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If anyone has the square style, and can give me accurate measurements, I'll see what I can do about those also.

FMTVSales, the maker of the Accela trucks in Montana, seems to be able to get new ones. I think they have a price listed on their website, like $3500.

Thanks, and good to know that your truck was missing them. It sounds like many trucks were originally missing them, which is curious because I don't remember many being broken or missing when I was in the Army. Maybe they just get pulled off before the truck is auctioned because it's a very...

I just want to know if other people have missing / broken door handles like I do. The reason is that if it's not an issue for others, I can get these made as one-offs for (just a made up number) $150. But if I pay to have the necessary jigs/fixtures/tooling made/bought, it might cost me $500...

Yeah, I know a lot of you are frugal, but that wasn't what my post was about. I was merely showing the handles I was making because I don't want easily breakable handles anymore, and I was asking if other people had missing or broken handles too. If a lot of people are missing the handles it's...

16 splines. There is some variation on my measurements between the shafts and handles I have to measure, but I'm getting about Ø0.420" x 0.270" (Ø10.668mm x 6.858mm). Pretty goofy size. I'm not really sure why you're trying to figure out what other handles are available though. I'm not debating...

Yeah, you could do all of those things. I also considered getting one 3D printed on a very high end machine (possibly even metal), and then using it as a master pattern to create molds to cast them out of rigid high-performance polyurethane. The question is how well plastics will hold up...

I just modified my handle 3D model to include the splines (because they were a separate insert for a machined part), and I started the 2 hour 3D print. I'll put it on my passenger door, where the broken window crank is currently the door handle, and see how well it survives for a while.

Yeah, I think he said for the window crank that one off an old VW Bug or something fits. What I'm describing here wouldn't be for people that want the cheapest possible solution, it would be for those that want a better solution. Initially, these are for me, to solve my problem, and I want one...

3D printed ones would be pretty cheap, maybe $20 each. I don't know how long they would hold up, but this prototype one I made from polyethylene sure seems tough. I might install it on my truck just to see how well it survives. I have to order some socket head cap screws for it though. I...

As well as check your drive shafts and u-joints. Please read my troubleshooting guide here in my signature.

My truck is missing the black plastic cover off one interior door handle, and the other one was replaced somewhere along the line with a broken window crank handle. So I decided to 3D model some handles that could be machined from aluminum as inexpensively as possible (still not as cheap as I'd...

Don't the A1's have the door handles that open forward?

No content was edited out. That part of the discussion was about why the engine driven compressors are so much more common, or work so much better. The reason is that the engine is a HUGE 200kW energy supply, so drawing of 10-20kW is barely noticed. With electrical compressors, the available...

They do it with batteries/electricity, but as I said above 1HP = 746W, so the 10,000W the A/C is drawing is nothing compared to the 223,800W (300HP) the motors draw. So they don't really care much.

The rebutal is that vehicle companies have been insulating vehicles in order to reduce road noise. They also do not have the cost issues, because they can engineer an engine-driven A/C system, and the cost is factored in from the start (plus economy of scale). However, if they could get by with...

This has been touched on in a number of other threads. ODOMETER: I did a recent test of my odometer accuracy against my GPS's odometer. This represents a small sample from this test, but I believe it to be consistent with my previous use. I drove 42.9 miles (on the odometer) in one continuous...

You may also be able to add a battery in parallel temporarily, like jump starting a car, to power the ECU while you remove and replace the internal battery.

That's pretty much all wishful thinking, and ignoring the obvious that vehicles routinely come with 20,000-30,000 BTU heating/cooling systems for a reason. There really isn't a need to speculate on how or why that's what it takes, or compare to well insulated houses and fridges, because you can...

The engine mounted compressors have considerably more power available to them than electrically driven units. 1HP = 746W, so an engine mounted compressor stealing several HP (that you'll barely notice) is easily more powerful than a 2kW-running (~2.8HP) electric A/C. It's also far more...