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Oh sweet! I'll go have a peruse

Can't seem to figure out how to locate it. Do you have a link?

I also think it will be great for overlanding! It seems like an endlessly rebuildable truck, on many fronts.

Sounds Exciting! Ever used that mechanical engineering for Overland stuff??

Seems to be what all the insta famous people do, in hopes of a future patreon sponsorship... 🤣 Don't worry, I'm not that needy. haha

One of the other issue with these trucks, is the restrictive exhaust manifold. We can tap into something called drive pressure. The high pressure leaving the engine, will drive the turbo. This drive pressure should hit the turbo at the same psi that it leaves the exhaust valve. However, the...

Warning: This post is full of really nerdy stuff. As promised, The go fast parts. Although, any friend with a duramax would tease and say, "It's not actually a fast truck". They'd be correct but I don't care, I love this old truck. I call them go fast parts, and typically they would be, but in...

Yeah! I'm North of Nanaimo in the Comox Valley. Great place to live. The promised Land really.

Yeah I'm pretty excited. Some of the current details are still a secret though.

Feel free too post some pics of that sunrader cummins combo! That sounds epic. Thanks for following along.

So, I didn't want to just leave the flat deck with out putting some bar on the sides of it, to match the apron on the back. I drew this up by editing a picture I took of the truck on my phone, and to me, it seemed like it would look pretty good doing it this way. Eventually the front bars will...

Hopefully Its a fun ride. I know I've sure been enjoying the process.

Here's my Beauty!

So, while I was working on the truck, I still had a 2019 Ford Transit van. I had built that short wheel base, medium roof height van to live in, and did so for almost 4 years. I'm such an outside person, I don't really need much more than a place to sleep and rest. life is simple. work, walk the...

Here's the Almost finished product! Side bars aren't finished yet but I really like how it turned out. Out of order, I had actually fabricated a new front bumper before I built the flat deck. If you saw in the first post, the front bumper had been used as a bumper... Imagine that.

I had to build custom mounts to hold the flat deck to the truck because the factory mounts were wrecked by having that old loggers box on there. This is what I came up with for the back and the front.

Thank you! I'll be spending the next few weeks trying to catch everyone up to speed. I have two years of pictures and stories.

I started to realize, after a short while, this truck had a lot of life left in it. It really just needed to dry out, get some love and some maintenance. The idea of building it just for work, quickly left me as I realized this truck had some significant advantages to being an overland vehicle...

The Truck came with another Problem.... No power. Not 12 Valve cummins, 160 hp, lack of power, but, something is wrong, lack of power. Turns out the intercooler was full of pin holes and all the boost was leaking out. A good friend had a power stroke intercooler and offered it up to me very...

Been slowly working away on this truck for the last two years, and, I thought I should start Sharing what I've been up to on Expedition Portal. I've been on here for a number of years, but mostly floating, with the odd post. Anyway! Lets begin. So, Its a 1991.5 (That's for the cummins nerds)...