We spent the March long weekend camping on Salt Spring Island, a 30 min ferry ride from here on Vancouver Island.
Some notes/observations:
1. Electrical gremlins (aka POs) After running the engine after a c-h-i-l-l-y evening to check how the battery would perform, (no problem there) I discovered the fridge and all shore power was NLA. Huh?
I don't know what possessed me last minute to throw the multimeter in the toolkit, but a couple half-split checks and I discovered the culprit.
Same ol' story, some previous owner had cut & spliced (poorly) the wires just behind the shore plug connection. Had they removed the cabinet, they would have discovered the plug and disconnected it but NOOOO, cut, snip, oops...re-splice. Minutes and several feet of electrical tape later, back in business.
2. Performance ramblings
a. Mileage is still sucky. After re-checking dwell, plugs, & adjusting timing w/ strobe between 28-30, I suspect some jetting is required. I haven't pushed the envelope past 30 BTDC, so maybe that's in order.
b. VDO CHT issues. Engine floating around 400 mark on highway speeds of 50 mph +. Cooling flaps responding A-OK to thermostat, engine doesn't feel/smell hot, no vac leaks detected.
c. Engine seems 'lacking' power, back to jetting?
3. Camp Setup/Arrangement This tent is big, heavy, smells funny, and the most practical and best thing I bought for camping!
The extra dry real estate this thing affords when the weather turns south is bliss. I was skeptical about it at first but it will now go on every camping trip w/ us.
Our daughter couldn't have been more snug in her "fort" behind the rear seat. We didn't have to fold the seat down once.
Time to figure out where we're going to next in April!
I love this tent!
One happy camper
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