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I went to pick up a 1979 Vanguard camper that I'm going to be using...it's an 11' unit with a small bathroom, stove, furnace, hot water etc....and in decent shape for it's age. But since I didnt have any camper bars on my truck I had to load it on my trailer. Then once home I had to figure...

But why?:unsure:

Another Update....Finally got the cash deal sorted out, spoke with multiple people within the National Bank organization about how to proceed, got the final confirmation from a manager at a bank in his local area that is fine with me flying in and then picking up the cash.👍 Deposit on the car...

Almost looks like someone took an old fiberglass drag boat and modified it over a chassis.

Man that parts A100 is in better shape then the boogie van... 😄

Nothing changed for the box mount...same plate they'd been using for decades. This is the OEM plate that came off the 93 parts truck, so not a bad run. ;)

That is pretty sweet...but I'd probably want to go back to the large round headlights.

No just the stock 235/85/16 Load range E tires. But just a week after I got it back out on the road I was backing into a parking spot and had the wheels cranked and heard a big metallic pop/clang....pretty sure my steering box adapter plate cracked. I have several spare but it just means I...

Not sure if you clicked on the "1/112" in the top right corner...that is the full playlist, and there are a ton of cool original sounding bands that are almost all new to me. Some are Meh...some I'm digging hard but I have not skipped past a single one so far. ;)

Came across a playlist of Doom/Stoner/Sludge metal by a user on Youtube...been digging it hard the last few weeks!

I haven't contacted him yet since my initial findings with this information he may be amenable to another form of payment....he seems like a pretty decent guy and has said he would "prefer" cash but in our conversations I did not get the sense that this was set in stone. Resto...I've tried that...

So been trying to sort out the cash payment and things are not going as I had hoped. I deal with a large national bank and figured I could give them a couple weeks notice and just set up the cash withdrawal at one of their local banks in his area of the country, then fly in and go to the bank...

Gonna be hard to keep those front wheels on the ground now.... 😄

Yeah I think it has to do with the heavy cummins drive train and the 4wd as well that kills the coupler. You can see the wear it's suffered from the metal shims I have to put in as well. Hopefully one of the parts trucks has a better one I can steal. ;)

I also removed the drip rail sealant along the front edge...AGAIN! This is the third or fourth time I've re-done this because it never stays sealed and allows water to get in under it and make the rust that is present a little bit worse...:( Eventually I'm going to have to pull the roof skin...

Then I decided that the front RH fender needed some paint since it had been slowly getting worse every winter....so sanded it down quickly and got ready for paint. Decided to try the roll on tremclad/rustoleum I'd come across on-line since I didn't really care to much how the paint turned out...

Now that suspension was done it was steering box time, the output shaft seals had been leaking for over 4 years so definitely time to get this done, and since the steering coupler would be out as well I put another rebuild kit in it. Kit I got for the output seals... Fairly straight...

I've needed new over load pads for a lot of years, missing a couple and the others were cracked or missing half.... Was looking around on-line for alternatives since I could seem to find OEM type units, and found a few I thought would work but they were in the 60-80 dollar range...way more...

That is a great idea with the sticky sanding sheets.... (y)

More to come...