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I think ~2A was my parasitic draw the last time I checked. What engine do you have? I have the 2.0T with eTorque, and an electrical gremlin moved in a few months after I got the jeep. The voltage out the 12V plug varies from 13+ to 14.7 when the jeep is running. Having the ESS engage a few...

Glad to be of service. I originally thought that I was going to have lots of use for the Aux switches; so far this has not been the case. I do have a Warn winch solenoid in a box that had travelled the country more than twice now that I'll put on a switch someday. Right now it has a big red...

The next morning didn't start out the best, if I remember correctly. My dumb frozen fingers kept dropping stuff, and when you're camping, things you drop tend to fall into places like mud or latrines. Even if you are over a table or ground sheet, your item will find a way to avoid safety and...

Over 9,000 miles across the country! Compared to you, my wandering looks like a beeline. Did you accidentally replace your GPS with an oscilloscope? Sounds and looks like you had like a great trip, and got to visit a great many places. Where'd you find that neat rock? I'm agreeing with you...

So I'm puttering around, ostensibly organizing the pantry but maybe really just snacking and waiting for the 'filter-out pile' Metahie to make up its mind and either cook or congeal, and I figured I'd better make up for a few lost days before I forget what happened. I left the Grand Canyon...

A short addendum to the "Maybe don't invite LittleDog into your house" consideration. Here he is now this morning: He's doing his best Hannibal Lecter impression because though he's pretty good with not licking if you tell him, it only sticks for five minutes if you leave the room, and this...

@zouch National Forests, not Parks, gotcha. Feeling a bit dumb now, because I know that, and even drove through a few, but it didn't occur to me at the time. Again, not something usually on my radar; not many National Forests around NJ. I've never heard it called karma poop before, but I'm...

I had been thinking that too, but no overnights with a dog so far as Ive seen. I think really big ones like Yellowstone have specific campgrounds that allow them. I know, I was surprised too. You can usually take them in and walk about a bit, but there are often limited areas for even that...

Alright, I felt bad for the abbreviated post yesterday. This is for my own good as well, since my sense of time is all screwy now and I easily lose track of what happens on what day. Here's the one photo of the snowy canyon that I managed to get: I took Arizona Highway 64, Desert View Drive...

The stuff I had when I left San Jose, or the apparently ten boxes worth of junk I brought from New Jersey? I actually finally sorta sorted and gave away that final jumbletub that's been taking up room inside the jeep, just last night: Unfortunately, this was accomplished by using two smaller...

Short post this time, to hide my disappointment in not being able to visit Bearizona yesterday, due to too much junk hanging off and on the jeep. (Coming from New Jersey, I have extensive knowledge of curious-animal vehicular damage from the Six Flags: Great Adventure safari park) So my best...

@keeperman13 Hey, thank you for the compliments, it actually means a lot. I wish you had been any one of my english teachers growing up. With regards to the "entire train of thought" bit, the auto-throttling action of slowly typing this out on a phone forces me to think before I peck, which...

Worse yet, I realised just today that I left behind all of the cans and jars, and tinned fish and meats that I'd slowly accumulated over there! My beef goulash! My ajvar and country pâté! My weird Mexican tripe stew that I never got to try! My expensive tuna belly in a can that I brought...

Hey, I resemble that remark! But it doesn't count as hoarding if I actually use the junk, right? Now cameras on the other hand, those I might be hoarding at this point. @jack bauer Worse. I walked LittleDog on a 6 1/2 foot leash within a state park, and thought the 400Wh lithium battery in...

@Reinen I am definitely East Coasty, maybe even pretend city-slickerish, but I also usually try to explain acronyms for our dear readers, because I hate reading them in articles and having to search all the way back up to the top for what they mean. I should really () them. Regarding KOAs...

@Reinen Actually, I just woke up in BLM, Bureau of Land Management, land. No coyotes. Coming in last night: I thought that I went to the end of the campers but around 6pm a trio of side-by-sides decided that I didn't add enough spice dust to my dinner and tore down the path: But besides a...

Howdy again all. I've been a member here for a while, but stopped checking in after Covid messed everthing up. Stupid Covid. Always liked the old jeeps, and finally got one in late 2019, with plans to travel across the country. That did not happen. I made two aborted attempts, each getting...

What antenna? A whip, or a semi-rigid antenna like a Firestik? You could just lay it across the speaker bar and tie it down on both ends. Or stuff it in from the back, over the roll bar. Again, put some twisties to prevent rattling. Or you could buy some conduit tubing and run it up the bar...

But the windshield is. Glass laminate, at least. And the panel is made of fragile, crunchy silicon bits, but they are mostly protected by the sturdy curvature of the hood. The bulge on the edge of the Cascadia solar panel where the power cable comes out will press against the middle of the...

Connected during low-speed turning on pavement, everything will be the same as pre-installation. During high speed (dangerous) turns on pavement, definitely, technically, roll and traction will have gain/loss depending on your choice of the groove above or below the length of your existing...