Junkyard Finds

The good thing about having a weekend free is that we can spend all Saturday afternoon gathering materials, start on a project before sundown, and finish up before nightfall on Sunday. Productivity rose to an all time high this weekend as we set out to the local (not really local, it's like 20 miles away) junkyard in search of solutions to our RV problems.

The gas caps that we have on both of the RV tanks are the old non-locking gas caps and they are pain to mount on. The man got so fed up with the gas caps that we made a special trip to the junkyard just for threaded screw-in mounts. And if you try to replace the gas caps, you're going to have to replace the filler neck that runs to the tank as well. Lucky for us, we found an older truck to pull them off of and two screw-in caps off an old duel-tank van to top them off.

The pot-of-gold was in the old Dodge hi-top that was sitting in the middle of the Big Trucks section. Its big bubble-gum blue doors locked in big comfortable reclining seats suitable for long trips. They look just like Business-class airplane seats--the plush kind with the over-sized headrests. They are so luxurious that I wanted to put them in the living room! One of the seats and its mounting bracket were already pulled, so Johnny spent about ten laborious minutes unbolting the driver's seat. Two seats and brackets for the work of one and at $20.99 a pop, we got a great deal!

After a few more menial tasks like pulling the 12V lighter from some of the vans and all the interior light bulbs, and we called the junkyard trip a success.