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Get a Ford F150 3.5 Ecoboost... I wouldn't. OP says he wants to do it once and do it right. EcoBoost is complicated and probably fine if you plan to turn the truck over every three to five years, but seems risky for a long-term buy. I keep my trucks a long time (current fleet is 21, 14, 11...

The GM half-ton transmissions are notoriously unreliable, but the rebuilt one should have lasted longer. My '98 K1500 is approaching 200M and I expected to need a new trans by now, but so far, so good. I am, however, getting close to blowing the rear diff for the second time. Also exploded...

Here are some pics for Chet6.7. This is the first box that I cooked up, came from Summit Racing. I added a length of angle iron across the top with lip pointing toward the centerline of the truck so that It would hang on the top of the frame rail and not put the bolts in shear. Also makes it...

You are not even going to fit a set of AA batteries in the location in front of the radiator on a 4th gen CTD. OP is running a 4G 1500 gasser, so for him the radiator idea should work. Would not work on any CTD, 3G or 4G or otherwise. I have not looked behind the grill on an EcoDiesel but...

The first under-cab frame-mount pic that Chet6.7 posted is my 3G Power Wagon. In the 3G (and probably the 4+G) Rams, there is no place in the engine compartment to mount a second battery without ditching the factory airbox. When I did my battery upgrades, there were no CAI kits that would...

My ARB is sitting on the kitchen floor running on AC. It is full of meat and has not been opened in two weeks until just now. The ARB display shows -18C, but my infrared thermometer shows -16C to -12C in the main compartment, depending on where I measure. It is probably -18C at the bottom...

I fooled around with different gasses years ago because the AC in another truck just wasn't cooling effectively. It is a 134 system in a GMC and I found some propane-based refrigerant from Canada that worked very well. Only problem was that the AC squeaked constantly with that stuff in it...

If a fridge is going to be run in those type of temperatures then it needs another type of Gas inside it, because the fridge gas r134a is not meant to be used in such high temperatures. Well, maybe. But I doubt that Arizona is hotter than parts of Australia or South Africa, and these were...

When my Indel B 50 was new and when my house batteries were new, that fridge would hold -22C when outside ambient touched 128F in mid-afternoon. Fridge had been pre-chilled, some of the stuff went in frozen, fridge was near full, had a pile of clothing (insulation) on top of the fridge, factory...

Perhaps I am oversimplifying this, but the obvious answer is: "It depends." Depends mostly on ambient temps around the fridge and internal temp setting on the fridge. You will burn more amps in Arizona than in British Columbia. More in summer than in winter. Lots of other factors, but those...

I had an Odyssey G31 starter battery and a pair of Optima G34 dual purpose marine house batteries in my Power Wagon. Replaced them last summer with three V-Max AGMs, a G31 and a pair of G34s. The V-Max have been fine so far, and the G31 is behaving better at this early stage than the last...

Did you actually look at a Tundra? My shifter is on the column, no center console Probably depends on which version you look at. My CrewMax is an SR5 with front buckets, center console, and shifter in the console. The console is nice, but the shift gate is poorly designed.

I'm not a Ford guy, never owned an F150. Do own a Tundra CrewMax SR5, bought lightly used from a friend. It's OK, but feels like a light duty truck compared to my K1500 and PW (I know the PW is not a fair comparison). The Tundra is fast and quiet and comfortable, and the CrewMax cab is huge...

Re ball joints, when my PW needed them, I went with DynaTrac because they can be rebuilt without removing them from the truck. Don't know if that is the case with Carli. From the DynaTrac website: Dynatrac BallJoints are rebuildable -- they can be rebuilt on the vehicle with common hand tools...

Depends on what you are trying to accomplish. LEDs are cool and low draw, but Hella halogen driving lamps will throw light farther than most LEDs and price is not too bad. Hella halogen fogs seem to have better cutoff than most LEDs. I have Hellas on my PW, plus a Morimoto (I think) LED bar...

This post is a last ditch effort to find an alternate methods of getting AH without putting the batteries in my passenger compartment. You asked about the engine compartment, but the other alternative is to mount one or more batteries under the truck, on the frame rail. I did this on my Power...

A Raptor is significantly shorter than an HD Ram. I look down on those guys at stoplights. I look down on those guys, just on general principles.

Mine is not a GMT800, but I have a '98 GMC. It came with two battery boxes, the second one being for SUVs with rear A/C. I just put in a pair of 34/78s with an isolator. Depending on the batteries used, that pair gives me about 150ah vs 105ah for a single 31 AGM. There is no good place for a...

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Pelican Parts has just started a group buy on the Element Fire Extinguishers...