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Over the weekend I went to look at an M1079 van body for sale that was located on a very remote ranch. The road up to the ranch was tight, steep, loose rocky, rutted, and full of tight switchbacks. To be honest, it was getting close to about as much as I would want to do with my truck offroad...

No parking brake is completely failsafe when total neglect of maintenance has gone on for years. Wheel chalks are easy enough to carry as a back up.

Anyone look at the Bulldog HD1215-0126 yet?

I have the software, but pretty much gave up getting it to work because I don't have the aforementioned subscription. So, I'm just going to pay the local Allison distributor to do it. If someone knows how to get it working, a PM would be appreciated.

I was going to post the same thing, the parking brake system is fail safe, takes air pressure to release them. That’s why you need to carry caging bolts.

I’ve thought about having the programming changed to that scenario as well. Did you reprogram it yourself? I have the Allison software, but getting it to work is a challenge, and then there are so many options and how things are named isn’t intuitive relative to what it does.

Not sure when I’ll make it over there. It’s likely two visits for me since the tech thinks he’ll have to request the programming change from Allison. First visit will be him pulling the current programming from mine to send to Allison. I also have a spare TCM that I want him to clone once I get...

Contact info for the Allison distributor I'm talking to about some programming on my A1R. Tech in the shop I spoke with is Michael, super knowledgeable. Lynn Rumble Branch Manager 2195 Alpine Way Hayward , CA 94545 Lrumble@wwwilliams.com o...

Nice truck, would love to see some more photos of the front bumper mods.

Do you need good performance on snowy roads? When I was looking for tires for my Ram last time, Stazworks had new PS22’s at a great price.

Yeah, no doubt it's no super effective after the Eco hubs install, no fault of the hubs of course. The speed it will stay engaged to will depend on TC lockup, so my guess is the speed your exhaust brake is disengaging now is likely where the TC is unlocking.

Doubt you’ll get that. For trans health, exhaust brake requires TC lockup.

Allison can change the programing. I'm about to have some programing done to the TCM in my A1R. Happy to provide contact info for the Allison distributor/service center I'm dealing with. I'm in Norcal too and the Allison distributor I'm dealing with is in Hayward, so depending on where you are...

It's a helper spring setup that augments the coil springs when the camper was on it. In my LMTV, I was thinking about only leaving the leaf springs that are captive in the mount and shackle, for obvious reasons, and then using King coilovers to gain back the load capacity to get a more compliant...

Air bags are tough to do without seriously limiting suspension trave due to how quickly the spring rate increases as the bags are compressed, and the pretty limited travel between fully extended and fully compressed. I built a long travel airbag system for my ram that achieves full...

I thought the Michelins were the tire everyone wants to avoid due to frequent blowouts? Is that a different Michelin?

Just checked their site, looks like no 395's currently.

You can get MPT81’s in 395/80 R20 new from expedition imports. Great tires in every respect accept tread life. Supposedly there is a new version coming with a new rubber compound that supposedly improves tread life by 30%.

And stock size. I think the only way to get HCS's in this country is military surplus as they are used on some vehicles, so don't know if you could find these in stock size here. https://vrakking-tires.com/20-inch/167-39585r20-continental-hcs.html

Yep, they are...