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PM sent re: ToughBooks, glad I could refer Ken+Dandos, they are good people.

So after getting jerked around by a seller here in California for a month and missing two other local trucks, I've put my money where my mouth is and bought Math1960's M1009. Now working on getting it shipped out here. I'm starting a new thread on this truck.

That's not being tough for her - when she starts growling and goes for the bat, then that's when she's being tough. I was always a sucker for a Redhead. [thumbzup]

Moved to new post to put up the picture: I think I already have enough Panasonic computer gear to cover all of my projects and then some: What you're looking at is 14x CF-30's, two spare CF-30 LCD heads, 8x CF-19's, and a 12" and 10" vehicle dock LCD monitors, and one vehicle dock keyboard...

Thanks and hello to NC! Gorgeous country out there [thumbzup] I am subscribed to DGS Auction Listings in California, and I peruse them frequently. More important for me is to watch grant listings for the state agencies, typically if you see a grant or budget item to refresh hardware, older...

I believe so, it was my original idea when the family started growing - but I'm still going to finish this truck too and use it as my daily once I'm done. Long term, I'm going to need the full pickup bed at 1+ ton payload. Blazer won't cut it for that, and an M101A2 trailer will only get me to...

If I thought I could make it another week or two on the Toyota, I'd gamble. I'll judge at the last minute based on viewed condition, but I'm fully prepared to plop down asking $$.

From my understanding, I'll be taking a look at a local M1009 tomorrow that is in nearly immaculate shape, as temporary wheels. The owner is asking $2K more that I'd like to pay, but by the looks of it the truck truck may just be worth it... Follow up tomorrow.

It's a '93, my dad was the second owner starting in 1996 with 80k on the dial. I bought it from him in 1998 (5 years old at that point) with at 96K (only used for a 15-mile weekday commute, limited extra stuff). So I put on 361,000 and change in 17 years, about an average of 21,235/year - peak...

Well life is happening, and I'm now concerned that the 457K Toyota will not pass the emissions check in October without a hefty investment in the engine/exhaust. I blew through another radiator inside of three months, gotta replace the EGR system, Catalytic converter, muffler, engine computer...

I'm pretty sure we discussed this before (in the FOBIC thread) LEDs do generate heat, just not as much as incandescent/halogen/HID sources - it's more efficient at its job (Lumens/Watt), so more light leaves in the visible spectrum, and much less is generated as IR radiation (realize that an...

A quick step back the the LED lighting for this truck... I finally found a video someone did which shows the 500Watt LEDs I'm using: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pi-LKf0hXI Skip to 6-minutes to see the demo outdoors - he does a lot of "spinning his wheels" while talking earlier. Also at...

Yeah, I've heard these can be pulled back from the brink with marvel mystery oil or something since it's mostly hard cast metal, I'm hoping the oil coated the gears and case mostly and only the cheaply replaceable parts have been converted to oxide - if I have to replace the shafts, that's not a...

I found a bit of a disaster today. I swung by the storage lot and noticed that my transfer case box had been knocked over, apparently it happened a while ago, the transfer case fell out of its box and was "transmission opening up," so the last storm did a great job filling it up with water...

I've been bagging parts from the engine tear down in preparation to move it to the central valley for rebuilding. In the mean time I picked up 8x CF-19 ToughBooks for the last of the CarPuters (only plan to use 5, have 10 to pick from) - they are a little smaller than the CF-30's I'm using in...

This project is not dead, just haven't been talking about it. After getting the engine torn down, I was looking to move it to the local shop I had talked to in order to get the block checked out and any work done on it which was required. Shock of shocks... in the 6 months since I had last...

My name is Tim, I have a problem... I'm addicted to ToughBooks (more evidence here :shock:). I recently picked up 5 docking stations for CF-19Mk3, convertible ToughBooks, and a pair of CF-19Mk3's. Each seat is getting its own... GamberJohnson makes the military mount for this model, and...

So... one of the reasons I'm spending a lot of time making sure everything is "right" on my daily driver's is that I put a fair amount of miles on my vehicles. Things need to last for a long time, which is why I'm putting in an engine that's good for 500K-miles between rebuilds, a transmission...

Second half of today, almost have it down to components... Wife came back home refreshed, took the oldest kid and Grandpa came back and took the youngest. I pulled the oil pump and Injector Pump, had to go borrow a gear puller from Autozone: Pulled the old Dodge RAM cross-member: Pulled...

Working on the engine some more today, first part was draining the oil (black!!) and removing the filter: Then I pulled the gear train cover: This is one of the things that destroys early (pre-'97.5) Cummins 5.9L 6BT engines and is one of the big reasons I decided to tear to engine down to...