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Don't mount the orbital under the dash. If a pressure hose gets a pin hole in it, the oil could cut right through your clothing and flesh. Very bad and possibly life threatening. Plus even a small leak will make quite a mess in the cab.
Both steps are raised by a 12volt hydraulic pump. It's a pump for a pickup snow plow, the steps are power up gravity down. The muffler doesn't realy help much in the cab, but I think most of the noise in the cab is from the gear train. It isn't to noisy untill you get up to highway speed. I...
The truck is mostly a toy. We have hauled a couple of tractors with it. We do mostly farm repair. The blower in the picture is off of a Walinga grain vac.
We streched my dads cab 11 inches, and it was a simple job. It took us about 3 days, and we are not body men by any means. We haven't finished the hard top yet, but the bottum went quickly. By the way I can drive it easily and I'm 6'8" about 400 lbs with long legs.
The cylinder under the bed is for the rear steering. The picture shows 2 cylinders, but that was over kill so I removed the back one. I didn't want any lines hanging down to get pulled loose. These are the only pics I could find of the cab during construction. After this stage, we cut the back...
I didn't want to hijack the OP thread anymore than I allready have, so I started a new thread.
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce-modification-hot-rodding/59080-bobed-deuce.html#post688838
The cab is an extra long extended cab to provide room for my junk, and so I can drive it.
The boom turns with a hand crank but could be converted to hydraulic.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.