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I converted 2 liters/100 km into 'Murican, and came up with a 117 mpg improvement. Impressive. Either I'm doing something boneheaded (not unlikely), or there's a missing decimal somewhere.

PKDreamers -- Beautiful. Thank you!

By any chance, does anyone happen to know the part number for a 2004 FG649 tie rod end? Googling my specific model year turns up nothing, but if I generically search for "Fuso tie rod end", I find a few that look like they *might* be right. I suspect/hope that the same tie rod ends were used...

Cool pics, Cameron. Thanks. The Timbrens are indeed on my list...very soon. My truck is also missing the rear bump stops it turns out (in addition to the helper spring stoppers), so its helpful to see what the rear setup is supposed to look like. Good stuff.

Pithy. Thanks Dave -- that's pretty much what I was thinking. I guess I'll just go for it.

I have recently discovered that my 2004 FG649 is missing what the shop guide calls "helper spring stoppers" (part #22 in the diagram below). I found what looks like the right part on eBay...

Ask about past frame repairs and rust. Pretty sure this is the same truck I flew back east to check out over a year ago. I had had several very encouraging conversations on the phone with the owner, enough to warrant flying out to see it in person. Got all the way there only to find that a...

Is the Broan available in 12 volts? Or are you running it off an inverter?

Yes, it seems that just making a best guess and seeing how it works out is what people do. Which I find surprising -- I would've thought there'd at least be some sort of general rule of thumb by now, along the lines of "for every 1k lbs. of weight, add X to your spring compression rate" or...

Excellent. What led you to decide on the 8" of length? And any concerns about corrosion?

I get it -- it's a complex problem, especially if a dead nuts answer is the goal. But I'm thinking one isn't. There's likely an acceptable ballpark, within which one will be fine, and I'm just looking for info on how to get to said ballpark. There are, after all, thousands of self-built...

But this is a hypothetical scenario, so the camper is effectively done, and hypothetically weighs 5000 pounds. I agree with using a "best guess" approach as a starting point and working from there, so I guess I what I'm really asking is where/how to start the best guessing. On that...

Resurrecting this thread to hopefully get some insight on how to choose the right springs for my subframe. McMaster-Carr has tons of options, as someone indicated above: https://www.mcmaster.com/die-springs//color-coded-die-springs-6/ As has been stated, I realize that there is no...

Maybe you over-torqued the screws? Flat washers may have helped too.

Let's see here -- after two whole weeks, two perfectly constructive responses suggesting the alternative view, fueled by real-world experience no less, and neither one even remotely "all riled up" or "attacking like rabid dogs." Your "Right on queue" seems a stretch. Might I suggest...

The Monstaliner turned out great. Congrats -- I know from personal experience how much work it is to do this well... Is that color "Desert Sand?" Rolled or sprayed?

Beautiful stuff, @IdaSHO. Question -- I realize you did multiple passes with different colors in order to get these graphics, and so I'm assuming that no one color actually covers the whole box, but hypothetically, if one wanted to monstaline a box of roughly similar size with just a single...

Nothing but a big tease...

An array that large will be a lot more cost-effective and simple using 24volt panels. You can get single panels in the 300-400 watts range, so you need fewer panels, which means a much simpler mounting solution, much less wiring, the panels are cheaper per watt, charge controller will be a lot...

Aha. Thank you!