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Driving my 2003 almost 28,000 lb overland vehicle I can honestly say I absolutely love the exhaust brake. Especially going down hill.

Jack up all the wheels on jack stands and engage different modes and see what happens.

Just hope it helps the next person!

Using the same vent cap this is what I decided to do. Because there is only 2” between the transmission housing and the battery surge protection box I decided to put the 90 degree fitting on it to prevent kinking the hose causing a restriction. Doing that made it much more difficult. If there...

So I dug into it. Accessing the vent is very difficult as it’s located directly under the battery surge protector/ polarity protector, removing that might make it easier. A relatively slim 14mm wrench will fit under the cap to loosen it up, unscrewing it the rest of the way is tedious. It has a...

Wanting to raise the transmission vent 1-2 feet. Anyone know what the tread is on the vent and has anyone done this? How high did you go, what size hose did you use, any negative side effects?

Will do! Looking forward to all the available BLM Land, eastern United States is very difficult for Overlanding / Boondocking.

Definitely going to come visit you. PM me your phone number so I can save you in my contacts.

Thank you, I may take you up on that! We are heading west from Florida after the new year and plan to visit every state’s highest point and all the national parks. We are expecting to spend about 2 years non stop exploring western US and Alaska. I’m always looking for some where we can safely...

It’s sad, we’ve seen it all traveling eastern US for 12 months. We try to find the beauty in everything everywhere we go. Also the truck attacks lots of attention so we also try listening and learning from the locals. There is still lots of good people in the world.

It all about application in my opinion. When I did the animated robotics, for example the most complicated one I built had 52 different pneumatic actuators in a human form. We mostly used pneumatic because they would run the characters for years with little maintenance and if you had a leak it...

The remote is for when we are in a sketchy area and we want to put the stairs up without revealing where the external switch is located. For me it’s a security thing. Also with WiFi cameras on all 4 sides and with starlink I get notifications of people. Like when you park near downtown...

Thanks, I have pneumatic actuators that deploy the solar panels. It was a space issue. It’s all about enjoy the challenge.

Thanks, it can actually lift me up standing on the bottom step. I wanted to have the ability to have the steps up at night and still open the door which spawned the idea of the porch. We can control it from multiple locations inside outside and with a remote control.

Back to anything can be done. I designed and built a mechanism that pivots my entry stairs approximately 140 degrees using a single actuator. I love a good challenge.

My specialty is designing and making things that move, I’ve worked in animated robotics to agriculture machines. Basically I love making things that don’t exist one offs then moving to the next project.

Looking at some other ones. I looks like the problem is going to be modifying for the extra overall length. For a 24” stroke you have to add about 10” for an overall length of 34”.

I guess I’ve never looked for an actuator with that capacity. They are out there this one can get up to 5,600 lbs very impressive! Definitely got me thinking.

This is a great thread! Just saying….

Agree, but anything is possible with time and money.