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Add work gloves, jumper cables, a tow strap, a tire guage, spare fuses, a spare tail light bulb, a spare headlight bulb (if your beast uses them instead of a sealed beam unit), a small first aid kit, and a cell phone, even if you buy a cheapie and use a phone card with it.

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Hose repair tape and a couple hose clamps.

 

Coveralls and gloves..I second that one. Last october my heater core blew up on my way to a job interview. I was cutting the hoses off the firewall and connecting them with a barb in a parking lot wearing a suit.

 

-Heikki

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I have always carried a small roll of utility wire, a clothes hanger might work but you can buy a small spool of something more maleable that will do just fine. Cost less than $5.

 

doesn't take up much room and can have many applications like keeping a muffler that has lost a bracket in place.

 

 

A good tool kit is like Pepto Bismol, "It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

 

Good luck on your trip.

 

sam

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I carry all the time a small air compressior that plugs into cig. lighter and tire plugs. Not the Wal Mart plugs but the brown ones made by Camel.

If you all going alone audio books are great, is someone is going with you forget it. Books on tape web site is great they have C.D. and tape rental.

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Road flares come to mind. Besides there intended purpose, they were a life saver on a road trip to Alaska a few years back. We broke done in the Middle of Nowhere, Canada and it was cold and wet. The flares worked great for instant firestarters when nothing else would get a fire started.

 

Oh yea, and large sized zip ties and a pair of pliers can fix a whole lot.

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