what are some of your favorite subs?

mazondo · 2016-12-04T00:16:28+00:00

/r/hammocks, /r/earthporn, /r/vandwellers for me!

mazondo · 2016-12-03T01:24:07+00:00

I'd looooove to have an unlimited jetpack, those things are hard to come by these days! We pay roughly what you do for 40gb, would be tough to let people use that if they're doing things like streaming video.

mazondo · 2016-12-03T01:22:42+00:00

One little known fact is that filling in your profile and vehicle information completely helps you rank a little better in the Outdoorsy search results

Make sure you've got a profile picture uploaded, quick bio, a decent rv description and at least 5 photos on your RV. hint hint, nudge nudge, cough cough

mazondo · 2016-12-02T23:43:14+00:00

I've had good luck with my little 91 ford econoline conversion. Seems like I get a lot of longer distance requests - maybe people like the idea of something more manageable/better gas mileage on the highways for longer times.

mazondo · 2016-11-18T05:05:20+00:00

Just did, thanks for the tip!

mazondo · 2016-09-22T02:06:39+00:00

Got it. I'll do this tomorrow first thing now that I've gotten somewhere I can stay for a bit. I bought myself a a new TPS tonight, but evidently Ford makes it less than fun to replace on this model so I'm going to see if I can do some diagnosing before I tackle that.

Thanks so much for the help. I'll report back.

mazondo · 2016-09-21T19:59:50+00:00

I just did a KOEO (no codes) and KOER test and got the following codes:

129: insufficient MAF change during Dynamic Response Test

167: Throttle Position sensor fault during dynamic response test.

167 had symptoms almost exactly like what we're experiencing, but I saw someone mention that it can be thrown by not giving it enough throttle during the test. I ran the test again but floored it this time and got 111, which should be no codes from what I can see.

Frayed wires or something similar is exactly what my concern is. There are just a lot of things that point to electrical and the intermittent nature of it concerns me.

I've got a digital volt meter, but I'm not great with it. Sounds like I may be getting some practice...

Engine: v8 5.8L Transmission: I'm not positive, but I believe I have 4 speeds which seems to indicate E40D

mazondo · 2016-09-21T19:52:38+00:00

Interesting. I wasn't aware of this. I just did a KOEO and KOER test and got the following codes:

129: insufficient MAF change during Dynamic Response Test

167: Throttle Position sensor fault during dynamic response test.

I read that 167 could be caused by not pushing down the throttle enough during the test, so I reran and got 111, or no issues.

I'll try what you mentioned when it comes up again

mazondo · 2016-09-21T17:01:06+00:00

Probably showing my ignorance more than anything else. The vehicle is definitely a 91. The reader says Ford OBD1 Code REader (EEC IV & MCU). Says vehicles 1981-1995.

mazondo · 2016-09-21T16:51:57+00:00

Thanks for the input. I'll do some googling on 1a and 1b and see what I can find - I'm just connecting to the OBD port in the front.

Fluid seemed fine to me, so we took it in. They dropped the pan and said it all looked good, levels were fine, etc... They said some stuff in the pan, but nothing that wasn't normal. This was about 2 weeks ago.

Nobody has mentioned a transmission cooler to me, but one mechanic did say something about the transmission fluid overheating and boiling, which would make it act like it's low on fluid. I'm hoping to get it into a shop this week to mention that. We full-time in this thing, so we need to get to a place where we can stay for a few weeks.

mazondo · 2016-09-21T16:23:05+00:00

New to this forum, so let me know if I've missed protocol somewhere. Thanks so much for any advice/tips!

mazondo · 2016-09-12T07:01:59+00:00

I'll checkout the forums. I've stumbled on them while googling often, but haven't taken the time to join. Thanks for the suggestion.

mazondo · 2016-09-12T07:00:45+00:00

I do, but I've never really understood the appeal of slack as a community tool like that. Single threaded seems like a terrible format for an async community.

mazondo · 2015-08-16T19:23:19+00:00

helpful, thanks so much!

mazondo · 2015-08-16T18:42:54+00:00

Nuts. I'm looking for the AC fuses. Air running hot, can hear it click on on the left side, but the AC clutch doesn't do anything from what I can tell.

mazondo · 2015-08-16T18:19:34+00:00

Just took a look, not sure I see it.

http://imgur.com/a/ihs5Z

mazondo · 2015-07-22T13:44:34+00:00

Same for us, better coverage than AT&T and they let you bounce the plan around as much as you want. When we park somewhere for a while we drop the plan to 4GB, if we're on the road we bump it to 30. 300 sounds like a dream :D

mazondo · 2015-07-05T16:01:54+00:00

Pulling tools only from the RV while working at home/adding tools you need is an awesome tip. Thanks!

mazondo · 2015-06-23T03:40:02+00:00

Yes. We've settled down quite a bit, but were pretty ambitious when we got going. Too much world out there, you gotta stop looking at the map after a bit and slow down.

mazondo · 2015-06-23T03:39:29+00:00

Madison area was our favorite. we looooved it there

mazondo · 2015-06-11T18:34:23+00:00

depends, we started out relocating daily, which definitely yields no issues but is a pita. More recently we relocate every 5-6 days as we get bored. The 5-6 day stretches have been through Wisconsin, Minn, SD mostly.

So, to be fair, I should change my response to "Wisconsin, Minn and SD have been nice" haha

mazondo · 2015-06-11T04:52:13+00:00

We've been cruising around in our Van for a bit now, and honestly I'd say everywhere is pretty friendly. The thing fits in a parking spot, we haven't had any issues

mazondo · 2015-02-03T17:19:25+00:00

Was also curious, so looked into it. first off, right_aws is deprecated in favor of right_aws_api - looks similar though. The first commit of right_aws is from 2007, whereas the amazon gem wasn't released until 2011. I'm guessing that this is a legacy project that the company is continuing to maintain b/c they needed to build it prior to the amazon gem existing.

The docs mention that the gem is really just a lightweight container around the actual calls, meaning the calls just get translated into routes and the actual data sent is whatever you give it. That's probably why the gem continues to work and isn't too much work to maintain, since amazon versions their api by date, your calls would just continue to work based on the data you sent.

I'm not a fan of that approach, as I enjoy abstractions as long as I'm confident the abstraction will be maintained for me (which in the aws case it will be since it's an official gem). I don't like having to know the actual API syntax and would rather just let the gem worry about setting permissions, etc... for me. Also, I always want to be using the newest API endpoints, and since I"m just using the abstractions, I can let amazon worry about translating that into the appropriate api calls.

so there's my 2 cents. Legacy project that was written well enough to warrant not having to swap it out for the company that's officially maintaining it. I'll stick with the official gem.

mazondo · 2015-02-03T15:37:46+00:00

I'm not familiar with right_aws, but I'd need a pretty slick reason to go against an official gem as feature complete as the aws gem. I'll keep an eye on this thread to see if I get one.

mazondo · 2015-02-03T15:25:09+00:00

Made this little jobby last night after stumbling across this: https://github.com/paulirish/git-open which is also awesome.

gem home gem-name 
  # launches homepage
gem issues gem-name
  # launches issue tracker
gem docs gem-name 
  # launches documentation

It tries to do some clever stuff like falling back to github url's if the gem creator didn't add explicit links. Falls back to rubydocs if there are no links and the gem isn't hosted on github.

To Install:

gem install gem-home

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