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Comment by Kevin F Smith on June 9, 2019 at 5:12pm

So I didn't have ANY bolts that would work for the Jeep's front passenger side caliper...so I took one bolt out of the driver's side and made sure the holes in the steering knuckle still had good threads, and they do.

No choice though...I had to order 4 new caliper pins from Quadratec and have them overnight shipped, General Delivery, to the Yellowstone National Park Post Office...which fortunately is within walking distance from here (although the trail to get there is STEEP!).

So tomorrow or Tuesday the pins should arrive and we'll be good to go again. It just sucks having to stick around the campground waiting, when there is so much else to see here in Yellowstone!

I'm just REALLY glad nothing was damaged and the only things missing were the two caliper pin bolts! I'll be using Lock-Tite when I install the new ones...and that will leave me two spares in case they disappear again.

Kev

Comment by Kevin F Smith on June 7, 2019 at 10:58pm

Hey Jimco.  We don't use the furnace while boondocking, but it does work well.  We use a Buddy Heater attached with a hose to a big propane tank.  VERY efficient.  And YES I miss my K5!  I'm shopping around now to find someone that wants to trade a diesel military K5 for my Cherokee...lol!  If you hear of anything, let me know! 

Comment by Jimco_W001 on June 7, 2019 at 8:37pm

Hi Kevin, hows your M/H propane furnace working? Are you ready to buy another full size Chevy K-5 Blazer? i liked the one you used to own.

Comment by Kevin F Smith on June 7, 2019 at 6:51pm

Well crap.

Its raining and might even snow tonight here at Yellowstone, and get down to 33 degrees tonight, and be in the 40s and rainy all day tomorrow.

But that isn't what I'm saying "well crap" about.

We drove to town this morning to get some more eggs and bacon and sausage...and on the way back, the front passenger side wheel on the Jeep started making some noise...squealing and clacking, just as we made it back to camp.

I parked it and turned the wheel to the left to see what was going on, and the two bolts, BOTH of them, that hold the caliper on the steering knuckle, were gone!  Just freakin' gone! 

So tomorrow or Sunday I'm going to have to take the wheel off and hope I have some bolts that will fit, even as a temporary measure, so we can use the Jeep again to explore!  This is horse hockie!!!

 

Kev

Comment by Kevin F Smith on June 6, 2019 at 8:34pm

Yellowstone Park is beautiful and amazing...and HUGE!

We are camped at the northern tip of the park. We drove over 50 miles today just to get to Old Faithful, which is only about the half way mark to the southern tip of the park. Every corner turned is natural beauty. Buffalo and elk EVERYwhere...and a lot of the time today was spent waiting for the buffalo to leisurely get out of the road...lol!

Old Faithful was amazing...and its not even the biggest geyser in the park. We'll be spending all week exploring this beautiful Alpine paradise. And we still won't even see a fraction of it. I HIGHLY recommend coming to Yellowstone. Simply breathtaking!

Kev

Comment by Kevin F Smith on June 6, 2019 at 10:25am

Woohooooooo!!! We are in Yellowstone, camping for a week at the Mammoth camping area near the North Entrance. WOW is it beautiful. We haven't even left the campground yet to explore, and already we saw a small herd of buffalo go through the campground, and some elk!

LOTS of pictures coming soon! Today we are driving the Jeep down with the pups to see Old Faithful and some of the other geysers. So much to see in this enormous National Park! I don't think we could see in all in a MONTH, nevermind six days. But we are going to see as much as we can!

Our campsite is perfect for solar power. Full sun directly over the panels all day. SWEET!

After my coffee I'm going to offload the Jeep into the "bear box" on our campsite, and then off we go to see Old Faithful.

Kev

Comment by Kevin F Smith on June 5, 2019 at 9:09am

Gotta get a bright and early start this morning, so we are about to hit the road! (7am here in Montana right now). Mammoth camping area filled up by 10:30am yesterday, and although there are available sites, we are an hour or so out. Yikes!

Kev

Comment by Kevin F Smith on June 4, 2019 at 7:08pm

Safe touchdown for the night at the Flying J in Belgrade, MT...about 70 miles from the north entrance to Yellowstone.  Everything is running great and we are off of I-90 East, so our meandering journey to upstate New York is already underway.

There will, of course, be a few stops along the way.  Like Yellowstone!!!

Idaho and Montana are GORGEOUS, by the way!

 

Kev

Comment by Kevin F Smith on June 3, 2019 at 8:27pm

A new adventure begins!



We left Ogden, UT around 11am.  We fueled up and topped off the propane and water and dumped the holding tanks, checked the air pressures and topped off all the tires on the RV to 100psi at the nearby Flying J right after we left camp.

Then we hopped on I-15 North, and meandered our way to a Flying J in Idaho Falls, Idaho...where we are staying for the night.

Tomorrow we'll be driving about 200 miles to Butte, Montana to pick up I-90 East, and then will drive about another 150 miles to a Flying J not far from the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park.  

Hopefully, when we pull into Yellowstone bright and early on Wednesday morning, we'll be able to get a campsite for a week at the Mammoth camping area, which is first come first serve.  (A lot of the campgrounds are still closed at Yellowstone, and the three that let you reserve campsites are booked until the Fall).

Yellowstone here we come!  (Fingers crossed for an RV spot!).



Kev

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