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Are there cabs available?

Here are a few ideas/suggestions: 1) Have custom wheels made. Really not that difficult or expensive. 2) Call these guys and have them build you custom 10-lug hubs. 3) Someone on here was working on bolt-on 10-lug adapters and shared blueprints.

Nice work. I'm down in the south bay if you ever need anything.

Thanks for sharing. Just picked up a few of these and think we're going to do something like that with at least one of them.

Would it be against the rules to ask where those cabs are now? Just wondering where (what part of the country) they might eventually pop-up. Would like to buy a few.

They are pretty awesome. Will take some pictures of our trucks for you, but probably won't have a chance to post them until sometime next week. The rollcages are quite extensive. They're not retrofitted to the cabs, rather the cabs are built around the structural tubing. To us, yes, they're...

Can't see how using appropriately-sized chains in an emergency-type situation would be unsafe. Like VPed pointed out, they're loading the suspension in the right direction and the springs should absorb all but the most violent shock-loads. Maybe a combination of chains and airbags would be the...

That seems like a pretty good idea. Maybe even more useful on something heavier, like a 5-ton?

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. A bent piece of spring-steel is going to have different spring steel is going to have different spring rates, depending on which way it bends. Not just because of the way it's bent, but the way it's captured and loaded. That's true of individual springs, and...

Ah, first-hand experience. Good point about the tires on/off. Might not get around to building the axle chain-up brackets I designed and posted about earlier in this thread, only because think I'm planning on bobbing that truck now. Maybe for the 5-tons though?

The second part of your post I quoted is correct, and conflicts with the first part of your post. Agree with the second part, but not the first. Most leafsprings are not going to exert the same force in either direction. I understand that it's going to exert a lifting force on the middle axle...

Yeah, that would work if the walking-beam suspension had a solid link between the two axles, but seems to me the leafsprings would allow the middle axle to stay on the ground because there's nothing pulling the middle axle up and leafsprings are made to flex and those leafsprings were designed...

Airbags on the rear axle wouldn't lift the middle axle.

Or you could just apply something like this to your windows.

Here's another option.

No, the distance between the rear axles/wheels/tires can/will change as the suspension cycles. The distance between them will be greatest when the links are flat, and at least theoretically, shortest when both rear axles are at full-droop. Realistically, that's not going to happen very often...

Would love to talk to you about al this in a little more detail tobyS. Don't want to take this thread too far off-topic, but we just bought a few hightop M923A2's, and would like to add hydraulics to them too...

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining. There's probably some information out there somewhere about the transfercase PTO's rated power output, right? Would be good to know so can source appropriately sized components. Would like to make the hydraulic system as powerful/versatile as possible, something...

Why is running a pump off the transfer-case PTO a limiting factor?

Not sure I understand. What's going on here?