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It will obviously strengthen that area, however it may also cause stress risers due to the increased stiffness. Crossmembers are needed and there is a large variation between FMTV models. There will likely be more stress on bushings, but less stress on the frame.

Can you connect to it? Just beware, even if the abs ECU is dead, it will still looks like it connects (it won't error out and will have some strange values in certain fields in wabco software).

It is! Last time I worked with a big one, it was off the coast of Angola on a pipe lay barge. I designed, built, then on site supported a laser scanning system to inspect the interior weld of the pipes. Had to climb a ladder to this spot to do testing on the slip ring as we were...

Building myself the whole thing myself. There will need to be a gap with accordion seals, or similar. MTVR bed is rigidly mounted at the rear and spring captured at the front. The cab is also mounted with shocks in the rear so there will be a fair degree of movement between the two.

Just a mounting screw for the ecm.

Playing around with a few ideas. Both are 13' tall. Both connect to the cab and back window area - those two panels to be removed and create a large passthough to the habitat. This one uses sliding expandable sides like normal RVs use: 2045 ft^3 This one uses folding sides - similar to how...

That won't strengthen it. Those things are made out of mild steel. The only way you're going to strengthen it is if you heated up cherry hot and then quench - but it would have to have a reasonably high carbon content for that to work, which I doubt it does. I just rebent mine, no issues.

They bend easily while still in the truck. Put a dowel or something underneath the latch and just push it towards the clamping area and that will cause a bend in the middle and enable it to be tightened up. You can also just bend it with hand strength, they're pretty spindly.

Haven't gotten around to it, but I don't see any reason not to use a design similar, but use that sandwich plate as the main strength element. Make it 1/2" or greater, put gussets in the right locations. Get longer bolts. Done deal.

I never dealt with them till my FMTV last year, learned a lot since then. I haven't tried tried filling my supply line yet on the MTVR but it works great on the FMTV. Emergency gladhand is a standard setup. All of this requires no major leaks in your air system. I would have some cage bolts just...

Damn, sorry you had an idiot shove the wrong thing in the wrong hole. Nice work on the fix though! I would use a little rtv, very little. A little loose piece of rtv can cause all sorts of issues in a trans with all the moving control bits.

You should be able to put whatever fitting you want on the supply reservoir valve (remove valve, install a valve Something like this...

I use a seek thermal camera similar to this one: https://www.thermal.com/seek-nano.html

For releasing the parking brakes with the front emergency gladhand (the truck will roll if you do this - this doesn't supply air to the service brakes): A gladhand...

What is "add flush"? Anecdotal, but my trans had 15w40, I pulled the return line(at trans) and let the truck run till it spit some air. Filled with transynd 668 and ran till red started pushing out the hose. Then reconnected and filled to appropriate level. It worked well for me, although I...

No pictures but good steps. Bolted the locker manifold in place and bloodied my knuckles getting all the air lines back on. Checked oil in all the hubs and thankfully all was golden. No milkshake, all gears looked great too (as much as I could see though the hole). I did find a stripped plug...

For caging, the front is service brake so nothing needed, middle axle has a captured cage bolt so no need to worry about it missing, rear axle uses normal cage bolts and there are two cans, so two bolts. Note I have not done this myself yet but it's from information I've gathered, so grain of...

Connector: Canfield Connector 5100-1010000 - you could use normal spade connectors in a pinch. Diodes: 1N4007 tons of different manufacturers of these. Solenoid coil and valves I pulled off another manifold. Coils are Metal Work Pneumatic 882765 I didn't use, but here is a compatible coil with...

Nope, already was detached, but is also extremely simple to remove, just one clamp so not and issue for a transporter. Seems most are already off at the yards. Thankfully they also moved the flapper onto the shorter pipe so no water got into the exhaust (and then to the engine).

Spent a little time on the locker manifold. Had an error on one of the solenoids "open or short" so I couldn't engage the front locker. Also saw an inactive code for another solenoid issue. Taking a look at the manifold solenoids they were in rough shape. Lots of corrosion in the plug that would...