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Check with @1leglance I think he replaced all his originals with alloys.

I will be interested in hearing your comments on this. I have been eyeing it off for a while convincing myself it is needed for something (other than an extension of the 3D printer I bought on the illusion it would be good for stuff on the truck)

Hmmm I don’t know about the OP but I may need to bring my truck up and check it out. Can it handle 47” and 400lbs.

Not mercedes specific but the fan belts on most trucks usually thread out past the fan one blade at a time. Depending on the shroud you may need to squeeze it a bit to get clearance.

Air intake is that grill on the side of the hood. Probably 6’ off the ground so that would not be the limiting factor. All the external electrical is out in the weather anyway so roadspray etc doesn’t affect them so that is probably not the limiting factor. Need to check the breathers, fill...

I didn’t have anything done to the transmission but it probably would of been advisable to have the adaptive learning reset. Ratios are a little overgeared compared to factory. But that is because I ended up using 46” tires instead of the 43” ones. Somewhere in this thread I published the...

You could go with the 7th gear option for the Allison. Same setup as used in the M-1078 S&S trucks. They bolt straight up to the 3000 series Allison and provide a low-low gear and AWD. Like this one eBay Listing If you are looking outside of that the Rockwell T-1138 has an overdrive in high...

Nothing really seals it out. The best option is adding cab pressurization via some type of filter. On our bigger mining equipment we used cyclonic filters and fabric filters (massive) before the blowers and on the smaller stuff it was Donaldson filters with the cyclonic prefilter...

Not a bench but hopefully a dinette with captains chairs.

Winner.

And proof that we give blood, sweat and tears to these projects.

Here is a teaser photo on the current project. This one is being done in first DOANR (aka LilAmbo). Anyone guess what it is?

I have a red dot system sitting in my container that I removed from the Ambo. Rugged but takes up some real estate. We looked at using a DC motor to drive the compressor and being able to use it parked as well as while driving but in the end it was just too much real estate and another project...

If you need tube clamps again try a hydraulics shop. They have various sizes of bolt or weld on and you can get them in stainless steel.

You have industrial fittings and the existing one could be either automotive or ARO.

RIP mate.

With your locks. Check the mechanisms. The ones on my latest truck were bent purposefully so it could never lock some compartments. A little bit of muscle and they functioned adequately.

My toolbox has been a pelican case with everything just tossed in. It was a 2 person job to put in and out of the truck. And it was a PITA to find anything. So on Black Friday last year I grabbed 10 of the Dewalt Deep Pro Organizers with the idea of using them for all the incidents spares...

Controlled fall. Realistically I should of said lower using the 4 web straps that tie it down. But cut sounds better [emoji3]

The bike will be strapped to a rail on the back of the truck. If the truck is on its side you cut the straps and drag the bike out. But the plan is to not to test out that theory. As for being off-road, we always say that these are all road rigs. In theory the only off-road will be the last...