They consist of repairs of both a vehicle and home all wrapped up into one.. And owning two motorhomes quadruples that of owning a single home! This week's project is the refrigerator sprung a leak in my American Eagle. It's an absorption type. That's powered by heat from propane flame or electric. It uses ammonia rather than Freon. The telltale sign of a leak is the obvious smell. That in most cases means trashing the unit. However the Amish are the master's in making replacement components in the USA. Since electricity is banned from their daily use, they can cool using natural gas.. Hence absorption refrigerator rule in their communities...

American Eagle Motorhome..pulling my enclosed car hauler.


Twelve cubic feet four door model with auto ice-maker. Top two doors are freezer, bottom two are refrigerator. Weighs just over 200 pounds. Took off the doors and removed from its' nesting place..




The passenger seat and entry door needs to be removed to get the refrigerator out of the coach. So I stacked the one coach on to the other and have enough room to work around.




I ordered the replacement refrigerant unit and will dive into this project after it arrives... Never a dull moment around OldCarGuy's place...

Bits are not hard to get out, but mine have detent balls in lieu of o-rings.  I got mine in S. Florida around 2000.  Either at Restoration hHardware or at Brookstone.  Both stores were newly opened on a project in W.P.B.  Now that you mentioned it, I wouldn't mind having the same setup in all of my vehicles.  Torx tips have also been useful.

I've got a no name claw hammer thats been with me for 50+ years. I've replaced the handle several times but I will never intentionally get rid of that hammer. I dont recall where or when I got it. its was my hammer as a kid growing up. Nailed tons of shingles on, smashed lots of thumbs and fingers. Flipped several houses... I made a lot of money with that hammer.

That folding T handle driver is a must have for me.  Working at a car dealership always had one in my pocket, great for under dash repairs, always had Philips 1-2-3s, + straight tip which saved a lot of running back to the tool box.  Found my first one marked Crescent, in a box next to the cash register in my local hardware.  It is my shop somewhere.

Came across this SS beauty the other day. Nice and compact, all metal construction, designed and assembled in the USA.

https://kmotorperformance.com/shop/stainless-steel-pocket-screwdriver-with-magnet-clip-phillips-flat-k20-tools/