Rob's 1977 Fatty Camper

[MrBreeze]

Came across this picture today. My first camper, a 1971 (with a 1974 nose). This was in 1989. The little boy in the front is my youngest brother,
now married with 2 kids. Wish I could find pictures of it restored, about a year or so later.

[EDNCAROL]

That house looks kind of familiar. LOL! For those of you who don't know Rob and I grew up two blocks away from each other. At one time he lived 4 houses away. We never knew each other. Small world.

[MrBreeze]

The yellow 70's plates from this bus are the ones on my camper now

[Glenn]

Happy birthday Rob.

[Tom]

Hope you're having a great birthday.

[BusBq Bill]

happy birthday rob

[BusBq Bill]

happy birthday rob

[MrBreeze]

Thanks!

[Raj]

Happy belated

[MrBreeze]

Time to upgrade my battery. Was thinking Optima, any recommendations?

[BusBq Bill]

Any brand of agm is good choice for cars that sit for periods of time, doesnt have to be optima, there are less costly options, for the same technology, I just put an agm bosch battery its made by exide in jess subaru, seems good so far, noticibly better cranking, for a car with an anemic starter

[MrBreeze]

Ugh.

I knew it was going to be halfway decent today, so I had planned to take the camper to work. When I got outside, I saw frost on the windshield and wimped out. I gotta replace that damn battery but have no motivation to deal with it lately.

Oh well, maybe next weekend.

I hate the winter.

[EDNCAROL]

Rob you want to go half on a place in Arizona?

[MrBreeze]

https://youtu.be/c1cZv3BtecE

Put the android radio in today, working well. I want to run a cable from the video/audio out to the back of the bus so I can have a monitor in the back for movies when "camping"

Also going to hook a modified dash cam in front so I can webcast to Facebook live for parades and such. Need warmer temps to get more motivated!

[MrBreeze]

Another "lucky it happened close to home". Dang clutch cable went. I think it stretched, it barely worked pushed all the way down. Gonna rain this weekend so I'll deal with it during the week.

[BusBq Bill]

your lucky... mine has broken in the arizona desert and it broke late at night in front of the white house, as a few other places closer to home, i drove mine from robert moses to malverne once with no clutch. the strands break one by one till there all gone.

[MrBreeze]

I've had it happen a few times over the years in various busses. Not hard to get it home, just be gentle and enjoy the bouncing leaving stoplights

The stress last night was that I was feeling really sick and was kinda in a hurry to get home LOL

Another month or so and I'll have a garage to work in!

[MrBreeze]

I may have found my clutch problem. Hope it doesn't rain Sunday.

[BusBq Bill]

Oh yeah.. i know the feeling clutch pedal gets lower on every press then plink it snaps and pedal drops to the floor and sits there..

[EDNCAROL]

2 Cable clamps and a roll of duct tape and your good to roll.

[AoT]

The warning light didn't come on?

[Tom]

Can't you duct tape that ?

[MrBreeze]

I was just gonna take it out and recoil it

[EDNCAROL]

I blame the lack of rust on the cable for the failure.

[MrBreeze]

Always the last bolt. New cable is in but the top bolt on the bowden tube bracket is stripped. Ordered a step down stud and I'll be back under the bus on Saturday. Nice to be getting my hands dirty again, been a long time.