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Not for the faint of heart or thin of wallet.

There was a fella on Expedition Portal (Joaquin Suave, I think)gave sage advice to those who have this dream: Build, in your backyard, a plywood box the same size as your planned habitat. Live out of it for two weeks then review the soundness of your plan.

Yes, will do. Suspension is top of the do-list. So far, I deleted the lower leaf from the rear spring pack as the static load on the rear axle is only 4560 lbs (stock was 6240). That was just to set the ride height. Next step is to remove the front shocks then test to baseline the suspension...

Stopping the bleeding.....over the last 5 years I have put at least 10K into this M1009 and I am done. Am focussing on the LMTV build. I traded the truck to Jack's Gov't Surplus in Tucson, so there it is.

Our friend Neil does well with his LMTV in the snow:

adding to my post #29 :

This old Vista machine is not good for much: my banking app will not even talk to it. However, its a fine place to store 10,000+ pages of TMs.

Out & about testing stuff.

Something to think about so many pounds this and so many pounds that: the winch is not tasked with lifting the truck vertically against gravity. You have seen strongman exhibitions of a man pulling an xx,xxx pound semi with a rope. Ask him to lift the same truck then see a different outcome...

You'd get suicide doors...very uptown :) And rear windshield wipers.

I use rollaround scaffolding from HF. I queue up the tools for the job onto the scaffold, that way I'm not climbing up n down all day.

The TruckTrial rulebook is silent on harness attachment, but yes, the angles are set according to harness manufacturer recommendations. We certainly were not going to attach to the floor like we see some do to get thru tech. There is some more gusseting going on, will update you when its...

Put 2 cabs back-to-back like the '813?

2011 and up MOPAR.

Back to the thread title: LMTV lug nuts. I am conflicted by differing opinions offered by the interweb about thread engagement. Some truckers say one thread protruding past the lugnut. Other drivers say three. The drag race sanctioning body says the length of thread engagement should be equal to...

Those seats are fine, where did you find those? The seats carry the designation GS-1, available on some 2011-up MOPAR performance vehicles or through JEGS P/N 70245.

Yeah, so can't flip the wheels around to single the deuce with LMTV wheels :(

In the shop for "stuff"...

Muffler delete.....sounds the same.