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After a LONG morning... Starting re-assembly: Reassembled: Back home and looking only slightly different at this point: Super stoked with the results though and everything went back together without a hitch. With the CTIS unplugged, the truck ran perfectly all the way home, never missing...

My insurance is through Progressive, as a commercial vehicle for private use. It is extremely affordable, but for the chassis only. The agent said to give him a call back when I have something built up and he can insure it as an accessory, with the same type of policy they use for adding...

I will weigh it when get it back. The chassis was right at 17k when I started, so I'll have a good yardstick (plus or minus half a tank of gas) as to what it weighs. I am very curious to know too.

PAINT!!!!! Looking at this being done in just ~2 days, I am quite content to have outsourced it. I can't imagine how long it'd have taken me to get this done. Looking forward to Mon morning!

There is SO much truth to that statement. I feel as if I put in a month's worth of effort in the last 5 days and the visual change was virtually zero. Thanks Mullaney, that's the hope. It's a little strange that I don't see more people building them this way. I didn't find it all that...

Not yet, still working through it.

A few pics from Weds... The drive down: Prepping for disassembly: Disassembled: Heading back to pick it up on Mon morning. REALLY looking forward to that!

Forgot to mention the tires were all holding air. They were still robustly inflated when I got back down there today.

Not quite sure what your question is NDT. I will look at the CTIS component behind the pass kick plate to see if there is something mechanical wrong with it. Someone on the FB group suggested that, along with a servicing of the dryer.

Ronmar - I didn't note this when I was down there but it was in HWY mode and I think the indicator was flashing (just that one). Maybe the HWY and RUN FLAT. I am forgetting now. It was doing something though, not just all dark. With the truck functional enough to get home, I called it a day...

Starting to scour TM's but if anyone can point me to the correct one, I would appreciate it.

On site. Turned on ignition. Still cycling, 2x/sec or so. Unplugged CTIS controller, all good. Does that mean my controller just took a dump?

Thanks gents. Packing up now to head down to troubleshoot.

Should also say that someone went out and tried the ignition this morning and the solenoid is still clicking after everything cooling down overnight.

Need some help from the forum's collective knowledge.... Took my truck ~100 miles yesterday to Eugene to have the habitat structure blasted and painted. Drive down was hot with a bit of traffic but went smoothly. The fan cycled a bit more than expected but ran everything ran fine despite my...

Going instead with epoxy instead of powder coat and I even have it scheduled with a vendor for blasting and painting- Sept 8 delivery and disassembly on site, pick up over the weekend. It will be a lot of work between now and then but it's a huge milestone. When it comes back, the shelling...

Thanks Chris. It's been an incredibly fun and rewarding process so far. I have truly enjoyed it. That said, I can't wait to get it camp-able and go use it! Answers: 1 - The first set of rails serves as an adapter between the OEM 1088 chassis and whatever I was building, and also as the lower...

Great looking set up and glad to hear it's your ideal rig. I also had a Bigfoot (10.5', similar vintage) and loved it, but... It didn't have the storage I wanted. Even with bags, it was pushing the capacity of my diesel F350 dually. Unfortunately, the camper didn't stand up to the roads I...

Generic units are available, search for 44mm x 22mm switches. I have a post in my build thread on what I found: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/m1088-camper-conversion.193622/page-4#post-2308321

Is that alu or stainless?