So what did you do to your Truck Camper today?

I'm trying to get motivated to work on the battery charge wiring today. It's still early, and dark though.

The temperature hit 75 here in Placerville, CA today, so I washed the camper down with Bio-Klean black streak remover, then a coat of ZEP. Plan to head up on Tuesday for an overnight trip to the mountains and try to find some fish on one of my favorite mountain lakes.

I moved it in to the shop, then I pulled out the old batteries.

I started looking inside the cabinets trying to find a way to route some wiring for a heavy duty battery charge line.

garryk6 wrote:
Yesterday we went camper plowing off-roading....

The kids never got to sled due to pulling out all the stuck people, but with skinnies, chains and a plow with the weight of the camper, we went almost wherever we wanted till we hit about 2ft of snow...
Garry in Kodiak, Ak

Snow has become somewhat of an oddity on Kodiak hasn't it??? Funny, my uncle was stationed there during WWII and his pictures have up to 4' of snow. He said it was like that both years he was there.

Finished my DIY rear door awning and have found a solution to facilitate leaving it in place for travel. One of those snap on flexible covers and two Velcro straps and good to go. Wish I was smart enough to post pics but alas not me. Side awning will be installed today, finally, after all the oh boy, oh boy stuff! And also considering installing a rod tube we hadn't used in years I found in a shed to carry fishing rods on outside of the camper. Just where to mount it, hmm. Probably on the jack mounting plates as we take the jacks off for travel and they are the old fashioned type "L" mounts. Then the old girl will be complete. Now if we can find a cheap, really cheap but dependable older model work truck we will be able to just leave the camper on the dually and be able to make ready for travel easier on me. Gearing up for some expected bad weather so hauling in firewood on the short list today too.

Yesterday we went camper plowing off-roading....

The kids never got to sled due to pulling out all the stuck people, but with skinnies, chains and a plow with the weight of the camper, we went almost wherever we wanted till we hit about 2ft of snow...
Garry in Kodiak, Ak

billtex wrote:

deltabravo wrote:
I plugged in the camper to get power inside. The batteries charged some. They stunk up the inside of the camper with battery gas. They are junk.
I ordered new batteries for it today too.

Go for AGM's and be done with it...
One of the best investments we made in our TC's.

That's what I decided to do. I am done with wet cell batteries.
They are a nuisance to maintain in the confines of my AF811. I have to disconnect everything and completely remove the batteries while standing on a ladder to do maintenance on them.

During the 7 camping seasons I had my Desert Fox, I went through 2 sets of golf cart batteries. I've pretty much had it with wet cell batteries.

Re-parked it under the carport last night since I figured it would rain last night, which it did, and this morning, and today.

This has been a weird winter in Washington - warmer than normal temps, and very low snow pack. Some of the ski area had to close up due to the melting snow.

Installed 2 140watt solar panels, and controller.

Ouch Raften. Best of luck.

Same with me. Bent over to pick something up nine days ago and POW went the back.

Been fighting pain and sciatica since. Hopefully I don't need to get another steroid injection, but that may be my only option if it does not improve soon.