{"id":384,"date":"2017-02-28T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feiereisen.net\/?page_id=384"},"modified":"2017-02-28T22:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:07:26","slug":"the-rig-and-its-travails","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/?page_id=384","title":{"rendered":"The Rig and its Travails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of our traveling and exploring on the ground is in this old rig, a 1999 Ford F-350 that carries a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourwh.com\/\">4-Wheel Pop-Up<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Granby&#8221;. Having had previous experience with the same brand on an old Toyota pickup, I knew how I wanted to configure it. <a href=\"http:\/\/feiereisen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4780.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-389 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/feiereisen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4780-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4780-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4780-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4780-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0I bought both new in late 1998 and have kept and maintained them for \u00a0eighteen years. In my humble opinion the 4-Wheel brand is the most robust out there. It is built on a tig-welded aluminum frame and stands up to long-time off-road twisting and turning. It has been mostly trouble free, although I recently did some renovations \u00a0after eighteen years of use.<\/p>\n<p>The Ford is a stretch-cab, long-box, 7.3 liter diesel with the 6-speed manual gearbox. Having had Japanese vehicles for many years, I was not prepared for the continuous repairs that this vehicle has required. it is basically a robust and sound off-road truck, but in the approximately 150,000 miles that we&#8217;ve driven it, numerous things have broken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of our traveling and exploring on the ground is in this old rig, a 1999 Ford F-350 that carries a 4-Wheel Pop-Up\u00a0&#8220;Granby&#8221;. Having had previous experience with the same brand on an old Toyota pickup, I knew how I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/?page_id=384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions\/391"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feiereisen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}