Recent content by DannyBtruckn

Did you ever post pics of your build?

Check out how much material was used for the floor frame of the van body. The flat aluminum that covered the wheels was 1/4” thick sheet. This whole frame was clamped to the truck frame without any spring mechanism for torsional flex. 1079 uses springs. I think they relied on the whole 1087 van...

She cleaned up nicely.

Not sure what you mean by leveling pads. There wasnt anything like this included with my truck. I do remember there were places on the bottom corners of the van unit where a leveling jack could be attached (they had two lobed studs protruding) but were unlike anything ive seen before. also I...

The I-beam might make a decent mount for a vise or a light duty anvil.

Cut it up into plinking targets.

Is this the same harness that plugs into the oil pressure sending unit?. Im still reading no oil pressure on my C7. (Haven’t completed troubleshooting yet) but I did notice the wire branching out to the 3pin Deutsch connected was very short.

Why did they make the harness so short? Maybe some MBA six sigma clipboard warrior figured they could save a few cents per vehicle?

If I had that I’d be driving it to pick up groceries.

I was able to repurpose 3 of the windows.

Yeah, they really missed the boat on design for usability. Slide outs are nice to open the central area but what are you going to do with a hallway running around the center of your hab? (For those not familiar the slide out floors on the m1087 store upright and hinge down when slid out.)

I’m an idiot for dismantling and loading the scrap onto my car hauler all by hand. All I had to load it was a tiny ATV winch on the trailer. Had to get creative with bottle jacks, trail jacks, and comealongs. Only almost died twice and was sore for a month after. What’s dumb is I have a big...

This truck has sure done a lot of trips on a trailer. Glad Uncle Sam is stimulating our country’s owner operators. Manufactured in Texas and probably went to PA and then wrecked being hauled through Ohio. Then to Hooks, TX , Fort Cavazos, then to an auction yard in Springtown, and lowboyed to a...