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I am new and working my way around this site. I have a 5 ton and was wondering if anyone has completely removed the old interior and started anew? This is the new girl.
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Complete interior removal
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Some added inside photos.
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Why would you "strip" and what would replace it with?
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I want to "take it down" to the bare minimum and sound proof and insulate the dash then the floor etc,.. Then I want to replace the dash panels with new ones. New bulbs, lenses, etc.. Passenger seat redone with better material.
Insulate the back of the cab and the roof, fix the air gaps at the windows and so on. Basically, I just want to have the interior quiet as I can with as many of the gaps sealed and some of the water intrusions sealed by the windshield.
Insulate the back of the cab and the roof, fix the air gaps at the windows and so on. Basically, I just want to have the interior quiet as I can with as many of the gaps sealed and some of the water intrusions sealed by the windshield.
You aren't going to keep the sound out with a 250 truck. Doesn't matter what you do.
Quite a few of us have gutted them down to replace the floor. When I reinstalled I used 1inch foam board on the underside of the floor and used the 4x8 horse stall Mat from tractor supply in the cab.
There are firewall and backwall insulation kits out there that were military issue.
The roofs aren't made of crap so you really won't want to add anything to it.
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The simple allure of a tactical truck is lost on some...
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Thank you for the response and the photos! Looks like I will have to put some serious thought into sound suppression elsewhere or another way.
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I still want "that look" just quieter!
Better to try to insulate the firewall in the engine bay with foam board and spray foam. Remove the dog house and do it. You can do the dual fuel line mod while you are in there.
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Earplugs are a lot less work...
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Have you done them?
There isn't much I haven't done to a 5 ton in the way of modifications, towed, or driven it to.
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Simp has forgotten more than we'll ever know about big tacticals.
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Literally 100s of thousands of miles in a m923
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Ha you are still missing South America 
The Darien gap will swallow anything I've got so that negates that trekHa you are still missing South America
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I saw something recently on CBS talking about that passageway. Last year 250,000 people crossed the Darién Gap – twenty times more than just a few years ago.
Now if you could get a few thousand folks behind your trailer pushing, maybe you could make it through there. If you didn't get hijacked...
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That truck looks pretty darn nice! Even has the crane on the back which I don't see very often.
I wouldn't change much, maybe replace the old weatherstripping with new and fill some gaps to cut down on some drafts. That's the thing with these trucks, they will be hot or cold, the rain will seep in, and it's usually loud, nature of the beast so to speak. As far as the seats go, that looks like vinyl or some type of fake leather material. A huge bonus on that is the ease of cleaning. Might not be a bad idea to get some hd canvas from a hobby store and make your own seat covers. At least covers can be removed and thrown into the washer if they get dirty, the seats can be wiped off.
That's just my two cents, but wanting to upgrade and personalize your own truck is understandable. Just be sure the time and money spent is worth the potential outcome.
I wouldn't change much, maybe replace the old weatherstripping with new and fill some gaps to cut down on some drafts. That's the thing with these trucks, they will be hot or cold, the rain will seep in, and it's usually loud, nature of the beast so to speak. As far as the seats go, that looks like vinyl or some type of fake leather material. A huge bonus on that is the ease of cleaning. Might not be a bad idea to get some hd canvas from a hobby store and make your own seat covers. At least covers can be removed and thrown into the washer if they get dirty, the seats can be wiped off.
That's just my two cents, but wanting to upgrade and personalize your own truck is understandable. Just be sure the time and money spent is worth the potential outcome.
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Any mods I've ever done to tacticals was done such that it puzzled and confused the 'experts' as to it's being factory and was something they had never seen.
Many times I've heard "I drove one just like this"...
Many times I've heard "I drove one just like this"...