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These are my two lovely foster dogs.

Years ago there was a company that made a Catalina/PBY RV. Although outside of a few parts of the south Pacific and Caribbean there aren't many safe places to park one. The helicopter would work a lot better for lake hopping

Have to agree with @mpruet, when it gets down below freezing you can't beat a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup.

Some of the highly-stable recreational kayaks can't be righted when you're in them, i.e. they're equally stable inverted. It can also be a little hard to get the water out of them when righting from outside because they're enclosed on top. But it's almost impossible to roll them on level water...

I recall them being pretty slow in the water. And the other options are either not collapsible, or pricey (Folbot).

For what it's worth, you can get rid of ozone in the air with an activated carbon filter. They remove ~60% of the ozone with each pass. I can't remember the details, but I seem to recall that only ionizers with a specific polarity (either positive or negative ions) make ozone.

Well I finally pulled the return line and ran it into a clear fuel can, and a few seconds after starting the engine there was froth coming out. So my best guess is that the tank is gradually filling with bubbles and that's why it takes 5 miles or so for the problem to show up in the fuel line...

Somehow I missed the new replies... Yeah, those are good ideas, I'll check.

@bullfrog ! That makes the most sense, thanks. I was just confused that it takes 5 miles before the bubbles show up, and goes from clear fuel to froth in a mile or two. But maybe the air is getting cycled back into the tank through the return line... (The engine on this truck is 30 years old...

@gsnz , did you use Blender to draw your additions? If so, did it work OK for that?

The fuel tank and lines on my truck are new in the last 2,500 miles, but in the last 200 it began to stall occasionally with air in the lines. So I spliced in a section of transparent hose where the line connects to the engine to see what's going on, and the bubbles start after about 5 miles of...

Chevrolet P30 stepvans from the '80s or early '90s had much less plastic trim. Even the dashboard face is metal. But they still have rubber door and window gaskets, a plastic duct for the heater (removable), various plastic knobs (replaceable), and some plastic parts inside the steering column...

Only if coming from the Canadian side 😆 The road on the US side has a steep grade and isn't exactly wide, but I don't remember it being especially curvy. But after you cross the summit and start to go back down, you'll run into tight switchbacks, low guardrails and lots of RVs driven by people...

Welcome to the forum :D Used to race USCF road, love Glacier and pretty much all the parks in the Northwest. What kind of pooch do you have?

I don't think that anyone here unfairly singled out lithium batteries. In fact, if you search through the forum, you'll find people debating the safety of just about every product you could imagine putting in or near an RV. For example, this is from just two days ago. And this was a month ago...

I'd never seen those, thanks :D I've toyed with doing the conversion, but it seemed like PlethoraOfGuns wanted to stick with a 4BT, and I didn't want to hijack his thread. (He might actually be able to use a stock pan, but the rear sump version will come very close to the back of the...

I think that a stock 6BT would have plenty of power. My stock 4BT will pull my 15' stepvan up modest grades at 55mph with an 1,800 lb. load in the back. And that's despite it currently being geared too low and hitting the engine's RPM governor (which cuts fuel flow) at around that speed.

Honestly, I'd say there's not enough public awareness of how dangerous metal fires are. I had to train to put them out when I worked in an industrial R&D lab, and while we fortunately never had an accident, one of our customers (IBM) lost a big cinder block wall when somebody knocked a propane...

I bought 25 KWh of barely-used nickel metal hydride medical cells for less than the cost of lead acid (one house bank and one spare set). They're not as light as lithium iron-phosohate, but they're safe and indestructable. And they held up under 80% cyclic loads better than the brand new...

For what it's worth, this is what happened to the right mount on mine: I only noticed because I happened to be working in that area when the sun was shining down through the open hood and there was daylight between the engine-side bracket and the mount. It probably shifted when I was on the...