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Nothing wrong with preferring the older trucks. But a 6.2 can roll with the 7.3 perfectly well. It just downshifts to a higher rpm to do so. Great engine. The only time it feels labored is if you let the trans up shift too much. Operator error.

The only thing that stinks about $$$$ shocks, Is I have to make up my mind what springs and height I'm going to settle on before buying them. I'll echo the expensive shocks as well. Yeah the pricing is rough, but they're rebuildable, and tune-able, in your own garage. That's worth a lot...

As if that really made a difference. I've been drifting corners all week long this week. Scaled in at 11,000#'s. And Saturday we're expecting a blizzard. My nearly empty personal truck gets drivin even harder. Like ticketed for "being airborne at an intersection" hard. In Ohio we dump...

I can find dozens of Aussie Club vids on youtube of them offroading. Properly. Excellent control, not tearing up the trail, not tearing up the truck. Taking it easy, to find the proper line. Very impressive. Can hardly find a single US one. Brrraaaaaap, crunch, pop. And then at the...

Not if you take your time and do it right. Someone flips over an RV every day. Plenty of decent DIY kits: https://www.overlandkitted.com/four-wheel-drive/2018/10/17/the-affordable-composite-overland-camper

Sure looks similar to me. Needs a tummy tuck to get those fuel tanks up for high center clearance..

Well if you can't operate a Simple Green spray bottle, or stick a box together, then yeah, you're better off dumping $200,000 on something all new. I've pulled perfectly good, only 3 years old, AC units off of crushed RV's for only a few hundred bucks. Windows, doors, furnaces. It's not...

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$20k goes a long ways towards a brand new truck. That's more than half my OTD cost. I just did a local search. Wow! Clapped out trucks with 200,000 miles are selling for half the cost of new. Forget that. I was thinking fleet trade in. But those also need all the front axle joints, all...

My gas 250 has 3100# cargo capacity. CCSB. Diesel f250 has 1900# cargo capacity. Gas 350 is often around 4000#. Diesel 350 is 3200# or less. Diesels are fat pig engines. Every pound counts with slide ins. Even if you add springs to a F350 level, now you have to pay attention to tires...

The 110v in the truck cab is for phone chargers and such. It doesn't have any guts. Better off running DC to the camper and inverting it there. And charging the campers battery off DC as well.

Nope: Still looks like the darn cab has to come off. Cyl #8 is likely where the the dash is.

Diesel, 3/4 ton, and slide in camper don't go together unless it's a 'lil FWC. Gas 3/4 ton, or diesel 1 ton with any hard side camper. Even the light ones. On a tight budget. A traded in white work truck might be your best option. A 6.2l gas Ford is my recommendation as well.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a25887079/ford-volkswagen-partnership-trucks-vans/ VW Ranger is non-US only.

I think we have it pretty good for truck donors. Ford F550, Acela and other LMTV rebuilders, Kenworth. Flatbed and a box, done.

TFL is still new. I hope they stick with "how a truck makes them feel", the pass/fail nature of travel, and continue being unabashedly biased. Nathan wears a PW shirt everywhere for example. The more accurate a reviewer becomes, the more useless their reviews become. Unbiased reviews...

Hilift Extreme with a winching kit. I've given up on electric winches as well. Rarely needed, too expensive, too heavy. Senseless bling, bling. I'm starting to like the Wilco HD hitch tire mounts for 37" tires, with the cooler mount on top. Frees up room in the camper. HD mud rated...

The horsepower wars are making the trucks worse. The manual trans is just too slow. If the Momo's won't buy it, there isn't enough economy of scale to produce it, for people like us. I like manuals because they generally don't fail. If there's a weak point to the master cylinder, you...

That's why I use K or DA. Gasoline won't light, won't light, still won't light, then FOOOOMP!, huge fireball.

That's straight from ARB. I'm sure they have there reasons for not publishing it. 2.5g's should be OK. But I might crank the pressure up a hair just so that as the tank empties, you're still well within spec.