So the MTVR adventure begins

Changed all the diff fluids today, front one had a sliver but looks like its a piece of the NPT threads on the fill/drain. Middle may have had a tinyyyy bit of water but scoping the diff internals showed no rust.
Got the new batteries and the wallet is hurting (6-700 a piece) from the AGMs but with my experience with flooded lead acid in my MTV I wanted the increased CCA of AGM (although the C12 starts way faster than the C7 so maybe it wouldn't be an issue.)

Touched a plug on the ABS module (or maybe TC) and it just crumbled like a dried out cookie. I assume every other connector is the same. Nice thing is, they are just seals so the pins can still be connected.


Found 2 ball joint seals that are cracked. Not looking forward to that as the replacement process is very involved.
The big surprise....Saw a castle nut backed off on the "tie rod". The taper was also loose. Had this nut fallen off, the rear wheel would have turned violently to left or right. Glad I caught it. Looks like when a service was done, the nut wasn't tightened and as such the cotter pin wasn't installed.

Have been doing a lot of boring stuff lately, pulling stock heater for future AC install, lining floor with vibration damping (the good, pricey stuff from resonix). Got the floormatt material from the same supplier to the military (supposedly-it does match the floor matt of my MTV). Installed the keyed door handles. Put on the sides and cover to let the kids at my sons school play around in it. (The stock 12v converter powered the fridge filled with ice cream without issue).

Original heater panel was in bad shape, cracked. I also didn't get a new panel in my AC kit and they seem to be unobtainable on their own. 3D printed a new one with transparent letters so the LED backlight would still work - although it doesn't end up lighting it very well. Old fan switch was a bit rough so replaced that as well, and put in a switch for the future AC install.


Few pictures of the mounting methods for the new seats. The aluminum bar on the rear bulkhead is tied into the truck with 8 bolts across it's length. Each seat has 4 bolts. The seat bottoms fold down and can rest on the storage box. The drivers seat had to be moved over a few inches to fit the 4 across.