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LOL, you should know! Hahahaha!! rofl

Very soon, got the passenger side completed and was preparing to do the driver's side when my alternator burned up right after the Veteran's Day Parade.... :mad:

The 4 stock batteries...they are still holding up just fine.

I should have just bitten the bullet and paid the freight shipping fee! Once I got the two toolboxes welded together, I realized just how bulky & heavy the relocation boxes really are!! I hope yours found a new home after all...thanks again for your help & patience!

Thank you! If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't...it was about 2 months' worth of work, and in the end it would have been easier to have mounted a pair of Group 31 batteries inside the stock passenger-side toolbox, relocate the wiring, and call it a day! But by the time I realized...

Now to the not-so-fun part: installing the batteries with their plastic battery box holders. On the top box, where I planned on using the plastic M939-series battery holder, I had to weld in some risers for the box to ride on. The handles were mounted too low on the box to rest level inside...

I removed the stock slave cable setup from the truck's cab, and figured that by removing the inner reinforcement mounting section, I could make a new mount on the relocation box much easier. However, by this time it was apparent that as narrow as the width is inside the relocation box, I had to...

Time to mount up the new box in place and start installing batteries! I had to dismount & remount the new box several times as it was necessary to add and/or modify existing work, and it was simpler to remove the box to do so. I used my hand truck to move it around, much easier than trying to...

Once all the inter-box openings were set, I welded the two boxes together and carefully welded the door halves to one another (simple butt welds, I didn't want to add any fishplate reinforcements). On the door, once welding was complete I ground everything as smooth as I could, sanded the heck...

Now back to the toolbox modifications. After lots of mocking up, cutting & trimming, and lots of measurements, I was ready to weld the two toolboxes together. First, I used a hole saw to make some openings for battery cables to pass through (without having to exit one box, subject to the...

Support bracket modification time. After removing the forward reinforcement bracket (the one closest to front tire), I decided to use some more 1/4" flat stock that I had on hand and simply drop the bracket's mounting area by the same amount I had done with with the frame mounts: 7-3/4 inches...

Time to modify frame brackets! I measured several times and made some cardboard mockups, after my initial surprise at having to widen the toolbox openings, for the final placement of the battery relocation box and necessary frame bracket modifications. I deduced that I would need to lengthen...

The tan toolbox is the one from my truck; the CARC paint is super-thick on everything!! The woodland toolbox is the one Mik sourced for me & shipped...it is gorgeous, with only slight rust on the inside bottom! It was far nicer than the toolbox on my truck. Feel free to flame away on my...

After installing a driver's side air-ride seat in my M931A2, my wife refused to ride in it any more until I installed the passenger-side air ride seat...which meant relocating the batteries out of the cab. I couldn't manage to find a NOS battery relocation kit nor box for a price I could afford...