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The stock guards are formed in a "U" shape, and both points of the "U" contact the rim. It's completely supported, and so a rock hitting anywhere has to crush the "U". So it's an arch, and is pretty strong. With a flat metal plate that is only supported at the standoffs, you have a bridge...

You're right. The AH rating stays the same, but the "two gas tanks" analogy is still meaningful. In series you now have 2x the voltage, you'll be drawing 1/2 the amps for a given work (Watts), and thus run 2x as long with two batteries. So it is a capacity improvement, and still takes 2x as...

The CCA/charge current only adds in parallel, but the AH capacity adds both in series and in parallel. So adding 4 batteries @120AH/each equals 480AH. (The AH capacity is basically "how big of an energy bucket" they are. So adding more "buckets" literally adds more energy volume to drain...

They have sales and stuff. I think I got mine <$300, like 4-5 years ago. I assume it pays for itself over time, by maintaining the batteries better and prolonging replacement. I don't know how old the batteries in the truck were when I got it (or how many times soldiers had mistreated them...

If one is bad, all kinds of goofy stuff can happen. The NOCO Gen4 charger that I have actually hooks to each of the 4 batteries individually. It checks them, desulfates them, charges and maintains them, at 40A max. It's also fully submersible. They just came out with a newer version, too...

Wind chill temp doesn't matter, just the actual temp. Wind chill temp means that the wind is blowing heat away as fast as if it were that temperature, but you still will not actually drop below the real outside temp under any circumstances. Two batteries is probably ok for most people. The 4...

I think that may be the max from either leg at once, not the combined.

That's not as good of an idea in this case, where it would only supported by the standoffs. On rockcrawlers, the ring sits against the rim, and the rim supports it. You would have to make these really thick to take the abuse from rocks.

I think the subtlety not coming across is that none of this stuff ever works at 100% capacity. So I was using the simple numbers, and came out with 4 hours, but the reality is that you may only be getting 1/2 that AT PEAK, because the alternator is old and not delivering it's 100%, the...

That would be an interesting experiment. You may run into unexpected issues, like freezing up the tank or lines, because the CO2 is liquid in the tank and needs to boil off into gas as you use it. I generally try to plan for workarounds that can be used repeatedly/indefinitely, even if very...

The fact that the batteries are AGM is not what was being debated. AGM are always better batteries than conventional flooded lead-acid. It was the size that was being problematic. Each 6TL is 100 Amp-Hours (AH), and so with four you have a total of 400 AH. Even at 100% efficient, (which it...

I mostly disagree. People have been wheelin' unreliable junk into the backcountry for decades, and we don't see a big collection of vehicles abandoned out there because something broke. Yes, LMTVs are bigger and heavier, so you're not going to be towed out by a Jeep CJ. You can make some...

Why only 3 bolts? Man, that just flares up my OCD. It makes them look so goofy.

Fusion and Onshape are pretty simplistic if you're used to using SolidWorks or Inventor. Fusion is meant to be a little more technical CAD, and has built in CAM. Onshape is meant to be more like a CAD whiteboard, where you quickly whip up a model of an idea, and are left with something better...

It's all the tug-of-war between Cost, Quality, and Time. If you have the time, you can scrounge a lot. Most people are going to have to pay a lot to get what they want, without taking a decade to gather everything up. You just need to be realistic about what you're going to be able to put...

I keep my truck plugged into a NOCO Gen4 charger, when not in use.

Well, this is true, but also a completely misleading statement the way it's being phrased. The military specifications for stuff are usually quite extreme, so typically civilians stuff is not even close. There is a reason the mil-spec version of things costs several times more. The flip side...

While not bad advice itself, it seems like that's the least of the problems considering almost nobody makes it past the bigger obstacle of years of building up the truck and $100k investment.

An "M1083 with a crane" is an M1084. https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m1084.htm Usually, the more useful the truck is to business-related work, the more they sell for. So I would expect an M1084 to sell for noticeably more than an M1083, because a tree business could use it to load trees...

For those looking, it's in TM 9-2320-365-20-1, e14. TACHOMETER DOES NOT OPERATE OR IS INACCURATE, page 2-348 (p516).