Recent content by kurtomatic

The NOCO chargers are, in fact, genius. Highly recommended. Yes. I do this with my RV coach all the time. A 4 x 10A charger will charge 4 batteries together as if it was a 40A charger. The NOCOs are pretty sophisticated about handling a situation like that.

At 5'8", I resemble that remark, mister! But, as @NDT says, we take up 2 pallet spots, so that's worth something, right? 🤡

Ok, now it's my turn to bitch about oddball crate ripoff shipping prices. Here I go: 🌟🔪🔫✊🌀⛈🌧🌩🔨💣❗👊🗡☠💀 YOU! This has to be a pretty common problem with trading going on in a community like this. I mean, when the "30-day rolling average" for a 200 lbs crate is nearly 3 times the fuel cost for me...

Thanks. A 5-ton is outside my current envelope for a number of reasons. However, the Deuce is also pretty well suited to my use case. I already live and work fulltime as a seasonal "digital nomad" in an RV, and do not need another one, LOL. 😄 Adding this Deuce to my vehicle fleet 😝 is...

I want to thank everyone for some amazing responses today, I really appreciate it! 🤘 I am very intrigued by the LMTV adaptation and I did some reading on the various approaches. I feel like that's a project I could do given a little time. However, it looks like I'm going to be able to close a...

Copy that. I will call SECO tomorrow. The JATONKA wood structure seems like a great deal, but shipping this stuff appears to be the biggest challenge with it, LOL.

Thanks, I just saw that! SECO has been turning up in a lot of my searches for various items; is this a vendor I should take seriously? There's a guy on Ebay out of Tennessee (hdps_corp) that has the complete, in crate, NOS kit with all required hardware. For $2K. I'm seeing mid-to-high teens...

I guess I should also mention that "military reproduction" (in terms of exactness with color, treatment, etc., for a restoration) is not important for this truck. Not that I don't appreciate the restorations, but my truck is well past whatever original appearance it had, and I am adapting it to...

LOL, thanks for that info, very helpful. I can afford a hotel room, but dang that will add up fast. I am totally good investing in a new cover kit, because I feel like that is an investment, whereas a hotel room feels like an expense. Plus, I am only thinking of camping in the truck for 2-3...

Hey all, While I am waiting on a few other things to come together, I want to start making plans for using my Deuce out at my property, which is currently still 100% raw land without utilities or even driveway access. One of the things I am considering (after I dismount the water tanks), is...

Hey everyone, just a late follow up here... My A3 is out of the shop with the full front bearing conversion kit to the A2 style axles. For me, I took that decision a little hard, because despite the issues associated with the CTIS, I'd have preferred to make the decision to take it out on my...

Yes, I would like to assure everyone I have read the horror stories. 😅 I will absolutely make good use of these tanks, but currently I need the bed space more. So my intent at the moment is to dismount the tanks for the time being. They may even be repurposed as on-site water storage tanks. I...

Thanks so much! I got off the highway pretty quick, and luckily I was in town. Within 5 miles of noticing the steering starting to pull, I was in a Lowe's parking lot. At no time did I hear anything unusual, and definitely no screeching or other classic bearing failure sounds. So hopefully the...

Welp, I went a bought my 'starter' truck last weekend. 😅 I went forward with a M35A3 that seems to suit my needs pretty well. It was cheap, and it's something between turn-key and trailer project. I drove it 230 flawless miles on the way home before the right front bearings started to go. It's...

As someone who experienced a bearing failure OTR on Sunday, here is an interesting observation my co-pilot spotted... I pulled off as soon as the truck started pulling to the right, and at first we were thinking brakes. While we were diagnosing, I tried pumping the brakes with the engine off to...