Local Apparent Friday

Assuming that you replaced all the fluid and know how to properly bleed brakes, yes...what you're describing would generally indicate a faulty master cyl. and/or booster.

Recovery?!? I'm still in denial. ?

We call those stacks Charley Noble on boats, it'll do good by ya'. As for the camplux, I have one of those we've been using in conjunction with a stock tank and a circulator pump to make a hillbilly hot tub...works good. You should be quite pleased with it.

@laharview Still out there traveling?

Hindsight is 20/10, but hopefully that '22 frontier is treating you well out there somewhere.

Saw something similar for about $20 that I wanted at Maine Military that was Swedish surplus, but I figured 250L was going to be hard to manage. ?

Dometic GO I like the foldable Reliance jerry cans. They stuff in to places real nicely and they're cheap. 5 gals is a little over 40 pounds though.

I try not to build them, just sail. First boat I ever lived on was a ketch, since then I've sailed mostly traditionally rigged and sometimes wooden vessels from the San Blas Islands in Panama to Quebec city on the St Lawrence. I repair them if I have to, glass/wood/steel, but building is next level, at least on the size of boats that I'm used to. It takes large, well funded foundations to get these things afloat. Oregon sounds fun and cedar smells amazing. PNW will be a sharp change of scenery for you, it'll be neat to follow along. -laf

Went right over my head...googled it but found some place in Massachusetts. Road a bicycle up to E Machias one time from Ellsworth, it was 150 mile round trip. Pretty area. Some New Yorker probably bought your house...it's crazy to see how much has changed (hands) since we left. Maine has a very serious population problem, and it looks like most everyone that could took advantage of NY/CT/MA money to bail out and pack up while they could. Your heritage sounds a heck of a lot like mine, albeit we set up shop about that time in the Mid-Atlantic region instead of Boston and got into politics as well.

That's an amazing pic. The way you describe your panel and the way it looked, it caught my eye as being very similar to the way that we organize and install nav stations aboard vessels. Can you post a link to that 4 station temp monitor? That sounds like a handy piece of kit. Hope everything goes well with the family, fair winds. - laf

Probably a little better on gas too. What pressure do you run?

For anybody else reading this down the line, the lights have individual switches on them with three positions; Off, Door, or On. If your lights are not illuminating when you open the doors, check first that they are set to "door," then check the bulbs and fuse if they still don't work.

This is the current state of affairs for the build, after of course unloading all the stuff from the last month and demunging.

Very close with the spool and bobbin guess! We use Atlas Obscura a lot for finding neat things along our path of travel and, as a lover of King's literary work, I couldn't miss this opportunity. Per the link, Bartlettyarns from Graveyard Shift; Harmony, Maine - laf

Perhaps the humidity is to blame. That's the first thing that comes to mind. I'm also wondering if our bike cover on our hitch rack creates a bit of drag. For the pump problem, I normally let it auto shutoff and then keep going until squeezing almost immediately results in it shutting back off. I figure that's about as close as I can get to doing it the same way every time, and any difference would be negligible in the grand scheme. All in all, loving this thing. Safe travels!

Oh yah...got the windows tinted too. 5% on the rears and as1 up, 20% on the front doors, and Air80 on the balance of the windshield.

I never take as many photos as I think that I do. Anyway, a little over 3000 miles over a month and we're back at home base. I am officially attributing the electrical gremlin referenced in the first post to an improperly seated transmission connector. I took that apart, cleaned it and put it back together before we left, and I have not had an issue since. We ran a bunch of sailing programs in Maine. We swam in an 1800's era swimming hole in the White Mountains of NH. We ate "the best authentic Brazilian burger in Vermont." We met up with some other NVers to buy a window, went to the bridge from A Wonderful Life, and saw a flaming waterfall in New York. We found a lake the size of an ocean in Pennsylvania. Ran a motorcycle race in Pittsburgh, and went to a party on the river in West Virginia. Truck ran great. We can sleep in the back now...albeit it's cobbled together. More coming in the build thread later. Hope you're all out adventuring. Anybody recognize the mill building? -laf

Sweet build! Thanks for taking the time to post up...i'd love to see some more details about all the electrical goodies that are on that panel you built. Also, you can add bags or sonicsprings to the rear to help with the weight a bit. What are your stomping grounds? You on instagram or other platforms as well? - laf

We have one in our '14, but as we are on 285's, it isn't accurate. I used a GPS to track distance and figure out that it's recording roughly .90075% of the actual covered mileage, so when applying that mathematically to our odometer over the course of our trip, we averaged about 13.631mpg, which includes a lot of flat land driving, as well as a trip through the white mountains and across VT to Albany, then down the lake to Erie and round to Pittsburgh before heading for the WV mountains and across back to the coast. Good to see you all again! - laf

Mechanically it's been one nightmare after the next and the rust is next level.

Beautiful pics! Hope you're having fun out there. We use freecampsites.net to find chill spots as well. Fair winds, -laf

We own a subaru...i'll set to work getting rid of it when we get home and I'll never own another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKrnbYZhZH0

So like they said, you have to trick the SRS system into thinking the seats are there, this is done with a resistor. The delete dongles that aztec mentioned are just resistors done up in a quick harness for people that don't know how to work with electrical components. As to resetting the light once you either put your seats back in or add the resistor, it's a very straightforward process, there is a youtube video that involves cycling your key a couple times and whatnot. My internet isn't running well enough rn to pull up the video, but just search "Nissan Airbag Light Reset" and you should find it. I'll double back and post it later when I have better net if you haven't found. As to resistor values, IIRC it's about 1k ohms, but you'll want to do some research and/or measure your resistance to confirm.