorrow we hope to get the gate hung, move the log out of the way for the last time, clear the landing pad we'll be putting everything on for now, etc etc.
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kastein posted:Crosspostin' So exciting, more adventures!
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kastein posted:Crosspostin' Rv AC units have a gasket that fails. Sometimes you can just tighten the mounting bolts a little more.
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We actually just discussed that on the RV forum I'm on. I have a new one arriving tomorrow but I pulled the unit today to paint under it and it's not the gasket. Gasket was well adhered to the roof by years of pressure, had to peel it off the filon by pushing the AC up from below and prying the edge of the filon down with my fingernails. Here's the roof progress from before.  The cap is hosed but the hole is over the condenser area so it wasn't the issue. Still needs replacing.  This little foam cover keeps water from above from backfeeding into the evaporator area and dripping down into the interior.  This one doesn't, because of some loving rodent. I'm pretty sure this is the actual problem.  I needed to pull the unit and paint under it regardless so I'm not super sad about needlessly replacing the gasket.  Much better. Not great and paint adhesion likely won't be perfect but honestly it only has to last about a year or two so whatever.  I didn't take any pics of the finished product. I temp patched the roof hole with a 17x17 piece of double wall cardboard box and literally painted the Tropicoat directly over the whole thing. It sealed great, it's been raining fairly heavily for hours at this point and the leak I was targeting has completely stopped, the underside of the cardboard is bone dry so I'm sure it's not leaking from there since it would sponge it up. Tomorrow when the gasket arrives I'll pull the cardboard back out and put the unit back down, then rtv and styrofoam the condensate drain cover together. However we have another loving leak. It is 4 feet uphill (across, given how it's parked) from the last one and I'm 99% sure it's coming from the chimney cap for the refrigerator. I'll dig in tomorrow I guess... . This thing is a money and time pit just like a boat, except upside down.
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Forgive me if this has been covered recently, is the plan to live in the RV until the Theseus house is sold and and the move is complete? How many more cross country trips do you guesstimate you’ll need to do?
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The plan is to live in it while we build the new house, yeah. I'm guessing one more, with either another trip or a second pod shipment in the spring. I've still got my hangar space so all the things I need to move out of the house before selling it but can't drag across the country yet will go there for now, then in the spring I'll pack that all up and either drag it myself or pay someone to drag it.
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Why not put up one of those carport things are park it underneath? It won't leak if it had a roof above it
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That costs a lot more than the roofing paint does and I believe even requires a permit out here. I can paint and bolt whatever I want on my drat car any time though. It just happens to also be a house. Today it rained like crazy but I still managed to find one of the missing parcel corner markers and cut a few paths through the blackberries. Hoping to find the last one tomorrow morning, then I can start laying out where things go.
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I understand that “kastein” mode is one notch past 11 on the hardcore dial and you drove across states with mad max fury road soundtrack tape blasting on the stereo, but is the plan here to take an abandoned RV and spend a winter on undeveloped plot of land? What’s the climate like over there and what kind of utilities/comforts does the land have?
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kastein posted:That costs a lot more than the roofing paint does and I believe even requires a permit out here. I can paint and bolt whatever I want on my drat car any time though. It just happens to also be a house. Can you bolt a carport to your RV?
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iv46vi posted:I understand that “kastein” mode is one notch past 11 on the hardcore dial and you drove across states with mad max fury road soundtrack tape blasting on the stereo, but is the plan here to take an abandoned RV and spend a winter on undeveloped plot of land? It's in his other thread, it's a plot of land in the Pacific northwest with a well that he had dug and other utilities I believe setup.
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PNW winters are extremely mild. After however many New England winters Ken has been through I wouldn't be surprised if he gets through this winter just wearing jorts and t-shirts.
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