Sounds ideal bruce.

Now… temps on steep slow climbs. And oil pressure.

Mind you, was coolish so I’ll take that into consideration :-)

Ab

> On Sep 19, 2021, at 6:28 PM, Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Trails were a mixture of broken rock and rock face - the latter being more slippery.  The weather was  scattered sun, rain and cloud yesterday so pretty ideal conditions - I loved that there was no dust.  
> 
> I was the only van not equipped with all terrain tires and I found it the most slippery heading uphill and spinning on the rock face - no issues coming down hill though and with the low gear could really stay off the brakes.
> 
> The defogger or vent control was on 1/2 way between lower and upper level and the windows were also open as we were getting pretty toasty with the heat at times.
> 
> BT
> 
>> On Sunday, September 19, 2021, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Good news!
>> 
>> Bet you had the de frogger on a lot though. The trails slick or mostly broken rock?
>> 
>>>> On Sep 19, 2021, at 5:57 PM, Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> Sorry I have been off grid and went to DeLa Syncro over this past weekend up Whistler way.  Got a new valve installed - was able to have IB Motors swap a new one in for me - very nice of them.   It wasn’t the German control valve sold by GW - so eventually I will replace what is there.
>>> 
>>> The van ran very well on the highway and I was also impressed with the trail riding and how all the vans performed on some pretty narrow, steep and rocky trails.
>>> 
>>> And my old Dometic kept things nice and cold.  Saw some very cool vans.
>>> 
>>> Lots of fun.
>>> 
>>> BT
>>> 
>>>> On Friday, September 17, 2021, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>> Hey Bruce!
>>>> 
>>>> All ok?.
>>>> 
>>>> How you like the rain? Even in rain shadowed spot I live in it’s pretty week full on west coast fall.
>>>> 
>>>> Must be more damp over in Whistler :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Hole you nippled the heater, you’ll need all the heat.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> 
>>>> Alistair 
>>>> 
>>>> > On Sep 15, 2021, at 6:12 PM, Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > 
>>>> > I am heading out Friday on a short trip to head out into the back
>>>> > country with a few other van owners and I noticed a small stain under the
>>>> > front clam shell this afternoon.
>>>> > 
>>>> > It looks like it is dripping from the heater control valve.  I shut the
>>>> > valve and that has stopped the drips for now.  I have yet to run the van to
>>>> > see if that continues to keep things at bay.
>>>> > 
>>>> > So my question is - but shutting the valve will that hopefully me from
>>>> > losing coolant  for the short term until it is replaced?  And will there be
>>>> > any ramifications for turning off the valve - other than I will likely
>>>> > not be getting much heat in the front of the cab?
>>>> > 
>>>> > Bruce
>>>>