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Agreed. There are plenty of examples of externally heated water and battery compartments, though. It's also quite subjective to operational environment. As I said, my first choice is internal but down here I could leave both water and batteries external and never miss a night on the Island...

My onboard gas water heater and electric heating elements disagree...

Yeah, it froze down here. Once. :) But I spend the vast majority of my time in places that don't ever freeze. And if it's going to freeze in some place, I need to be driving to another place. ;) I do actually still snow ski and was planning to take the truck up to CO for a few winters, but...

I'm not concerned about the tank flexing and breaking. I'm concerned that adding the extra 500lbs to one side of the hab (which sits on capture springs). The capture springs are calculated for a specific cargo weight and I'm somewhat over what would be in the standard M1079 shopvan. It's...

Mine are the 50 gal water tank and the battery bank. I have space allocated under the bed for the water tank but for reasons that you mention, I find it less than ideal. My batteries are either going aft above one of the fixed mounting point s (or they could still end up in a box external to...

Oh, people have done it. People do a lot of things with these trucks. Like reduce the departure angle and then go try to tear the hab off using terrain for grins. But it will fit up top. It will also fit bolted to either side, bolted to the front, slung underneath the transfer case. or...

I'd leave the spare at home long before I'd add that much weight over the cab. I do intend to have some stowage above the cab, but nothing my crippled old ass can't carry up a ladder with one hand. I don't even like the builds where people put those giant boxes full of crap up top that takes...

/nods