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I don't have any reference for an A1R bumper, but I recently had to take mine off my A0, and it was pretty heavy.

I take it there was a design change along the way, huh? Or was this a difference between the 2.5 and 5 ton trucks? My winch setup came from a 5 ton.

Wait. I cannot tell if you are joking or not. I'm pretty sure I could park a Jeep on that bumper without reinforcement. It's certainly stronger looking than the body where the existing step is mounted.

Well I do have a 4-hole pattern right where I think this should go.... I might have to lop off this three hole flange and fabricate a 4-hole to match the existing frame holes. Not sure if that's easier than drilling three new holes in the heat treated frame or not..... Maybe an adapter plate?

So. I was missing the front guide roller, but I have it now. That means that the one I've been looking at must be the rear one. It has three mounting holes. I do not have matching holes anywhere near where I think it should go. For others who have done this before, did you have to drill new...

Revisited this last night a bit. I noticed with the cab tilted up, that there is a pretty sizable flat spot on the backside of the bumper that could be used to mount something. If a step were mounted there, it would not move when the cab was raised. I think that might make designing something a...

Ooh Shiny.

Awesome, Thanks for that. I'll be working on this soon.

I like that a lot. Did you custom build that? I'm looking for options for a tiny bathroom for my project, only I lack much in the way of actual carpentry skills. Hoping to find something easy to customize or that I can just drop right in.

Made a big push yesterday to make progress on this winch install. That PTO is a pain. I made it a bit easier by leveraging my crane. I ran the winch line down from the top and used it to take most of the weight of the PTO and pump sections. I ended up removing the solenoid, and pump to make it...

While keeping it simple has definite merit, manually dragging the thing in and out each time and finding a place to store it is complicated. every.time. I'm all for making a complicated investment so that it's simple in the longer term. But, this is basically what I'm doing now in the shop to...

The dump body and van door lights would seem to be mutually exclusive, interesting. With that much weirdness, I'd suspect a chewed harness or a bad ground, but I don't have an A1 so I'm not much help. I hope you get it sorted.

I just happened to have the cab bushing on the passenger side out this week to facilitate swapping in a winch version of the cab mount. Both the upper and lower busing were in pretty good shape, at least visually. I'll make a point to check out the drivers side when I get a chance. I do have a...

Thinking about those pneumatic actuators... My thought was if it's designed for gravity (or maybe a spring) to lower the step, then when the truck had no air, the steps would lower, allowing you to get in to start it. With the hundred or so other projects I have in my head, this will likely...

Yeah. I'm just hoping to get more like steps and less like a ladder....

What if you took this design and added a pneumatic actuator to flip the step up and down or just in the up direction, letting gravity do the "down"?

I was kind of hoping someone already did some engineering to get more of a step than a ladder. Wondering if I can modify a set of RV powered steps to extend with the door opening? Mounted where the storage/washer compartments are? Moving the washer bottle shouldn't be hard at all. Depending on...

I've had the cab tilted up for a few days trying to figure out how to get this PTO installed for the winch setup, and I noticed that one of the cable sections on my step/ladder/whatever to get into the cab is starting to show some broken cable strands. Which got me thinking about replacement...

Wow, that's close. Seems to me that if the cable is taught against that outboard roller, it'll be scuffing the lift cylinder... maybe not. Thanks for the pics @Lostchain

I'm not seeing a standoff bracket in the pic. If there is... A) This is the first I'm hearing of it. B) I don't have it. Unless you're talking about the little pulley on a stick that helps route the cable, in which case I do not see how that will help. I think the lift mechanism needs moved...