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Wow, it's been 5 years already? Alas, September of 2019...when we were still all so young and innocent, but I digress. To folllow-up: Skaug Truck Body Works in San Fernando was able to build a subframe with four spring mounts on each side. It took several months for them to fit me in, as it's an...

Interesting. The info from Counteract (a mfr. of beads) reccomends 12 oz. for 37" mud terrains. I was still getting a shimmy though, so I added 3 oz. to each, which seemed to help. Still not great though. I wonder if having too much could be the problem, or maybe I just need to give up on beads...

Quick one for those of you running balancing beads with 37's on super singles -- how many ounces of beads have you found to be sufficient?

There should be a date on the side of the tube. With the wrong gun though, yes, it can be impossible to get out. You don't have to spend a ton though -- I've found that upgrading from the $5 gun to the $15 gun at Home Depot made all the difference.

Slightly outside the OP's parameters, but I've had great results with a cheap 110 volt residential 5000 BTU window unit mounted on my back wall. It draws around 400 watts when the compressor is on, and offers plenty of cooling for such a tiny space. I've heard some say that these units won't...

Success. Getting the old lug nut off turned out to be a piece of cake with the cutting wheel, and SkiFreak's idea of taping pieces of sacrificial sheet metal to the wheel definitely saved me from doing some inadvertent damage. Good stuff. I was able to whip up my own locknut removal tool as...

Thanks Dan and Dave for the helpful info and photos. I was sort of hoping I wouldn't have to deal with that lock nut, but no such luck.

The shop guide isn't all that clear (to me at least) on how much actually needs to be removed if one just wants to remove the hub/brake drum assembly for the purposes of replacing a lug stud. I've removed what the shop guide calls the "housing assembly," which is the thing that houses the dial...

Thanks for the additional thoughts. I managed to get my hands on new studs and nuts today -- locally. Always a good day when you can say that about Fuso parts. Hell, it's a good enough day when you can find them on the same continent. At any rate, Dan is correct -- there's a nut on the back side...

Thanks for the suggestion. Here's a shot of what I'm dealing with. Plenty of access to get at it with an angle grinder/cutting wheel. I'd have to stop about 1/16" or so shy of the wheel to avoid damaging it, but hopefully that's good enough to bend each section back and forth to break it away.

I have a stuck lug nut on my front left wheel, where both the nut and stud are turning together. I'm assuming my best option at this point is to drill out the stud with progressively larger drill bits until I can snap off the nut. Or is there a better option? Other questions: 1. I think I've...

4" Eternabond tape over all seams.

GoTreads XL. Rated for up to 50k pounds, easy to store, and double as leveling blocks.

I finally got my hands on a new air filter, so was able to more confidently go after the stuck one. No amount of twisting and pulling was working, part of the problem being that there's nothing really great to grab onto while you do this, and the whole air box assembly wants to flex with any...

Thanks for the insights. I went at more aggressively this morning, but still can't get it to budge in the slightest. I guess I better get my hands on a new one before I get too crazy, as I don't want to damage it and be stuck with no filter.

On a 2004 FG649 -- Is there some sort of trick to removing the air filter? The shop guide implies that after removing the cover from the bottom of the air box, the filter should just drop out easily, but mine is really stuck up in there. I've tried twisting and pulling pretty aggressively, but...

What was your method for cutting a single piece to such an odd shape?

I can only relate my experience surviving this past Southern California summer (i.e. regular highs in the mid to upper 90s and periodic stretches over 100): Zero trouble maintaining the mid to low 70s in my rig, this with 1100 watts of solar, 5k Btu a/c, routinely running the a/c from 11am until...

Actually, 1000+ watt array would produce way more than 50 amps in peak sunlight. And if the a/c unit is being run during the daytime, it wouldn't even touch the battery bank with an array that large. My 5000 BTU unit (plenty for a small camper) pulls about 450 watts with the compressor running...

I got my hands on an on IR temp gun, and after a good solid 90 minutes on the freeway, I was surprised to see that it was only showing 130 degrees Fahrenheit. Interesting to see the difference between what *feels* hot and then the actual temp. I would've guessed a much higher temp would be...