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Nice write-up! I've been curious about these heaters and the Planar in particular, glad to learn they make both a high altitude version & an improved fuel pump. Your Gas can looks great too, especially with the quick connects, nice solution!

Congratulations on a new (old) house and a new (old) truck and a shop to park it in! I like the name Sandy too, much more graceful than Choppy, Grindy or Weldy ;) Looks like you're going to run low on things to clean/fix & paint, so maybe we'll get some more of your great trip reports again...

... I think I follow, but if the trans temp is lower than the radiator, wouldn't you be using the transmission to cool the antifreeze? The towing package radiator is exclusively for the transmission, but it sits in front of the stock radiator and has no fan of its own. I'm looking for a good...

Good news about your mods--that got me thinking. I don't have a temp gauge for my transmission, but my truck came stock with the extra towing package radiator. The only problem I've had with it was the bypass hose burst in my driveway one night, luckily, there was plenty of hose to bypass the...

The fully boxed frame is impressive, good steel (if it isn't Spanish), stiff, and they worked hard to fit everything above it so it stays protected. The turning radius is crap, but I don't know enough to say that's a matter of the frame. While that is worth fixing, the rest of the frame performs...

The conductivity of any metal is probably less important than its corrosion resistance. Some dissimilar metals will inspire galvanic corrosion and brass is not one of them. Stainless should work fine. If you have any screw holes in the base of the shunt, use those. The base should be an...

That looks great on your truck! Post up a few more pictures once you have it out in the wild-

Still working on breaking my '08- I don't need a new truck, just more gas! This looks pretty sweet though...

24" x 32" might be pretty tight if you have elbows or knees. Make yourself a box that size and see if you fit with your dirt on-- Or ponder a bathing area defined by the pan & contained by a curtain?

McMaster Carr has some great info on various plastic properties; flexibility, hardness, impact resistance, tensile strength etc. https://www.mcmaster.com/plastics/ Start with Plastics under the Raw Materials heading Once you start choosing materials, the properties can be seen or searched for in...

Should Maine be compensating Delica owners for removing the utility and sale value of their vehicles? Even a reclassification may not get them out of that obligation. That minivan needs a lawyer! Obviously talking sense to the BMV isn't going to change anything-

I have a Frontier with principally original parts and something like a 1.5"-2" lift to fit 33" tires on stock rims It's a camping rig, not a rock crawler, but I like to camp at the end of really bad roads. It's been like this for a few years and only now am I considering new upper control arms...

Not a bad price for a Summit + Goose Gear and a camp table with a red Chevy attached! GLWS

It's true that a few pinstripes could look bad on an everyday vehicle, but when you add MaxTrax and a tire carrier on the back--everything changes! As long as you look like your about to leave civilization instead of coming back to it every scratch is a mark of cred. not weakness! The only way...

Not an LR4 owner, but a gremlin hunter in my own right. Time & tools and a methodology might get you some insight. The Gap tool seems pretty indispensable if you want data from your truck, or you want to see what is lighting up your dash. Understanding the limitations of the battery will also...

These are great stoves--ours is called "One Time" for all work we have to put into lighting it. 20k BTU burners are no joke! You make me think I should get another one even though I can't see mine breaking any time soon...

Bypass diodes! lots of them! Partial shading can kill output so quickly, if you only have a panel or two for all your power keeping it pumping out watts is pretty important.

I wonder about the "nothing we can do" part. The chicken tax perhaps has outlived its useful lifespan, maybe we could work to cut down the number of years we need to wait to import vehicles that no company bothers to sell here? Obviously the country is short on vehicles, and the world is full of...

Been driving an '08 frontier since new. Brakes are less than great, so is the turning radius. HP is plentiful- but there is a split-second lag between when you decide to spend the gas money and when it disappears. SMOD is easily avoided with a separate transmission cooler, if it came with the...

The bed rails on your truck have a ton of gaps and you can fit your fingers through the corners. Metal duct sealing tape is probably the quickest way to seal it all up, but that could take half an hour on your back looking up to get done.