SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE...

[dtcerrato]

1971 - Traveling East coast to West coast. OTR brake down performing real time repairs. Transaxle reduction gear failure.
Note the open Craftsman tool chest on the ground along the PS van.
That's me laying in the grass looking over our situation from a distance...
1966 VW Kombi conversion...pulling mini tandem supply trailer. GVW 7,200lbs.

2016 - Major break down in Alaska - disintegrated blower. Notice the same Craftsman tool chest in the PS bottom compartment just to the left of the firewood. Repair time 11 days.
1953 PD-4104-129 conversion pulling 2005 GMC Sierra Quadrasteer. GVW 33,081lbs.

45 years later bigger & older bus BUT...:
SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE! Lol

[Tedsoldbus]

 I love my bus, but it is 40 years old. Mostly runs great, love to drive it, but realizing the truck stop 12 miles ahead is not going to have....almost anything I need. My father in law drove a 4106 for 30 years. My wife went once a month with her dad, usually to see a steam train, most of her young life. They did a lot of meets where his two buddies that also lived near him, went as well. They were bus mechanics. Multiple stories about how he broke down, and what do you know, Malamut would pull in behind me and have an extra bearing in his belly bay! Well sports fans, most of these "events", Malamut was coming home from the same meet. Didn't just wander by in western Pennsylvania!!! When her dad drove the 4106 to see us in Alaska in 1990, guess who he talked into coming behind him in his bus. Yep. And when a rock punched dad's radiator half way there, big adventure about how they had one shipped up from the lower 48, and guess who had it changed out in a jiffy. Malamut
I realize I don't have a Malamut, and I am no mechanic, but I still love driving it. There is just nothing like. I maintain it best I can, and dammit I am still going. If I have to get towed it will suck, but we have no kids and like my wife says. How much money do we need when we are dead. Tow truck drivers need to eat too!
Life is not a rehearsal. I'm still going.

[dtcerrato]