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From fire truck to MTV
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Nice to have some quick and easy mods. Installed fire extinguisher bracket with 5lb drychem.
Also did a full rebuild on air dryer as it was leaking out the discharge
Also did a full rebuild on air dryer as it was leaking out the discharge
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Used it to take the family to the park, met a guy with a 2.5 ton, chased the kids around playing tag, youngest painting a storage box that goes behind passenger seat.
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I know, I'm slacking on them!You're a machine!
when you going to paint your Eco hubs
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No idea how the wifey managed to convert the truck with her selfieWow, a right side driver.
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Did some research on heating and cooling requirements today. Put the wife's space heater inside in the morning and ran all day. Measured power output at 1.4kw.
Ideally would have gone longer but makes it pretty clear the 5kw diesel heaters will be more than sufficient reguardless of outside temp. Took a lot of thermal data so I could see exactly where heat was being lost. Passthrough door hasn't been insulated yet and is by far the biggest heat transfer location. Overall, looks like the insulation is working awesome.
Ideally would have gone longer but makes it pretty clear the 5kw diesel heaters will be more than sufficient reguardless of outside temp. Took a lot of thermal data so I could see exactly where heat was being lost. Passthrough door hasn't been insulated yet and is by far the biggest heat transfer location. Overall, looks like the insulation is working awesome.
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Can confirm. We have a glycol system (Eberspacher s3d5e) and it does its job very well.
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Am I guessing correctly that 5kw would be about 3.5 times more than needed at -14F? Right or wrong can you translate what the unit run time percentage would be? I know an oversize unit will drive you crazy especially in a small space.
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Not quite, notice the 40°F delta with 1.4kw, so about double that to hit 70f. It also took a LONG time to bring the interior up to temp so that 5kw will be very handy for that. It as a 2.5 kw power as well and will be heating water too so cycle time should be kept in check I would think.
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Mainly been working on design of systems so lots of time researching parts. Wallet is quite a bit lighter after diesel heater, victron electrics, heat pump, etc. Parts to start arriving soon.
Wife said she needed a sun visor so 3d printed up a holder and found some similar visors (a little shorter but they work). Also installed some flip steps to aid in climbing around the truck. Ended up drilling and tapping the holes (M
in that vertical beam, it ended up being about 6-8mm thick so plenty to hold the steps.
Wife said she needed a sun visor so 3d printed up a holder and found some similar visors (a little shorter but they work). Also installed some flip steps to aid in climbing around the truck. Ended up drilling and tapping the holes (M
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Kids came home from school and loved the steps, mom was not pleased.
Probably not the first (and won't be the last) time.
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So mom wasn't pleased...
Oh my goodness! Her babies might fall off the top of that truck.
It will be just fine. You seem to have taught them not to walk off the edge...
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Fall? They're going to actively jump for fun, just to see if the leaves are soft. I would be
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Figuring out location for the webasto...can fit it nicely in the battery tray, however it's best for it to be higher than the tank to avoid bubbles in the fuel line. Would be nice to have it below the stock overflow tank and to be able to not have a second overflow. I don't have a lot of locations I could put it to make that happen. I may place it above the ABS, between the tire and pass though, that's above the overflow though so another overflow would be needed.
Maybe right down there above the abs...hmm
Maybe right down there above the abs...hmm
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Took a few hours today and fabbed up the stairs mounting. For now straps can hold it in the upper position but I'm going to make something a little slicker.
