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    Why even use Solar Panels?

    If you only spend one night sitting, and then driving the next, that might work. But ideling the motor is hard on engines, especially gasoline engines; to idle, warm up or charge a battery. The engine piston isn't a tight fit in the motor. They have a few metal rings around it to fill in the...
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    how hard to work on van engine, etc?

    You will be lucky if all you need to do is pull off th dog house to fix something. Water pump, power steering pump, alternator, AC line.. even the washer fluid pump needs a long skinny arm. It's the price to pay for having a short hood. Might as well replace something else going bad while you...
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    Benefits of Mud Tires?

    I just picked up a simmilar tire: the ST Maxx. Different tread pattern. They are absolute marshmellows when driving on the highway. You can feel the sway in the wind and in when cornering. Very "squirley". Although, they do better in the mud and do quite well in the sand, over AT tires. I...
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    Hanging out in Lake Havasu

    I spent last winter just north of there near I-40. Lots on mice, pack rats, kangaroo rats crawling all over and chewing on stuff in my van. Chewing on wiring and whatever it is they thought was edible.  Nothing like waking up to a mouse jumping across you face or to the sound of nibbling...
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