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For context the GM donor vehicle has a gvwr of 9200 pounds. That is before shock upgrades.

Finally got the van weighed. At absolute max load it is 9200 lb. That's about 400 lb heavier than 2wd once I accounted for some payload changes.

De-winterized the unit last week when someone burned off a huge field upwind of our campsite. Closed the windows and started the unit up off the inverter. Worked just fine. At some point I will recover the refrigerant and do a couple small changes. shorten the capillary tube, as its too...

I wasn't around enough to know. The input power was pretty consistent, so you can estimate the duty cycle from that.

There are situations where dual rear wheel provide more flotation. But this is only true if you net tire width and load ratios comparable. Duals can pick up rocks, especially aired down. Having two flats at once sucks... That being said its not very common. In most of the soft stuff...

Realistically evaluate your needs. 4wd is typically not necessary. I would argue that if you really needed it, you would already know. Given the premium 4wd vans command, I don't think its worth it for marginal usage cases.

It took about 2 weeks on and off to get the hardware together and testing it out. It was a fun project. If there was an off the shelf product that let me control both a fridge and freezer, I would have bought it! We live in our van for years at a time, so having easy to use fridge/freezer is...

They do have a modbus on some models, but it an odd proprietary format, so you would need to code your own implementation.

For results, we have been running this for 4 days now. There was some initial debug, but it appears to be working well. Ice cream stays firm, fridge stays right in the desired range. This is a 110liter fridge with BD35 compressor. With the dynamic compressor speed built into the controller...

We have a Danfoss/Secop based fridge/freezer in our van (Common to isotherm, vitrifrigo, truckfridge, indelB etc). Like most is was delivered with a garbage mechanical thermostat that kinda guessed at the freezer temp. We had to adjust winter/summer to keep the freezer cold enough, and it...

Quigley with locked center diff is the better platform in general. The mb v6 is the lesser when compared to the petrol/gasoline offerings in the USA, but that may be different with offerings in other markets.

The snowy ones are Lake Mono and Crowley Lake. We arrived just after a very unseasonable snowfall (its pretty dry here in the winter). The dry ones are somewhere north east of lake mead on a very lonely road.

Which mission? Obviously post after the fact.

Yeah, the sterling units are pretty inefficient, and seem to be marginal for cooling. There was a guy over on the sprinter forum who 3d printed an external adapter for a blower/fan, as it was the only way to get full output in arizona summers. We are feeling the grey of winter up here...

Might be worth seeing if there are any pending lawsuits against the company/LLC/individual. No knowledge of this company, but sociopaths/narcissists can be very charming and believable. This is less important if you know your way around a shop, or have the experience to catch BS. More so...

Not having children, and hating desk jobs has cultivated a certain skillset. :ROFLMAO: Plus when my friends and brothers were out chasing girls, I was in the garage trying to keep my car running.

Here are some shots of the sexy new driveshafts. I have been having some irregular and rough torque convert clutch engagement since the trans overhaul. I ordered the sonnax TCC damper valve repair kit. The valve body needs to be removed and split in half to install the retainer ring...

Oh look a MAN! :ROFLMAO: In case you haven't figured it out, the typical cause of the whistling noise is this gap. Its essentially the resonance slot in a whistle, just really big. The easy fix is to lower the light bar, but you don't appear to have a way to do that. Some aluminum...

What thickness of tubing did you go with?