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I dig this build! The Excursion platform never received enough love, sadly I think that was due to it being marketed as a kid hauler instead of a pickup truck with a covered bed. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the posts documenting its transformation!

Hardest part of the whole install to be honest. Thread the bolt in until it just protrudes into the open cavity. I then grabbed the flag with a pair of long reach needle nose and held it up there. Once it was roughly in place I used the access hole on the back side to poke a finger through and...

How much is expensive? Should be what, $35/5 L of ATF and $56 for the filters, so $150 total?

MORE PICS!!! What's the back spacing on those wheels?

I can understand how frustrating it must be dealing with an issue like this, but unless there are other factors leading to this decision it seems a bit hasty to get rid of it. You've put a ton of work into that rig, and once the front axle is fixed up (and you get new radius arms) that seems...

Keep in mind that should you choose to put a battery in the passenger compartment, an AGM battery should be used as traditional lead acid batteries offgas hydrogen which could go boom.

If I were in your shoes, I'd install the Highmark fender kit in conjunction with these brackets in the 1/2" position (https://www.synergymfg.com/synergy-ram-front-radius-arm-drop-brackets.html), then see about the biggest tires I could stuff in there. Your current suspension system is far...

And here I was thinking $550 for a Trailready or Hutchinson beadlock was expensive. Maybe I can just tell the wife it was the beadlocks or $1,200 per rim, so in reality getting thr beadlocks would save us money.

The axle itself isn't bent, but the plug welds holding the axle tubes to and within the pumpkin have broken, allowing the axle tubes to rotate within the pumpkin. This makes it impossible to hold an alignment and has potential driveline implications as well. It's just an unfortunate reality of...

I'd second getting the cheapest wheels you can and swapping them out later. Often times you need a rim with less back spacing when moving to larger tires. Another thing to consider may be a higher output or dual alternators. Not sure how many batteries your truck camper will have, but the more...

Cool! The more I look at his arms, the more I realize that they represent a tremendous value when you consider that even a simple set of brackets that just move the radius arm mount are $500 by themselves. Looking forward to hearing your tboughts.

Hell, if you want to open the space up, do a 180* pivot like the Flippacs of old. That would give you gobs of space. With the right setup you could even get rid of the fragile torsion spring that plagued their design. Also, good choice on the Coopers. Swapped out the stock Firestone’s on my...

Check out Go Fast Campers (https://gofastcampers.com/collections/campers/products/gfc-platform-standard) if you haven’t already. I do believe their campers are similar to what your napkin sketch depicts.

https://www.rcvperformance.com/ultimate-aam-925-cv-axle-set-for-dodge-ram-2500-3500-14-up-with-disconnect.html How’s about some RCV axle shafts? No more worries about busting a U-joint! As far as brakes go, I have EBC sport rotors and orange stuff pads up front. It was a solid upgrade...

Awesome! I’ll have to submit mine for compensation as well, I just installed it a couple of days ago and have to echo your thoughts about it being a stout, well built piece of equipment.

I’ve owned 2 campers now (travel trailer and a truck camper) that have needed some fairly major rebuilding, and I can say with complete confidence that they are the most poorly built dwellings I’ve ever encountered. It’s like they intentionally fabricate them in a way that necessitates ripping...

No personal experience with any of the big 3, but I’ll be going with Dynatrac when the time comes. No offense to Carli, but I have a hard time believing that any component, especially one subject to as much abuse as ball joints, could possibly be a lifetime component. Maybe it is, maybe it...

Woof, not a fan of the new styling. For some reason I can’t look at it without it looking like the derp face kid meme to me.

I went with the Synergy. They all pretty much look the same, but if anything I was hoping it would play nice with their drag link. Figured I might as well eliminate any potential issues.

Guys, check your drag link NOW. Just crawled under my truck and found one of the jam nuts backed off a few turns. Of course we are boondocked at the moment and I don’t have a wrench big enough, so I’ll have to hand tighten and limp it 12 miles down the road to the wrench store.