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My profile pic is the duece we own, our dueces bumper is stock and un modified. The general Lee 5-ton we did had a stock non winch bumper, we installed an electric winch and then plated the stock bumper, I believe there are pictures in this thread. The Intimidator 5 ton has a hydrualic...

We wanted the bed real low so if we were in rough terrain pulling the fifth wheel trailer we would have maximum clearance.

The build starts when we recover the truck from Gettysburg PA. Left Albuqeuque NM on a Thursday afternoon flew to Pittsburgh, picked up truck Friday morning, 1900 mile trip back, had a few issues but rolled into town early Sunday afternoon. 1- Installed lockers 2- Packed all the wheel bearings...

No this truck will go to the lake same as the General Lee we built last year. My son has some better pics, I will have him post them later

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In generator applications glow plugs are not used, I have installed diesel generators from 15KW to 2megawatts. What is required is a block heater, In an application where you do not have commercial power available glow plugs would work with a relay for the glow plugs and a time delay relay for...

Truck turned out to be an oil cooler and not as difficult as we thought. My son took the truck to the lake and it worked real well. The winch worked well probably better than expected. I think we may install an ammeter in the cab because with the truck running you cant hear how loaded the winch...

I am afraid its terminal and will require an in frame. We have only put about 4 or 5 hours on the truck so I think the damage was done prior to us getting the truck.:-(

Thanks. We took the truck out this weekend. Seemed to work good, after a coule days it got a little hot (205) so we starting checking a few things with the advise from a good friend. He was right about what to check we found water in the oil and lost some water from the cooling system. So I...

Never doing any rock climbing to speak of, would a stock duece have enough power to attemt something that steep? Low range low is still not all that low. The video looked pretty scary, I know the sound was on but I was suprised no one said a word. Like I said cool video.[thumbzup]

We run sigles and lower the air pressure to between 12 and 15 pounds, 12 back 15 front. It makes a huge difference in the sand, The truck does not get stuck aired up but it will not pull stuff as hard. It starts wheel hopping and bucking. If you buy hemmit wheels go the extra mile and get bead...

Watched a couple of the videos, pretty cool, I would think those rock climbs would pucker you up. How do you think a duece or 5ton would do? I would want to build some extensive roll bars befroe a try. I think you probably need good weight to HP/Torque ratios to keep control, maybe someday I'll...

Dixie Horn is on the way. Wish they made one in 24volts, but we'll figure it out.[thumbzup]

My original thought was to build fenders wide so we could walk on them. Then we set the 101 bed on it looked cool being only as wide as the cab. We still used the diamond plate pieces on top of the tank so it's still easy to climb in the bed. We also were goig to put the running lights on the...

We have put about 150 miles on locally with no problem. Not sure what the DOT marker lighting spacing is but we do have 3 yellow marker lights and 1 red marker light, one yellow one is at the front of the bed, the other two are mounted inside the fender well as is the red one, probaly not DOT...

I like the seats, Like I posted ealier thay look to low but to sit in them is not bad. I could not get my leg up high enough to get the brake or the clutch with the stock seats, I think they were designed for someone 5'8" and 160#s. The space between the peddles and the steering wheel is still...

No jumping, we have had it out to the Rio Puerco West of town, there are a few hills, it does OK but we needed to air down and didn't take the time. I don't think my pocket book can afford to jump these trucks, but they work good at low speeds[thumbzup]

With fuel prices what they are we won't be driving our trucks far from Elephant Butte, Thanks though, we should try and hook up some time, if I'm up that way maybe I'll look you up.

The rear sliding window is stock, The truck is relitively quite compared to the duece. We used rollon bedliner (I think Hercules) from the local auto store, We used it on the bed, the fenders, side steps and the top of the bumper. We used the same stuff on our duece and it is great, tuff and...

I was told they made some without the shoulder, We took our time to make sure they all seated 100%, but I'm sure you are correct and it is a weak point, we will probably need to address this issue soon.