Recent content by MOAK

I’m running a ‘24 F-350 with a Grandby Flatbed, loaded up we scaled out at just over 10,000 lbs, which is just under our GVWR of 11 and change. Currently on the stock 33s but will eventually go up to 35s. 2” leveling blocks in the rear got it back to the correct height. Truck handles great...

I'm watching this conversation. I come from the overloaded 80 series LC world ( 7,000 lbs and a 2,000 lb trailer) and never removed the fronts or the rears. Now we have an F350 and are getting ready to install a pop up camper with a dry weight of 1700 lbs. Add gear, rear bumper, H20, gas...

Only the ford F 150s were twin I beam, 250 were solids.

agreed, back when we were buying farm pickup trucks in the 60s and 70s we bought Fords because we thought Chevys were cheap and could not afford a GMC, knowing full well the GMCs were as good a work truck as an International. Power Wagons were high on the cool scale, but very rare. Then the...

so, let me get this straight. If I have an F350 with a 4WC pop up on it, outfitted for full time living as we explore the very remotest regions in North America, with a five year plan bent on immersing ourselves into the different cultures of these regions, staying off the interstates and...

Ah, the vernacular thing. Crew cab, double cab, etc, each manufacture has a different name- yes, the double cab with an 8 ft bed was considered but we needed a full crew cab. Then yup, the payload thing. Pickup trucks, by design, perform at their very best about half loaded.

I had to correct the payload sentence; we will be a couple hundred pounds over 1/2 the payload of 4k lbs

My brotherinlaw's Chevy Colorado has 92,000 miles on it. He is on his third set of front suspension bushings, his second set of shocks, and his second set of upper control arms. Along with multiple front end wheel alignments. He has replaced the rear leafs with OME heavies in a futile attepmt to...

Hello all, I am installing a midland GMRS radio in our new F350. Bolting it to the bottom tray is a very good place for it. Does anyone know the secret to getting that bottom tray out so that I can drill holes in it to attach the radio bracket and to run the power lines and coax? Thanks in...

Hmm, we are specing out a 400ah system as well. Tell me about the 12v ac system. Is 400ah enough? We’ve been tenting for decades without AC. The rep at FWC recommended using the AC with shore power. We might do shore power sites a couple times a month, primarily for a long hot shower.

I’ll be building out the rear seat area for stowing camera gear, laptops, hiking gear; a small Engle fridge, along with a 17 gallon water tank. Yes, just my wife & I, and yes, we’ve been on multiple month trips. It’s time to retire the 80 series, the tents and all the gear that goes with it...

Well here I go reviving an old thread as we are getting ready to order an F350 with 8’ bed as a foundation for a Grandby 4WD camper to tour in for no less than 3 years and probably 5 or more, full time. . Crew cab is basically a foot longer in wheel base and total length than the super cab...

I had a guy I worked with for years tell me to always get a truck bigger than you think you need. So, what did I do? Went out and bought a 150. A year later I traded it for a 250. I’m a Ford guy and for my very near future build I’m going with the 350 crew cab 8’ bed with a Grandby. Why Ford...

We are currently specing out a full time rig and one priority is- will it fit, in a standard shipping container? Shipping it overseas is a dream for us, but if we never do that, when we sell it, it would be an attractive sales point for someone in the future. You’re talking 16 ft camper...

Did you visit with the fire watcher that lives at the fire tower? She is one incredible lady. As I recall third generation at that post.