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Source some vehicle insurance, don't drive at night and cross the border with a full tank of fuel, a full stomach and an empty bladder. You'll be fine.

I wouldn't get one as I prefer to be standing when I pull my pants up.

The OEM filter and separator should be sufficient to protect the system. Be careful modifying the low pressure side of the fuel system as it can impact the fuel system as a whole. Take the truck to a shop to see if the relative and absolute fuel pressures in the system are within spec.

What i see is a parabolic suspension doing its thing.

A good mechanical engineer always incorporates a part into the design that will sacrifice itself for the good of the whole.

Its wise to add one if it didn't exist in the first place. Protection against water and dirt is easy, protection against cross contamination with other fluids isn't and is often overlooked.

Fuel tank condensation is easy to solve with an air vent dryer.

Everyone wants to travel and explore far away lands and remote locations. Once you start crossing borders and jumping continents, vehicle preservation should be forefront in an overlander's mind.

Only add a filter and water separator if neither currently exist in the fuel system. Otherwise let the OEM filter and water separator do their thing. OEM filters and water separators are sized to protect the fuel systems they are used on. Just carry additional OEM filters and your good to go...

Glad your back on the road. Geographically speaking, a road trip to Alaska from the lower 48, is all uphill.

You can't have a frame designed to flex be constrained by a rigid body. Torsion free mounts allow the frame to flex and yet protects the rigid body from that flex. Otherwise cabinet frames will crack and split, plumbing fittings will fail and window and door seals will wear and start to leak...

Lets keep that a secret. One can also build a waypoint database by importing iOverlander waypoint files into BaseCamp by country.

I use a Garmin GPSmap62s. Route and track planning are done in Garmin BaseCamp. You can't beat a device that can show you where your at, point you with directions to where you want to go and if you have tracking turned on and displayed, where you've been, all at the same time.

I use a SiriusXM Portable Speaker Dock SD2 for my Satellite radio. Having English speaking radio in Mexico helped me keep my sanity.

Source a locking fuel cap if you can. Diesel Fuel Quality Hydrometer Water and dirt in diesel fuel is an easy fix. Start with a Mr Funnel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5exQCUaBc7I Cross contamination with other fluids is a totally different issue that very few people ever talk about.

It boils down to having trust in your fuel source. The locals should know.

Fuel quality is indeed a concern on modern CRD engines. But its the emissions components that can bring your travels quickly to a halt. It's easy to protect against water and dirt comtaimination, but impossible to protect against contamination with other fluids such as gasoline or alcohol...

I can see some advantages to a RTT and camping beside a vehicle, but having to offload and repack gear at every stop and in ****ty weather, not being one on them. I'm all for going to remote places, but there have been times where parking up and pulling out the steps and unpacking a single...

I use the frozen bottles as well and added a plastic bucket to contain the ice.

Have you considered a small pop up style camper?