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How badly tail-down does the truck sit with no air in the air springs? At 1200 lbs you're 200 lbs over the theoretical max loading for a 1/2ton truck. Not ideal, but preliminarily I'd call it driveable pending more info. I would not leave the other side inflated at any pressure for the drive...

If you opt for the steel NATO style fuel cans you absolutely, positively want this nozzle for them: https://swissarmyvehicles.com/surplus/51/SAV4220/army-spout-utility-jerry-can-swiss-army They're expensive and you need to fabricate an unleaded filler adapter (I made mine from copper tube & a...

You are likely the trail-blazer on those. I'd suggest starting at full soft and incrementally keep adding damping until the truck rides and drives like you want it to. Don't be afraid to go too far. If you do, just back up to the previous setting.

Abolish all TLA's. boy did I get a dirty look from my boss when I said that! FLA can also be a Flooded Lead-Acid battery. AGM - Absorbed Glass Mat battery VSR - Voltage Sensing Relay ACR - Automatic Charge Relay Different Mfg names for essentially the same function.

We're careful, but not too picky about where we fill the camper's tank because we keep a 5 gal container of drinking water inside. That gets refilled from 2.5 gal store bought containers.

Ram, When I lived in Powell Butte Brasada didn't exist. It was Shumway Ranch, the largest ranch in the area. Jim Shumway told of when he was a boy being sent out on a big, roughly circular cattle drive that lasted all summer and never left land they either owned or leased from the gov't.

I think the fires are having a far reaching effect. I was in Susanville the morning of Friday the 10th and there were deer roaming everywhere in town. One poor 2 pt even had someone's laundry line wrapped up in his antlers. It was amusing and pitiful at the same time. Of course, he was gone by...

Lookin for love in all the wrong places?

We humans who belong to animals know this day is coming, but we convince ourselves differently. Been in your place several times. It never gets any easier. Sorry for your loss.

Must have been heavy boots. One of my favorite sections of 395 and not because I could play at being Mario Andretti. Old co-worker had a similar story, only it was a Ruger Super Blackhawk on a rear step bumper. He never would tell where so that I could go looking for it. :) I've lost small...

To do it correctly the 37° flare that I use requires a flaring tool that forms that angle. In copper you *may* get away with using the much more common 45° flaring tool if your tube nuts, tube sleeves, and fittings are all steel. The first time that you tighten the tube nut it will sort-of...

Any on the page that I linked will work. The DOT semi-flexible is probably the best for no leaks, but will be some pain to install. I have used the regular nylon and the polyurethane (PU) tubing. Each has their +'s and -'s and I can't really suggest one over the other without some idea of the...

I'd recommend crossing over to I-15 from Cathedral Gorge up to Cedar City, then East on UT14 to Cedar Breaks NM. Follow UT14 to the 89, turn North on it up to UT12 and take that all of the way to Escalante. We found Hole in the Rock to be worth all ~120 miles of wash-board, but I tend to opt...

In the past 10 ga in the SAE connectors was a rare find, and was usually cheap wire. 12 ga was the common upper limit. Haven't looked in years so that may have improved. 10 ga. is the largest that the MC4's actual terminals are made to fit, but the MC4's aren't designed to be frequent...

If re-wiring is determined to be the path forward you may be able to use the existing wire to pull the new, bigger wire thru whatever contortionist path was used. However, I also think that upping the voltage with the panels in series is the better idea. Just generally a more efficient way to...

I would expect that the Benchmark atlas would still be of value to have along, but I would suggest looking into one of the navigation applications that shows land ownership as well. I should think that such a program would be of particular use in TX given how little public land there is in that...

As to what AGM's we're using, I'd have to look. I'm sure that they're nothing special as I wasn't willing to put a bunch of money into batteries for a camper that I wasn't sure if we'd have it much longer. Turned out that the replacement camper also used 2GC's and had a fairly new pair of wet...

Or, dare I say it, look into a Lithium chemistry battery option.

I've evolved a Code of Conduct over the years. No new mods or changes before a big trip w/o taking a shake-down trip between the mod or change and the big trip. I like to think that I'm getting smarter as I age. Let me have my delusions, OK? Of course, SWMBO has Executive veto power over that...

In the Blanc-Oh I now carry a good kinetic strap ( for use with friends & tricky recoveries) and an inexpensive kinetic strap (for use with everyone else). Given one of the tasks set for that truck I expect the inexpensive strap to get abused and to also be needed quickly. It now lives in an...

A Li-anything conversion was a very new thing when we last needed batteries, so we have a pair of AGM 2GC's. A lot of weight for the capacity, but such batteries are built for this sort of use where few 12V batteries are. Even those claiming to be "deep cycle". The next batteries we buy will be...

Or if you can have a flame outside (!) a Kelly Kettle. Close to the batteries to reduce line losses on the low (battery) voltage side.

20+ years ago I made my own Staun type using a fixed pressure pop-off valve from McMaster-Carr and a clip-on air chuck. The pop-off valve is rated for 20 psi and it consistently stops at 19 psi. That worked well for the X-cab yota, but it's way too low for the CTD. I rarely drop the CTD below 40...

Glad that I can pass along what I've learned thus far. There are other sources, obviously, these are just where I've gotten to in my own learning curve. One of my very first air systems used an ARB pressure switch. It worked well for the ancient small air horn (JC Whitney sourced in the late...

Locally I have a couple truck parts retailers that I can visit for most of these parts, but if mail ordering them is preferred then these are the places that I've used (except for the air tank as Ryder Fleet went under). Push to Connect DOT Fittings...