Whc03grady's Posts - VW Camper Family2024-03-28T10:07:00Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03gradyhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1970603520?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=08ex3w41o5u10&xn_auth=noFun Camping Trip (title by E)tag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2012-08-20:4450389:BlogPost:654672012-08-20T17:45:50.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
<p><a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2012/08/fun-camping-trip-title-by-e.html">http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2012/08/fun-camping-trip-title-by-e.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2012/08/fun-camping-trip-title-by-e.html">http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2012/08/fun-camping-trip-title-by-e.html</a></p>Tater Tot Behind the Lenstag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2011-09-06:4450389:BlogPost:471402011-09-06T03:02:56.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">We let E take photos whenever she wants. These are some she took during our camping trip (!) to</span> <a href="http://fwp.mt.gov/parks/visit/lostCreek">Lost Creek State Park</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">on Memorial Day weekend.…</span><br></br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This one'll be entered in the 2012 GoWesty calendar contest, though beat up door+bay window bus=no chance of winning.</span><br/>
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<span style="color: blue;">The other day Melissa and Tater Tot had a surprise waiting for me when I got home from work.</span><br></br>
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<span style="color: blue;">The other day Melissa and Tater Tot had a surprise waiting for me when I got home from work.</span><br/>
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<span style="color: blue;">We actually got some time ago. It didn't quite fit, and we were thinking about how to deal with it when the crankshaft snapped and suddenly it didn't seem very important. </span><br/>
<span style="color: blue;">The crossbars' length varied through the years and this one is (apparently) incorrect for a '74. What to do, what to do. Get the right one? Nah, too much of a pain. Reposition the mounts in the cabin? Well, we try not to drill holes into Ludwig unless it's really worth it. Make everyone else's original Westy cots worth a little more by having the crossbars cut and lengthened on ours (<i>i.e.</i>, destroying it)? Sure.</span><br/>
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<span style="color: blue;">Esmé informed us she won't be sleeping on it until she gets bigger, "like four". And that until then, she'll play cards and dominoes on it.</span>Guest Photographertag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2011-05-25:4450389:BlogPost:341162011-05-25T17:55:52.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
<span style="color: blue;">Esmé was a big helper this weekend.…</span><br></br>
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<span style="color: blue;">Esmé was a big helper this weekend.</span><br/>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Some time ago I posted about</span> <a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2009/09/arlee-montana.html">a bus in a junkyard in Arlee</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">(MT) that I'd relieved of some of its parts. Rifling through the contents of the cabinetry I found some interesting items as well. I'd forgotten that I'd absconded with one of these items, an abandoned roll of film, which we later had developed. Full post <a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2010/11/pictures-from-junkyard-bus.html">here</a>.</span>Happy Birthday, Ludwig and One of Big Blue's Driverstag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2010-10-24:4450389:BlogPost:112152010-10-24T23:02:53.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
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<div style="text-align: center;">Ludwig's thirty-seventh year certainly wasn't his best under our watch, but here's to a much better thirty-eighth!</div>Autumn Approachingtag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2010-10-08:4450389:BlogPost:108692010-10-08T07:12:53.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">We went up the Big Hole River again (we were there once before in Ludwig, on the last trip with his old engine). It was really starting to look and feel like fall.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">E woke up just as we crossed the Big Hole River into Beaverhead (I'm not making these names up) County. We were at the very lower stretches of the Big Hole valley, reportedly one of the most magnificent valleys in Montana if not the entire West. We'll make the whole trip sometime, I promise. We inspected a recently-skinned coyote, threw some rocks in the river, and turned around.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">More of the Anaconda-Pintlars</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Coming back into the Pacific drainage South of Anaconda, we passed through prime elk habitat. This is handsome, high, sparse country. I'm looking forward to taking the family back into it for more detailed inspection in the future.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">We were on our way back from Butte, checking out the</span> <a href="http://www.threebearsalaska.com/">Three Bears Alaska</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">store there (what is the deal with <i>that</i>?) when Tater Tot fell asleep. We know the rule about letting sleeping kids lie so we decided to take a side trip along Lost Creek Road up to Lost Creek State Park.…</span><br></br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">We were on our way back from Butte, checking out the</span> <a href="http://www.threebearsalaska.com/">Three Bears Alaska</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">store there (what is the deal with <i>that</i>?) when Tater Tot fell asleep. We know the rule about letting sleeping kids lie so we decided to take a side trip along Lost Creek Road up to Lost Creek State Park.</span><br/>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The entrance was clogged by some older dude and his wife trying to turn their rig around--a big truck with a big fifth wheel camping trailer goosenecked to it. He wasn't doing a good job. Gertie is small and nimble so she slipped by, only to be halted by the guy's whistle. Paranoid that I am, I expected him to inform us that our car was hemorrhaging some fluid or other but he just asked us "if there's a place up there to turn around." I told him there was.</span><br/>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The road lightly winds up the canyon which gets to being pretty steep and narrow. See how many</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dike_%28geology%29">dikes</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">you can find on this section of the canyon's North wall.</span><br/>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Tater was still asleep at the end of the road, so Melissa and I took separate hikes (walks, actually) to the waterfall. The main campground is the trailhead. There's another trail that goes way back to the source of Lost Creek but that kind of trek wasn't on our minds, this day anyway. The kid eventually woke up and we walked with her to the falls. She liked it in her own cautious way.</span><br/>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I'm not sure this engine is fancy enough for these pictures to qualify as engine pr0n, but it looks pretty nice anyway. And look at that vacuum can on the distributor--no more 009! Finally.</span><br/>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">As is was,</span> <a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2010/03/confession.html">the trip we were on</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">when Ludwig's crankshaft snapped wasn't merely to retrieve new rotors for Gertrude. We were also scoping out the town of</span> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=missoula&daddr=Anaconda,+Deer+Lodge,+Montana&hl=en&geocode=FVI2ywId8pY0-SnLZ_NQKsxdUzEugJTKdxLj6Q%3BFebjvwIdeyhE-Sk5Rf7FXJhbUzGlcHMHBRroUg&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=42.616269,-102.564893&sspn=16.834265,38.452148&ie=UTF8&ll=46.498392,-113.356934&spn=7.879919,19.226074&t=h&z=6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Anaconda</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">, where I'd applied for a job. And a couple weeks later, I got it.</span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">So with the moving and the house buying and the new job starting and all, we really just didn't have time to rebuild Ludwig's engine ourselves.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">(The dream plan, once Ludwig is up-and-running and we're settled in, is to rebuild</span> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Gertie's</span></i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">engine (cylinder #1<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">≈</span>100 lbs of compression,</span> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">cf</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">. 110-120 on #2-4) on our own schedule, in our own garage.) I feel kind of bad about this because I've always been so gung-ho about doing it myself, and now I come off as a bit of a hypocrite. But those pictures of the engine made me feel better.</span></div>Round Three.tag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2010-06-22:4450389:BlogPost:79852010-06-22T20:30:00.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;">There is probably a contingent of ACVW owners out there who scoff at the idea of having some guy come help you with your car. I suspect many of the members of that contingent have other things in common as well: their newest (<i>i.e.</i>, "real") car is much <b>much</b> less than 36 years old, and they don't know about ACVWs nearly what they think they know. Me, I</span> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;">know</span></i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;">I don't know. And, these cars <b>are</b> our cars; we're living without net. So I like having Colin stop by. This was year three.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;">I was so ready to be proud at how I'd cleaned and organized the garage, but since it was a ghastly 80F and achingly sunny, Colin preferred that we stay outdoors and work on our melanomas. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;">Ludwig's engine still being in the hands of one</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:purple;"><a href="http://rockyjennings.com/">Rocky Jennings</a></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;">of Walla Walla, we set to work on Gertrude. There was all that trouble with the fuel hose, and when she finally just wouldn't start a few weeks ago, I assumed it was a fuel starvation issue. Nope. Colin tracked it down in about 40 seconds to poorly adjusted points, and she was running. A diagnostician I ain't.</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;">But she still wasn't running quite right--lots of stumbling at the demand for power; running very rich--so we tore tore tore in and got very intimate with Bosch D-Jetronic fuel injection.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;">There was a lot of multimeter action which I was glad to take part in because we fuelie owners especially need to know how to run these things. At one point Colin said something about his disappointment at having brought zero expertise to the situation. Uh, what? The car runs better than it ever has since we've <i>owned</i> it. Colin left at about 830pm with a word to try a cold start in the morning. If the start was good, he'd be on his way. If it was bad, he'd come back that afternoon.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;"><br/>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;">It was good.</span>This is Only a Test.tag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2010-05-20:4450389:BlogPost:65322010-05-20T03:00:00.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
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Full post <a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2010/05/this-is-only-test.html">here</a>
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The allegedly unbreakable Type IV crankshaft, broken.Spring is Comingtag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2010-03-13:4450389:BlogPost:51592010-03-13T23:30:00.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
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<p style="text-align: left;">Full post <a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2010/03/westside-missoula-vw-show-10.html">here</a><br/></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Full post <a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2010/03/westside-missoula-vw-show-10.html">here</a><br/></p>Trial Runtag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2010-03-10:4450389:BlogPost:49902010-03-10T05:30:00.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
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The rest of the story <a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2010/03/national-bison-range.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>
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The rest of the story <a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2010/03/national-bison-range.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Missoulaneous ACVWstag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2010-01-31:4450389:BlogPost:36762010-01-31T15:30:00.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
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Full post <a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2010/01/missoulaneous-acvws.html" target="_blank">here</a>Old Soultag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2010-01-27:4450389:BlogPost:32812010-01-27T05:30:18.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
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Full post <a href="http://www.ludwigandgertie.com/2010/01/old-soul.html" target="_blank">here</a>.
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<span style="color: blue;">At first, Tater Tot was indifferent to the whole scene. I think bumpy roads are evocative of the womb or something and put her to sleep.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">All the tree-tying-down commotion woke Tater Tot up just in time to have some fun in the snow. We held the first session of Outdoor</span> <span style="color: blue;">Winter</span> <span style="color: blue;">Survival 101--when dining upon snow, eat the snow off tree branches, not off the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">In the meantime a red Volvo (<i>Head</i>light wipers? Pfffftt.) had pulled up aft, stymieing my plan to back back onto the road, which made Gertie's exit less than graceful. Melissa made both of these hats and the scarf.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;">On the way back into town, we heard this <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Jetta</span> Passat honking at us. Who was it but Sarah, John, and Avery (Esmé's BFF, in the rear seat), just back from defoliating a bit of forest for themselves. And in</span> <i><span style="color: blue;">their</span></i> <span style="color: blue;">VW wagon no less. Truly it was a Christmas Miracle--or an Xmas Coincidence, depending upon one's predilections.</span>
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The rest of the story <a href="http://ludwigcampervanbeethoven.blogspot.com/2009/12/laundry-list.html" target="_blank">here</a>.
Not mine. Found in an Idiot Book I got recently.<p style="text-align:left"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iMyLiZyNW90/SxiPP7VDlQI/AAAAAAAAGn4/UDHz1KJGqCI/s400/IMG_3319.JPG"/></p>
The rest of the story <a href="http://ludwigcampervanbeethoven.blogspot.com/2009/12/laundry-list.html" target="_blank">here</a>.Ludwig mobbed by strange womentag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2009-12-05:4450389:BlogPost:16132009-12-05T23:00:00.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
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Full post <a href="http://ludwigcampervanbeethoven.blogspot.com/2009/12/paparazzi.html" target="_blank">here</a>.
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We got Gertie's birth certificate! Full post <a href="http://ludwigcampervanbeethoven.blogspot.com/2009/12/its-girl.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.
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We got Gertie's birth certificate! Full post <a href="http://ludwigcampervanbeethoven.blogspot.com/2009/12/its-girl.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.A River Runs Through Ittag:vwcamperfamily.ning.com,2009-11-29:4450389:BlogPost:12772009-11-29T22:46:15.000Zwhc03gradyhttps://vwcamperfamily.ning.com/profile/whc03grady
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A recent trip along the Blackfoot. For the post, <a href="http://ludwigcampervanbeethoven.blogspot.com/2009/11/river-runs-through-it.html" target="_blank">click here.</a>
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A recent trip along the Blackfoot. For the post, <a href="http://ludwigcampervanbeethoven.blogspot.com/2009/11/river-runs-through-it.html" target="_blank">click here.</a>