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FYI... baton will be getting passed on to @Mesa Woman and @mesa man in less than two weeks... April 26/27. We are meeting up in the Escudilla Wilderness for a brief camp, some hiking, and of course a handoff of the briefcase/baton. Anyone else interested in getting in on the baton passing, post...

Tim Tam SLAM! If you don't know... I'm sorry.

You in the Phoenix area by chance @beanz2? I've got the SST...

Thinking through this a bit... I'm unsure of how you can get 2 to 3 inches of play from the gearbox. Having rebuilt the one on my 40 (mechanically identical to our Troopy's) there's just no way you'd have that much play from the steering gearbox. The amount of wear to translate to that much play...

There's 5 bananas on the scale right? I'd call this a 2 banana job on that scale. You're gonna need to unbolt/rebolt stuff. You'll need pullers for the TRE and the Pitman Arm connections (between my brother-in-law and I we have everything, but O'Reilly has them for rental). It's a really messy...

Then I caught a bad case of "While I'm in here..." The power steering pump was leaking a bit all over the place... and I figured it'd get worse with the gearbox sealed up. Parts for a re-sealing: The pump had actually been sealed up at leak points with some sort of silicone/rtv. The...

Finally got around to replacing the power steering gearbox. Redhead found two problems with the core steering box I sent them. 1. The output shaft had a lot of scoring on it at the old oil seal location. They called me and explained that given the lack of OEM replacements for that specific...

Thinking through this some more... my issues with the old box were purely leak-related. Power steering worked just fine and upon removal of the old box there was no play in the input or output shafts. But it was to the point where if I drove regularly I was going through a quart of ATF every two...

If you’re on the fence about a Troopy, this is an outrageous deal. African countries are starting to gobble up Troopies on the used markets overseas… LHD in particular. At this price and already imported with the essential base-lining done for you… smokin’ deal.

Am I wrong in thinking it now just becomes a matter of snagging the crank pulley with 3 slots and using the Vintage Air setup?

Curiously no number on the block… or it’s been long obscured…

I'm wrong... it's got a crankshaft nut. Clearly not an F135.

That's correct.

Those two connectors coming out of the evaporator box are related to the AC (obviously I guess). The left one is a temp sensor and the right one is the AC pressure switch. Both of those plugged into plugs in my harness/loom. They fed through the harness into the AC "amplifier" which is the...