what's going on everybody Eric here from nomadic fanatic coming to you from
Camp Vagabond Vagabond Camp here at campervan Kevin's base camp he has uh graciously invited
me to stay here to try to get on top of a few things that I am waiting for to get
back on the road to my normal self so uh this is Arizona desert who would want to stay here
yeah thanks for joining me guys I am here in uh near Show Low Arizona here this is
uh camper van Kevin's new name uh his guy on the tractor dug this up it's from an old like
60s trailer or something like that Vagabond so this is Camp Vagabond here in Arizona and uh I'll
be honest with you I'm kind of just uh waiting things out but I'm gonna give you an update on
what how things are going and everything I will be uploading this video with some Nomad internet and
you'll find a link below in the video description for Unlimited Mobile Internet I'm getting a little
bit out here but I think starlink is kind of King out here beautiful beautiful Country Sunshine but
well I've only seen it from videos this is my first time physically being out here and
it is a full house here of course Kevin's got a couple more uh units here and there's some
Vans and RVs and this place is pretty full right now we got Carolyn and Ron under the
tree under there say hi guys hi and uh Felix is over here he's running some errands right
now purple tiny house over there my new friends Frank and Tammy and the RB here there's Felix's
Miss Gypsy there's the Bigfoot there Kevin's Bigfoot and tater tot and over here you guys
saw my last couple videos you know I'm still still waiting still waiting to get tater tot
back on the road I've taken off the front tire here uh just in case I mean I am scouring a
um basically a Statewide search here for a used tire that are that are back ordered here
um so the tires off so that I can throw the rim and this tire this huge tire that
you know does not really fit the Smart car but it but it could in an emergency
um I got the rim though and I got some other tires coming in fact I have two that I'm waiting
for that are coming here to Vagabond base camp I'm just waiting but I am uh comfortable enough
here I've got Frida over here with the awning now weather is perfect getting plenty of solar over
here to just Boondock here at the property oh we've got a martini there Lamborghini
one of Kevin's Yorkies Tucker's out getting a walk and baby maymay's inside so you know but the thing
is so why haven't I made any videos and explored this area uh because I have the motorcycle right
wrong uh you you would think that with two extra vehicles that those redundancies would keep me on
the road unfortunately I ran into a little problem I will show you where Reba the rebel is right now
so over here in Kevin's matching garage here uh here's his Honda monkey and there's killer Mo
over there and sadly here sits Reba the rebel uh she stranded me as well guys so I was gonna
go on the hunt for uh tires and some other quirky stuff around the area I got my helmet and gloves
and everything got on Reba fired it up went out to the main road out here not five miles away
just kind of sputtered star for gas and died it took me 10 minutes to get the bike back started
full tank of gas I couldn't see anything else wrong it did fire back up but then it would not
drive every single gear first second just at the top of those gears it just drags out like it's
star for fuel and uh would not get me home now if I'd been anywhere else in the country not close
to friends this would have been a scary incident luckily Kevin got on his uh red tracker put on
the uh motorcycle rack on the back came picked me up we loaded up Reba brought Reba back here
to Vagabond and uh we've already got some things diagnosed we found some issues one of Kevin's uh
mechanic friends Ed came over and we cleaned out the carb blew out the lines and uh tried to tune
it up but unfortunately there are some issues the bottom Bowl leaks one of the sides of the
carburetor does not actually flow any gasoline down also took the petcock off on the other
side the petcock over here currently in the off position took this off the tank and it doesn't
even have a bottom filter strainer it also does not have a fuel filter of any kind anywhere in
this and when we opened up the gas tank we found a little surprise a 2006 Honda Rebel motorcycle with
only what 600 and some miles the tank is full of rust when we finally blew out the lines underneath
it was nothing but dirt grime and little portions of rust that tank is ugly inside so ultimately
that means that I don't have a vehicle right now however since I'm sitting here waiting to find
some tires on the Smart car we went ahead and ordered an entire new fuel system unfortunately
Reba's beautiful pearl white tank right here is going to be replaced temporarily with an
aftermarket brand new tank I've also ordered them other dual carburetor down there and a petcock
with new hoses so sometime hopefully in the next week to 10 days we are going to completely redo
the fuel system for just under 200 in fact so so really a 500 bike invest 200 in a brand new fuel
system and then I'm going to be riding this thing at least every other day I'm going to be starting
it up on the back of the RV at least every day so we're not going to have those problems with
a gunked up carb or rust getting into the tank because I'm going to take care of Reba
after that but I'm still getting caught up right now so these are the parts that we have coming
hopefully as they come in we'll just kind of get everything ready and then maybe by that time I'll
have a couple tires for the car so that I can gain confidence uh leaving in in the car safely
and exploring but uh until then Reap is gonna just uh sit here and wait patiently not not
giving up on her just uh need to be patient all right so a little update here on uh Reba hanging
out with Felix big dog over here it's good to see him you're starting your uh cancer treatment here
Wednesday couple days written for you buddy thank you thank you uh as you can see Reba's taken apart
partially we found something so uh took off the tank because uh I mean while I'm waiting might as
well try to clean this I'm going to coat it with some vinegar and see if we can get rid of the uh
rust in the tank well not really sure if this is a backflow line but this was hooked into the bottom
of the tank and I want you to take a a close peek there the way it was installed it was completely
crimped underneath the tank so even if this is a backflow into the tank or a pressurized system or
something that is a sign of an issue that I never would have known had I not taken off the tank here
so we're going to clip that move that down when we reinstall it but just something something to
consider that that could be a a huge issue in fact okay so I got the new carb coming and the
new petcock coming in the meantime gonna go ahead and seal up the tank and put in
some vinegar that I got at Walmart love these Zep products industrial cleaner with vinegar
this is one gallon and this is a 2.6 gallon tank so I'm going to put this in a safe place cork it
all up add this add a little bit of water put a lid on it and let it sit for two or three
days and see if we can get rid of some of that rust in there in the meantime we got the other
parts coming and I'm just going to keep working on this it might pull the carb and just keep
looking because obviously there's some issues in here that somebody cut some corners and uh
did not do a very good job of putting this back together at one time so good news right we found
something got the sunset over there behind the purple tiny house there Tammy's man in the grill
here making some burgers for dinner have a little cookout tonight yeah yeah got a fire started there
a dog and a burger chips ah it's good stuff Kevin good living I love it dinner was awesome we got
a campfire over here so we're just gonna just gonna hang out here in Plano Arizona you know
or tater tots it's getting old but I two tires coming So eventually tater tot Will Will Roll
again you guys want to go see Opie and Tara what's up Opie is Tara being good oh she put the toy down
there is that why you're playing with your toy Tara yeah no you're done you're done as soon as
I turn the game hammer on all right you left your toy that's right it's right there by your footsies
why'd you put it down there it's harder to play with down there
need to know Tara he's a pretty Tara yeah you big ham attack you're such a big attack of ham
look at you you got eye goobies you got the eye goobies don't have igoobies soapy you're a good
boy I love you buddy so yeah hopefully uh here in a couple days we'll get either tater tot or Reba
up and going until then I'm just gonna just gonna chill here in Arizona it's great it's
awesome please consider giving me a thumbs up on the video subscribe to the channel if you haven't
already and leave a comment and say something nice and Opie and Tara and I will see you soon bye guys
look at it look at me she's looking at me but uh they told him
help
I don't know man come on kisses stuck I've seen the cat before that's a good one
there's no such thing yeah they're evil they carry the plague no no Tucker they're not all bad
yeah read it read it wait you okay I mean you're nice kitty now we know look at Martinez sticking
their head through them what is that here we go here we go Tucker Tucker come here
you old dumb dog you scared my kid my cat my nut my company
go say hey
thank you