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This is what you need. I just did one tonight that held up for 28,000 miles, and the seal actually went bad.

Do not reuse the cork. Throw it away and just fill the keyway with silicone. When you slide the outer bearing on, make sure the inside of it is clean and grease free. After you slide it on, make sure that you fill the space between the bearing and keyway with silicone again. Then slide the seal...

You need to use grey " gear oil" silicone. Permatex makes it and it says "gear oil" on the blister pack. Other silicones just don't hold up to gear oil very well.

Only 8,000? I've put 4,000 on mine since I put my new motor and trans in, literally finishing a couple of days before the GA rally.

If your current paint job doesn't have any bad peeling or chipping spots it could take 3-4 days. Generally a week of straight work and good weather is what you should budget for. If your paint now is in real good shape we could probably do it in 2-3 days. I get high quality PPG paint cheap too...

When are you coming south again? I forgot. If you have time, and I'm healed up when you come through, we can put a nice paint job on your truck that won't cost you a fortune. That is, provided you have time.

Glad to hear you got the solar figured out. There are a couple other members here building campers and incorporating solar systems, and it seems that minimum panel requirement is around 1000 watts unless you like pi*sing in the wind.

You'll want more than one panel. Probably four at the least, at 250 watts per panel. You want to have more charge capacity than your minimum draw with the fridge and air conditioner running, this way the batteries recover quicker.

So you run everything from a generator while stopped, or do you run some things from a battery bank and inverter? You should be able to run everything you need from solar with enough battery bank and good panels.

Cool. That is nicely fitted out. I hope you are going through all of your hubs before you make the trip.

Pretty cool man. Get us some pics of your spread in the camper if you don't mind.