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Nice, what did you use to draw that up? If it were me, I'd put a lift bed in the living area and chop 4-5 feet off the back bedroom area. You could still do a short garage/storage area behind the rear axles but your departure angle would vastly improve.

I experienced ~40mph crosswinds when I drove across South Dakota and Montana last summer and I was amazed at how solid my M1079 was. Probably a combination of the weight and stiff suspension, but my truck didn't rock and I had no problems keeping in my lane through the gusts.

Waterloo Specialties normally sells everything you need, but the evaporators have been few and far between, and condensers have been vaporware for a while now. https://lmtvtrucks.com/AC/index.html

The diagnostics cover should just push in and unscrew. The red switch is a battery disconnect that kills power to the truck.

A lot of us use AW-32 hydraulic fluid from the auto parts store. The o-rings on my cab latch disintegrated soon after I got my truck and spewed clear fluid everywhere, so the original red fluid was replaced at some point. I replaced the o-rings and refilled with AW-32 and haven't had any issues.

Yeah, with that slide hammer bead breaker and a Milwaukee 18v impact gun I was able to change out all 5 tires on my truck solo with zero former experience. I would also recommend getting a 6 ft section of 3/4" pipe from Home Depot or Lowes and cutting it in half to use to help guide/lift the...

Good info, thanks for sharing. Adding the intake heater bus bar to my list of pm checks.

@GeneralDisorder what is you plan for gauging the second tank? I was planning to add a second stock gauge in the "empty" spot on the dash next to the original gauge, but since the A1R gauges go through the MMDC it isn't as straightforward as I'd hoped.

Yes, stock is 62,618 PPM with 395s and 3.90 gears, so with ecohubs you just halve it to 31,309 PPM.

@Primussucks thank you! I was hoping to hear that the driver's side could be done without pulling the whole bumper, it is mighty crowded under that side.

Cab bushings are on my to-do list, could you share the helpful tricks?

Yep, halve the pulses per mile for the speedometer if you have the stock 3.90 gears and 395/85R20 tires. The tachometer doesn't need to change.

The winning bid was just over $36k. Pretty high for an auction truck, but not a bad deal when you consider the cost of a similarly capable/equipped truck. It makes me feel like my truck is an appreciating asset haha.

Wow, you did the right thing to walk away. I wouldn't pay more than "parts truck" prices for a truck I couldn't inspect.

Plug and play - unscrew the old valve and screw in the new one.

Haha wow, I was just looking into these myself for the second tank I recently pulled from a parts truck. Our two trucks are going to wind up with a lot of parallels. I've been waffling between manual valves for reliability, and electronic valves for convenience/the ability to switch tanks on...

I bought one of these to replace a leaking valve, nice solid brass valve for half the cost of the NAPA one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B076P8BCM9?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title#aw-udpv3-customer-reviews_feature_div

Nice clean truck, it is interesting to see all the small differences between this one and the 2008 models. A lot of M1079s seem to get very little use, mine only had 300 miles on it when it was put up for surplus and when I got it there was paperwork inside it indicating that it had only been...

Dang, sorry you had issues, this is good info to know. I bought a spare valve from them this summer and it sure looked legitimate, I would have looked elsewhere had I known they were selling inferior knockoffs.

Super cool trucks, I wish I could justify getting another truck right now -- a couple just came up for auction in California: K-2358 truck 1 K-2358 truck 2