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Some more progress over the last year or so Espar coolant heater install works like a champ, heats the back and will keep the engine at 175 when its 5 degrees out! got some custom switches made and installed a cheap cupholder (one of the most important upgrades) Lots of soundproofing! Fresh...

Haven't had to change the flasher yet, but I still have regular bulbs up front and in the dash. I'm sure I will need electronic flasher when I get around to changing the other bulbs.

More updates LEDs all the way!! Built theses taillight housings and found some red LED markers that matched close. Also added super bright rear floods and replaced the factory side lights with low profile awning LEDs. Eventually I want to switch everything else over to LEDs, but my truck fund...

The whole mess is crammed inside this bench. Heat blows out square hole near bottom (kind of covered up by my snowmobile ski in this pic.)

My espar coolant heater install still need to tidy a few things up but its in and working

Yes I just got my diesel fired coolant heater installed and currently building a hitch. I will try to get some pics up soon.

fairing/storage project To answer your question Recovry4x4 the storage is accessed from inside the box where the a/c used to be. Fabbed everything painted white/dark green from scratch using mostly 16 ga and 1/8 steel. Wish there was pics berfore I painted everything, but was in a big hurry...

Makes perfect sense, truck is veeery slow to get moving now with 3.73.

Sounds like the 3.73 swap doesn't gain you mpg only mph! Must be these are heavy trucks for a stock 6.2? I still should be getting better though especially with the fairing, The best I've seen is 12-13 mpg driving nice. Unfortunatly I only took 1 trip with it stock so not much to compare it...

I think I saw pics of your set up on here, we have a lot of similar ideas. What kind of mileage are you getting with your 3.73's? I am struggling to get 12mpg with mine 235/85/16 cooper at/3 averaging 55-60 mph Seems like it should be better.

Not sure the exact name for it fairing, roof cap, air foil????? Anyway it came off a 1977 Dodge M886 ambulance I found 2 miles from my house right after I got my 1010! The 886 was pretty rusty so I felt comfortable dismembering it for parts. I had to fabricate the base of the cap because the...

Hello all, I happy to finally join the forum! I have been very busy working on my truck, but now that the daylight hours are short and wrenching outside is a struggle I thought I would post some info and pics of my in-progress M1010 build. Not 100% sure where I am headed with it yet. It...