All The Lumens...

Back in the game

The rig is back together so we took a trip up to Olympia to visit friends and new North Westerners.
We averaged 13mpg in the way up and 14mpg on the way back. The difference? Twenty two gallons of water and 75mph vs. dumping the water and setting cruise for 65mph for the return trip.
Time was about the same, stress was less and we saved almost 1/4 tank of gas.

Save the heater phase 1

Because of some current mobility issues we'll do the heater shield install in phases. Phase 1 involves drilling holes in our new trailer (exciting), installing Rivnuts with our new Rivnut tool (also exciting) and finally mounting the heat shield with fancy stainless hardware from the UK.
More detailed pictures to follow when we remove the heat shield for phase 3.

Save the heater!

When we want to go first look at these trailers they had one completely built out on its way to Hawaii. It also had the hot water heater but had a cool cage to protect it from things sliding around in the trailer. We were pretty certain that we wanted that for hours as well but it was a prototype so we had to make do for couple weeks until they produced the final version.
This is the last you'll see of our naked hot water heater it's about to be protected in style...