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That's not bad at all for 12v! Could leave the lights on and not have a dead battery the next morning, with the batteries these trucks have. You got all 4 batteries, or 2, or just 2 8Ds? In Fairbanks, AK winters I'll definitely need all 4 batteries, 2 won't cut it. I may put a solar...

I'm pretty sure it didn't. Are M52s more common?

Good point, knowing LED technology...I'll probably stick with the cab and maybe the bed. Having a light in the cab must be a wonderful upgrade, any idea on current draw?

I was thinking LED tape light myself. Super versatile stuff. I'd like to keep mine mostly stock appearance wise but the in-cab lighting is a great idea, as is for the bed. (Gotta get bows and a cargo cover first). Although, at first I may be living in the bed, in something more...

Yeah, I'm getting one with the 855 Cummins, thirsty beast but I don't care...small price to keep one of these on the road.

Looks great! I like the in-cab lighting idea, I'd consider doing that. Yours a daily driver, judging by the lighting?

This is the one bad picture I have of it, gotta look closely.

TwistedOaks, someone on the Steel Soldiers Facebook group told me a similar story, they met a guy who probably built his very truck he has, was an interesting conversation.

Edit/update: I also looked on Google Streetview, which around my area hasn't been updated since July, 2011 (and is thus actually helpful for seeing what usto be in a given place 6 years ago or even 10 years ago if I scale it back to 2007) and it wasn't there yet. So it either drove there or...

Very nice! When I get mine, I, too, intend on doing this kind of thing. Love making new MV enthusiasts, I've managed to get people hooked before, telling them about Deuces and 5 tons.

Long story... So last fall while walking/jogging around exploring some unpaved dead-end back roads outside Fairbanks (more like Ester) I spotted a M275 (or maybe it's an M48) sitting in a yard full of old semi's, trailers, dead pickups, and the like. I thought "That'd be an interesting one to...

Very nice! Keep us posted!

Interesting! Mine wouldn't be "commercial" per se, just frankly a daily driver and also off road/mud toy, but CA thinks of just about everything triple-axle as commercial, even a Deuce!

Curious, on a related note, 74M35A2, would your soon to be new setup pass the California emissions laws? As someone who is moving back there eventually, hopefully an M939 in tow, I'd like to repower to get around the bans.

Great idea, brilliant! Cape Coastie, I hope you don't mind if I plagarize this when I get my M923.

Definitely, definitely, definitely, DO NOT scrap it. 928's are pretty darn rare, there were only about 500 of the 927/928 ever made as I understand it and many have been chopped up into other things. IF you decide you're scrapping, I'm on the hunt for a 928. Running or non-running. Would...

Keeping the M929?

Very nice! I, too, am planning on doing something like this but with an M927 or M928 5 ton.

Uhg. That's really unfortunate. Have you considered, crazy as it sounds, cameras?

You sound kinda like me; while I have no interest in bikes (likely because a loved one was killed in a motorcyle accident, though through no fault of his own; someone ran him off the road) I basically intend to daily drive the one I'm getting.