Adventioneering

I installed the rear-door ladder on the ‘Rover last night. The
installation was pretty painless. They provided very large screws,
but, I’ve never had good luck using self-tapping screws into sheet metal
aluminum so I wanted to go with rivets instead. I found the biggest
ones I could, which were perfect, and then just riveted it on instead.
Now it’s [...]

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It probably won’t be said that Alex’s body shop is quick, but, let
it not be said that we didn’t get the job done. With a little spurt
of warm weather, we put the final trim piece and turn signal in,
and now everything is back to pre-deer condition.

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I did some tests with the winch today to make sure everything is working properly,
which it is, but I also discovered that the battery that came with the truck
is entirely inadequate. It’s been replaced with a new heavy-duty marine
Optima battery.

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My Masterpull synthetic winch line came today. I went with 3/8″ rather
than 5/16″; mostly for a little more piece of mind and hopefully
for a little easier handling. I got 100 feet, the same length as the
wire line superwinch gave me, and was a little worried about the thicker
size fitting but I got it all on [...]

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Victoria is out in the cold carefully sanding, spraying adhesion
promoter, and finally spraypainting the replacement trim panel for
the front of the truck. In the meantime I replaced the headlight.
The new bulb I put in made me realize how yellow and awful the other
one was, so I had to replace that one too! The trim panel [...]

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I figured it would take two hours, so of course it had to take five, and it didn’t help
that it was 2° outside, but we got it all installed.

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