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Cool! You might have seen it but I have only driven it a handful of times since getting it in April. Been wanting to baseline everything before really putting a ton of miles on it. I might take you up on the help offer. Thanks! Update: I dropped off the radiator at the shop I have used...

Finally got some free time to do some work on the M1010. Next up is the cooling system refresh. I am going to be installing a Paradox By Design cooling upgrade kit, which route coolant from the rear head ports to the crossover tube. They found by doing this, it balances out the coolant temp...

I have a question about these diesel heaters versus a Propex one. Do these have a thermostat that will cycle the heater based on the ambient temp or do these just run at whatever setting you put them at? I know the Propex cycles.

@chilliwak Here are a few pics. Hope this is helpful. When the interior was painted by the Sheriff dept, they did not tape off the inner bellows which is why you see the white paint cracking. The rubber is fine.

Hey Chilliwak, let me get some pics this week and post them up. The M1010 uses a unique bellows designed for this rig, which is a very heavy duty rubber type, accordion gasket that is riveted to the cab and box. The box has it's own sliding door to seal off the box. The back of the cab is cut...

You can still rotate which is about all you need, assuming you get it straight. :)

Can't you drill a hole in the upright and then use a spacer and long bolt to secure from the ends?

Not my first rodeo on fabbing up seat mounts for seats that never belonged in the vehicle I am putting them in. As for these Jeep seats, the big metal brackets unbolt and leave the slider tracks and a nice, flat mounting surface. On my measurements before I picked them up, the seat bottom will...

For an M1010, bench seats do not allow access to the pass thru cab door. They already come with bucket seats but they are fixed back and kind of "springy". Not too bad but I have spend many thousands of miles in JK front buckets and like how they feel, on road and off road. Here are a couple...

What an awesome build. I love these FG 4x4's but out of my budget. Love that fold out table.

Picked up a couple things for the rig. Found some very high quality solar panels. 150 watt, 24 volt panels that when using a DC/DC solar charger, I should get 20+ amps of charge power. I think that will work very well for our needs. Got them cheap at $0.50 per watt. Also picked up some 2012...

This is my second one. The first one I decide not to build as I didn't want to take a couple years building. I bought a Dodge Ram and a FWC camper and used that for a number of years. Now I am willing to take the time to build what I want. I will say, if you really want one, start looking...

Thanks! Definitely welcome to come by and check it out. I am in the San Diego area. Been working up a spreadsheet of needed items for the build. Gets expensive quickly. LOL What are you building?

I am not looking so much as a catastrophic failure but things like the alt regulator going out, belt breakage, bad bearing. Something that would keep the bank from charging. I can manually remove the charge cable from the alt, remove the belt and flip this switch and have the two systems...

There will be NO 24 volt systems left in the vehicle. I would be running a full charging management system for the house batteries (looking at a RedArc Manager 30 and running a LiPo4 battery bank, with solar). Direct charging will be to the engine batteries which will be FLA or AGM type.

Actually I might have answered my own question. It seems this Blue Sea switch basically will do what I am after. I would need to removed the belt and disconnect the wire to the alternator for the failed unit and then switch this to combine the two banks...

Hi all, So my M1010 (Desert Turtle) project is in the planning phase and I am working on figuring out some of the electrical. For those who do not know, the M1010 has a dual alternator system to provide 24 volts for the starting system and a couple systems that are related to the ambulance box...

The old ones I removed were not Bilstein but some cheap shocks. Now I have some gooood Bilstein's :)

If by shell, you mean box, it is in very good condition. Cab is also in good shape. No cracks at the steering box mounts and I am planning to buy the ORD steering brace to prevent anything.

Wow, that interior is coming out very nice. Well done!