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To me, it seems complicated for something self-sustained. "Good" hand tools will work for a 5/4-ton truck - I can see the need for air tools if you are planning on doing a lot of work - but what are you really expecting to do, and for how long? Pressurizing a shower is great with air pressure...

Why not trade the M1010 for an M1031? :)

I think the length of the trailers is the issue in general - short trailers have a fast/short frequency/period - this of this like a clock pendulum - the shorter the distance from the fulcrum to the weight the faster it swings. Other than that, you'll have to put a damper in the hitch system so...

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Personally I think some California laws, well... I'll leave that one where it is... :) My concern is that people are treating the wilderness areas like a game of Grand Theft Auto - do as much crap as fast as you can with no consequences because the reality is everyone can't be watched at all...

Yeah, more parts coming this week, next week and the week after - and still trying to get the other half of the truck. I'm not going to make my hoped-for cutt-off, but it'll be done by the end of the year for sure.

Not that I disagree with the thought process here, as an Eagle Scout - I was brought up with "Pack out what you brought in," and "Leave a place nicer than you found it." From the posts here I can see that they were close but wrong, I'll be teaching my son "Pack out more than you packed in AND...

That's exactly the type of qualification I was expecting. When I started doing my truck, I was also hearing "Oh yeah I finished it in a month..." from a lot of people - but then in disbelief, I started digging, and found the stories to be much the same. I have seen Cummins swaps done for less...

If it has to be street legal, make sure your actual backup light (not the rear auxiliary lights) has the SAE-R marking on the lens - L.E.O. can cite you otherwise, mounting location is also important. This guide from TruckLite with pictures etc, should help. I'm using this LED fixture from...

This statement should be qualified, I'm doing a 6BT in a square body crew cab that's being turned into a CUCV, I have about year into the truck and I'm still getting parts collected. Expect to spend around $5-10K putting a 6BT in "correctly". The time it takes depends on what level of...

Summit should have them, Jegs, pretty much any parts store - this is a service type item.

So just doing a quick Google search shows threads where the 24V 13G glow plugs will swell before failing, making them a pain to remove. All recommendations seem to point towards AC-Delco 60G glow plugs since they self regulate, but these are 12 volt only. This means you need the ballast...

I think AC Delco has/had a 13G glow plug that takes 24V, no idea on the quality though. I had a 7.4L V8 in the fake-CUCV truck I'm building, and it's getting a Cummins 6BT - so grid heater instead of glow plugs. Someone else should be able to chime in f they have used them before. The...

I just read the part about bypassing the 12/24 resistor - is your truck already 12V only? If not, you will burn out your 14V glow plugs on the first power-on. If you're having trouble with the glow plug system, I'd suggest temporarily bypassing the controller with a momentary switch. The...

Since you're upgrading, why not put in ANL fuses? In my Toyota pickup, I did a 180 Amp alternator, so I had to uprate the electrical in general. I did a 200AMP ANL within 18" of the alternator, ran both a positive and negative 1/0 direct to the battery through one more 80 Amp ANL (replaced he...

Having lived here for 25+ years, I agree - we "breed them smart but make them dumb" here, lots of ideas but no rationality filter. :) I apologize for making a cluster {expletive} of this - but really it's the manufacturers who do it, in the 80's GM was calling anything with a rating over...

If you are over 10K, and go outside 100 miles radius from your home in CA - you fall under federal rules, log book, medical exam, and CDL. I am aware that the VIN decode also tells you what GM designed the brakes to support in GVWR/GCVW, none of the light duty stuff is rated for more than...

I was just thinking about the burns on the back of my left leg after driving a friend's Cobra - and the first rock you slide over with your rocker panel will probably sputter your engine to a stall...

The V71 V92 engines don't have a common rail fuel system, just a gear driven lift pump mounted on the front of the roots blower - the only way to "turn up the fuel" is to put in larger injectors ($$$). Even with the DDEC engines the cam shaft charges the injector, DDEC only allows the release...

And if you do that, you can locate the radiator for the aftercooler outside the existing engine air streams - this is similar to what was done on the A1, lot of coolers everywhere, not all of them stuck on the front of the radiator. After all, if you're spendinf the time to make sure that you...