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I don't know if the guy was prototyping them in the past or if they were sourced, but I knew that I'd seen those before...

The A1R trucks don't have an air ride/suspended cab. No airbags, just a ridgid 3-point mounts. The rear latch rides on a set of rubber bushings (that are the same as the front cab bushings but uses one extra lower puck). So an A0/A1 truck uses two cab bushing sets forward and air floats the...

Gotta support this. I'm down for three sets/pairs (I have a set onhand for the spare lower). Still going to tinker with casting my own but always good to have a backup plan.

I've as usual, found a civilian part that's a fraction of the cost....

There's a guy supposedly selling these on FB. No info other than it's in every military vic and LMTV group. It's one of those "I'll have to PM you the details" things (which means it's typically shady or embarrassingly over-priced). ;)

On a side note, my rear bushings failed today on the A1R. I do a visual inspection every time the cab is up, but I was driving down the road today and I heard a sort of "clunk". When I got home, I looked around the cab and can see the bushings are pretty much gone (a few chunks of random...

btw: did you see the very end of that clip? His keyless entry is an RFID implant chip in his hand. LOL, even the tech nerd in me is hard pass on dat shizzle https://dangerousthings.com/category/implants/x-series/

I saw that clip. Funny, I have those hatch support springs already for my cabinet build. I looked into the faucet defuser that he uses but that mist would drive me nuts (and I can't see washing dishes with the fine a mist). Still, it does save water I'm sure. As for the pee funnel, I went...

Those little RV pressure regulators are like $20, so a simple and inexpensive add....

I think you mean 80. My research landed at shore 80 for the cab bushing (I don't think Awesomeness mentioned a specific hardness in this thread). We've had this discussion in several threads here. Hokey pucks are 90 so there are very close to what is used in most HD bushings. Agreed. I'm...

Thanks. Yeah, I need three tops and three bottoms (minimum). A gallon of ECON 80 hardness, black UV tint, a can of release, and a gallon of mold 30 runs about $350-400 shipped. That's in line with what I can purchase three sets of crusty old NOS bushings That leaves me with a couple spare...

Gonna take a stab at this in a couple weeks. Ordering in the materials. What do you recommend as a material for the mold? No 3D printer here, but I have a set of OEM cab bushings that I can cast a mold. I've only messed with this sort of thing once for a single piece I needed and I actually...

Seems like old residual gunk? I mean, I'd think that ten miles isn't enough to wear anything enough that it creates a reside. Is this present on both the front (independent) hubs as well as the rear (shared with dif) hubs? I'd do another flush after awhile to see if it's simply residual.

Just the truck. I've only ever had one occasion where I had to get the shovel out as a result of the trailer and that was more my fault for coming to a stop when I knew that I shouldn't have. In my experience, floatation/footprint is far less of an issue with trailers (no steering, no...

Yeah, misting is the tell tale. The kit will resolve it. May as well do the latch rebuild while you're at it (it's even easier). There's a few threads in here that have the kit numbers. Colt has a good video of the whole process. And be sure to shop around (as usual, there are scalpers here...

It's SOP for me to be pulling my M1082 down the beach at 30 mile stretches in axle-deep sand, so I'll take all the cooling I can get. :)

Grats on the truck ! There are two tanks for the cab/tire lift system. One is at the manual pump and one is up behind the cab/spare. Easiest way I have found is to fill from the upper tank and bleed from the manual pump tank. Certainly start there. If it is leaking/misting oil then the...

Yeah, it's that extra weight in the RV build combined with the 11 months a year 90 degree S. Texas heat that I want to add the aux cooler. But like you say, most trucks won't need it unless they are heavy towing.

That's my plan. Or I may go all ghetto red neck and delete the OEM cooler. I have a lot of research to do given mine is a C7 (no telling what the computers will do or think if I add or delete things), but I've seen CAT/Allison powered RVs with aux coolers so the basic idea is out there.

Yeah, it's a cooler. Never made sense to me that all cars with automatic transmissions ran "cooling" lines into the car/truck's radiator to be bathed in boiling coolant. But that's how it works. I'm adding a aux trans-cooler to my rig. It's the same one mounted upright on the M1089 wreckers...