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The QT gets a bad rap unjustly. It's actually a very very stout xfer case. You can probably find most wear items still but the one thing you wont find new is the Sun Gear. It's what the output shaft of the transmission plugs into and it has a very course tooth cut having IIRC only 10 teeth...

I don't know, I must be doing something wrong. My first 4x4 was a 1979 F150 and I wheeled that thing from California to Maine, and a handful of 4x4s since and in all that time I recall needing a shovel one time, in the desert outside Vegas. And t didn't do me a dang bit of good. Still took...

I was in your shoes, with a city born and raised Japanese wife. The biggest key thing to make this successful is to make your wife's camping life easy, especially as it relates to the young ones. They're enough work at home, put them "in the field", and things can become exponentially more...

Ford-trucks.com, the Excursion section. Chock full of slavering Excursion fan-boys who've done all kinds of interesting modifications. A wealth of info.

I'm pretty fond of e military style battery terminals. A big standard crimp on lug for the cable, bolt that to the terminal, which clamps to the battery post. Makes hooking multiple batteries and/or electrical connections a snap. All the hoods I've looked at, even the stockers in junk yards...

It probably won't much matter in the long run. If you end up like most Jeep people, before you're done it'll be more aftermarket than original anyway. Jeeps are like automotive Legos for big boys. There's a local Jeep aftermarket supplier 30 minutes from my House that I could walk into and...

That's borderline red neck genius right there. Ridiculously obvious, yet it never crossed my mind. Makes me borderline red neck retarded?

You've sad that a couple times now But you continue to hang stuff out back on the dropped gate. On a short trailer like you have with the bulk of the payload area behind the axle, it isn't going to take much for the tail to start wagging the dog. First place you should start loading in your...

Where'd you find the truck? What's visible looks good!

OH, and I'm sooo ripping off that maps in frame idea. Don't hate. I'm not creatively challenged, I have no creative genes at all, so I have to thieve my way through. :)

Don't be too bent about going back to that job. There's a few things to be said about "working for the man", the biggest being that at the end of the day you can punch out and leave it behind. Start your own biz and I guarantee you that won't be the case. Be your own boss is a myth. Every...

Make it work and you'll find out. Just cruising it is quiet but when you load it up and it has to get into that power band she starts to sing. It makes its power up high and doesn't mind hanging out there when it's under load. It's one of the reasons I got rid of mine. An 8.5k trailer up...

I always had good luck with the AGR stuff for my Jeep projects. I would imagine they've got something that will work on the vans.

I think you did just fine. IMO some folks get "sold" a blank slate by people that haven't done a dang thing to the interior of their junk, pass that off as some kind of advantage, and then charge top dollar anyway. Your rig looks good.

Good grief. Is Scooby snoozing in the back? :)

Sweet baby Jesus w/Tom Cruise voodoo magic, what the hell is that?

Honestly? Cool but probably overkill and money wasted. Pretty much the same with the dual shocks some put on. Unless you're blasting down the washboard and really putting those front shocks to work, most rigs will never tax their single shocks let alone duals. When you do your...

My guess is a lot of these owners have more money than....experience let's say, and believe their new big ol' 4x4 can do just about anything, right up to that moment when she goes over.

I figured it 2 ways. First way: 1020 profile (1"x2") 84" long, fastened at each end with 250# centered load and 2020 profile the same way. The 1020 had .250 of deflection in the center and the 2020 had a bit over .100. If you lay the 1020 on its long side deflection goes up to just shy of...

Don't you feel bad. I know sometimes my sense of humor only makes sense in my head. :)