by campskunk | Jan 29, 2019 | Campskunk, DIY & Gadgets, How Tos
I had an eventful day solving a problem I always dreaded – a water leak in my Class B Sprinter campervan. The water pump was coming on briefly every 15-20 seconds, no matter how much I tried to get all the air out of my system. It could have been just a bit of...
by campskunk | Jan 25, 2019 | Campskunk, DIY & Gadgets
OK, I admit it. I am just too rough on these plastic faucets that come with the SMEV/Dometic sinks in some Sprinter galleys. I've just broken my third one in four and a half years of fulltiming in my 2014 CS Adventurous. The last plastic one I put in came courtesy of...
by campskunk | Jan 6, 2019 | Campskunk, DIY & Gadgets
This is an easy repair that I did as part of my over-the-winter maintenance work while I'm driveway camping in Florida. I had ordered the motor last July so it was sitting here waiting for me when I arrived. I had been having problems with the original fan motor since...
by campskunk | Dec 8, 2018 | Campskunk, People & Places
We have been back in Florida for a few weeks now, driveway camping at my sister Anne's as usual. My father is two blocks away in a suite in my other sister's house, my other other sister is a couple of miles away, my other other other sister (I have too many sisters)...
by campskunk | Oct 22, 2018 | Campskunk, People & Places
After leaving the Roadtrek factory last week, we headed east down the St Lawrence, crossed southern Quebec, and entered Maine through a one-man border crossing far up in the hills on Highway 27. We came down the valleys through beautiful fall foliage, heading for the...
by campskunk | Oct 12, 2018 | Campskunk
Well, I succumbed to Jim Hammill's charms again, and I've been in Kitchener for the past couple of weeks. I was getting a check engine light that indicated a bad pressure sensor on the DEF pump, so I called up the factory to see if we could pull the fresh water tank...
by campskunk | Sep 21, 2018 | Campskunk, People & Places
We have been killing a few days in the Ottawa area, waiting for a service appointment with the local Mercedes dealership, and have been following the Ottawa River downstream and southeast for the last few days as we approached the city. The Ottawa is a large river...
by campskunk | Sep 3, 2018 | Campskunk
We just finished a week and a half up in the Bighorn Mountains at 9,000 feet, part of our plan to work our way east in preparation for our trek across the top of the country from the Rockies to the Maritimes to come down the east coast this fall. We had been up on...