Recent content by GCecchetto

I also have a high pinion rear diff, and I’m pretty sure if you have a 6x, your rear driveshaft is shorter than mine.

That's been my main search platform as well, but no love yet, and so many sellers are just flakes. Is your box fiberglass skinned, and can you post some photos here? Also, can you provide a link to the place selling them in WA? Thanks

There is a thread here on the forum about a 1079 van body CAD model. In that thread, someone linked another thread about a guy that was building out a 1079 body and he posted that the framing members in the box used a strip of wood on between the faces of the framing members and the interior and...

I've been looking for a suitable box to start my habitat for my M1078A1R. Just looked at a 1079 van body, would be easy since it will bolt right on, but it's smaller than I want, isn't very thermally efficient, and they unfortunately apparently use wood as the thermal break material, so that's a...

Interesting, I haven’t experienced that. This was definitely a rotational driveline issue. Felt just like all my other 4x4 vehicles when locked in four wheel drive on full lock turns. Like a fore and aft rocking motion, but with a nasty clunk mixed in. Hard to believe that’s an acceptable...

Okay, thanks for the info, guess I won't worry about it and stay out of Mode as much as I can. Interesting that I didn't feel it at all going up, only back down. I guess it's just another of the semi-sorted design elements of these trucks:-) I really need to read the operators manual as well, I...

Guys, this was a forward and back lurching, just like a 4x4 typically will with the center diff locked when in a full lock turn, which I wouldn't normally worry about. But in this case, there was a significant clunking noise with it that really sounded like binding u-joints. Didn't do it going...

Top and bottom sway bar bushings are new. This was definitely something to do with a rotational drive component, ether in the front knuckles or possibly driveshafts as GD eluded to. I'm guessing you haven't experienced this with your truck off road?

Good to know, thanks.

I haven't had the driveshafts rebuilt yet, but have spoken to a shop about it. Plan do have it done when I get back from vacation and can get back on the list of stuff to do. Next up is the trans flush and convert to Transynd, so I'll pull both driveshafts and get them rebuilt and balanced. I...

I do plan to delete the springs first, but ultimately I will want, and need as the stock shocks will need replacement over time, new shocks. Already have Scheel-Mann seats :-)

I'm going to talk with these folks when I get back from my trip out to Montana and Wyoming. They're basically a go-between with King, but supposedly the guy that specs the shocks knows his stuff relative to HD applications like ours.

Over the weekend I went to look at an M1079 van body for sale that was located on a very remote ranch. The road up to the ranch was tight, steep, loose rocky, rutted, and full of tight switchbacks. To be honest, it was getting close to about as much as I would want to do with my truck offroad...

No parking brake is completely failsafe when total neglect of maintenance has gone on for years. Wheel chalks are easy enough to carry as a back up.

Anyone look at the Bulldog HD1215-0126 yet?