What is slower than the slow boat to China? The slow truck from Louisiana carrying my transmission.  When the mechanic checked on its status...

I grew up in a time when the slang for transmission was tranny or trans . Using those terms now could cause confusion or offense. So, when ...

A rear view camera doesn’t do much good if I ignore it.

You know what? I’m going to stop making any kind of plans beyond what I’ll have for dinner. The latest monkey wrench is a state of emergency...

The new engine is running fine. And between the new engine, the new water pump, and the new radiator, the running temperature stays in the n...

Today I loaded my stuff in the van, took two loads of trash to the transfer station, cleaned the bathroom and kitchen, vacuumed, dusted, too...

I gave Lou’s truck and mini camper to a woman in El Paso. Her son and fiancee picked it up for her since she was feeling ill today. You neve...

Well, the Rolling Steel Tent’s engine got replaced and all that, but on the way home to the rancho the check engine light came on. I made a ...

GM vehicles have a feature called Retained Accessory Power (RAP) that allows certain electrical accessories, such as the radio, to stay on f...

A few years ago I started having occasional brief episodes of vertigo. They usually happened when I was in bed. I’d turn my head from one si...

I’ve been on hold with customer support for too long, so maybe one of my solar-savvy readers can tell me why my two 200W panels are putting ...

Kitchen cabinets were intended to live sedentary lives, not to ride around in the back of a van. So drawers and doors have a tendency to ope...

 Cargo vans don’t have nice moldings covering all the wiring like passenger vans do. So the back corners of the Rolling Steel Tent are a bit...

The original cabinet I built from scratch ten years ago functioned just fine, but there were some funky bits and some obvious flaws. I tried...