Every year it’s the same. People want to know where The Turtle V has been, and where it’s going to go, but it can’t look like it’s been anywhere. Getting the mud and road grime accumulated over thousands of miles off is always a challenge. Hellwig Products is sponsoring The Turtle V this year. www.hellwigproducts.com […]
Monika has been known to do some crazy things on her birthday; climbing Half Dome in Yosemite, backpacking in the Sierras, climbing up Mount Tallac above Lake Tahoe. Of course, Gary gets to tag along. Who could miss the excitement? This year, it was jumping out of a perfectly good airplane at 18,000 feet and […]
Gates Rubber (www.gates.com) recently shot a commercial video training tape showing the Gates Solution Kit for 7.3 Power Strokes that eliminates the need to remove the top radiator hose to change the serpentine belt. Part of the video will include an interview with us and clips of our Trans-Siberian Expedition. The finished video will be […]
Gates Rubber Company (www.gates.com) , suppliers of all our cooling and heater hoses, serpentine belts, belt tensioners, and HD water pumps, recently paid a visit to Ken Imler Diesel Performance (www.imlerdiesel.com) where The Turtle IV is on display, and where current preparation on the Turtle V is underway. A training video was shot showing the Gates […]
Starting a 7.3 Power Stroke engine requires turning the engine at a speed high enough and long enough to raise the oil pressure to 450 psi to open the fuel injectors. Especially in cold weather, the factory starter really had to work. The MPA (Motorcar Parts of America) Xtreme HD starter (www.Xtreme-HD.com) is a direct […]
After replacing our Seaward marine hot water heater with a FlatPlate (www.FlatPlate.com) double wall brazed plate heat exchanger that takes heated coolant from our Espar D5 Hydronic coolant heater (www.espar.com), we saw an unexpected problem. It works too well. Even after running the D5 Hydronic for 3 or 4 minutes, the water out of the […]
Any type of refrigerator produces heat as it cools, including the Norcold compressor unit in the Tortuga Expedition Camper. The faster that heat can be removed, the more efficient the cooling system is, and the less energy it will use. We upgraded the Nicro vent fan to a larger model with a three-way switch: solar, […]
