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As for what oil to use, any good quality 15W40 will do. Some people argue against synthetic claiming their stuff leaked after using it, but it has better protection than conventional does, especially for extreme weather. As for filters, this list/ranking is pretty comprehensive...

Transmission is easy, look at the shifter. Will either have a park position or not. Park means 4 speed. Engine you should pull the doghouse and look at the oil pump/tach drive...

the system fails to engaged. If you unplug the cadillac valve then it will lock the clutch in the engaged position.

just lucky. Not 100% sure it will clear if I am not parked straight. I have about 3-4" clearance with everything straight.

it probably will fit, but you have to be very careful of the weight balance. A pickup truck doesn't care quite as much about the weight being a little to far forward or back anywhere near as much as a trailer will.

Not so much that it's bad, there's just no way to keep that many moving parts in the system from leaking. Unless you run the truck/compressor every day or two, you'll come out to the tires resting on the run flats, and then having to wait to drive until everything airs up. Trying to find and...

looks like a crank to me.

I've used the generator at one customer's location, but this is all my personal ready to go stuff. Gen is backup for my house, and the ECU was cheap and works as a load bank for running the gen under load (though I had to disconnect some of the heating coils as it's too much draw for this size...

ECU = Environmental Control Unit. Fancy name for a combination of a heater and an air conditioner. Not a dumb question, if you don't deal with these things then there is no reason to know the acronym, and there are so many acronyms these days that it's almost pointless to just do a broad...

another pic, showing the fenders on, power cable strapped down, and plywood back platform.

Last year I bought a trailer chassis that had been for one of the gen/ECU setups. Didn't have the gen or ECU. It did have a couple small storage boxes and the fuel tank, but I removed those and painted what was left, as well as some clean up of rusting parts and whatnot. I had some wood 2x8s...

I checked the manual, the A2 lower gears (CTIS) have a different part number than the lower gears for the earlier (non CTIS) trucks. I don't know if this is only because the CTIS ones have a higher load rating than the older ones, but I also couldn't find anywhere that said they are...

Nope. Ground is there on appliances as a safety in case the wiring somehow has an issue and puts electricity to the case. Gives the electricity a very easy path to use instead of going through the human body. Not having a ground won't affect operation of an appliance, only how badly you get...

if it's 5kw element, it isn't going to be 120V. Put one hot lead to each terminal (L2 hooked to one side, L3 hooked to the other), that gives you 240V.

No stipulations anywhere I can see on the website about on or off road use only. As for the second part, the contact info for them is on the website. Worst they can really do is tell you "no"

to eliminate the belts as cause of the noise, you can use a spray bottle with some soapy water in it. If you spray and the noise goes away, you know it's the belt. If no change at all, then it's not the belts. quick and easy way to eliminate them as a possible source. Just went through this...

1) If the top is new then there should be no reason to use anything to waterproof it. If it leaks then something is wrong. 2) soapy water on the piece that goes into the front channel can help things slide easier. Also easier to use 2 people to install that portion, but not impossible with one.

Only issue I see with this is you'd have to do it as a 3 phase distribution/breaker panel. Not necessarily a bad thing, but you still have to double check that the selector switch is positioned properly before starting unit and connecting load. That's pretty much the only reason I didn't...

You could also possibly install it lower and at an angle, but to me it looks like if you go with the angled flat upper portion flat against the back wall you lose a lot of floor space on top of the tunnel, and possibly get some vision blocked. Only upside I see is still being able to look out...

in "H" power goes to all wheels, but if for some reason one wheel loses traction, then all the power will try to go through that one wheel, and the truck won't move. The "HL" and "L" modes lock the transfer case so that power will always go half to front half to rear. If one wheel loses...