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Having attended nearly a dozen 'offroad expo' type shows in the last decade, I can only say, "Cut through the hype, marketing and BS." Talk to current and past owners, ask for documentation on warranty and repairs, check the Better Business Bureau, visit the factory, open panels, pull the...

^^ 2-3 years: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-launch-just-beginning.html

Interior paneling, taken at Overland Expo West in May of 2019. One would think, with their big fancy factory, hundreds of vehicles in the shop and a booming business, they would invest in top-notch fabricators or maybe even a water jet machine to cut their parts. Nah, just drill a hole in the...

In the off road world, specifically the off road racing world, companies such as Corbeau, Mastercraft Safety, PRP, and Recaro offer suspension seats for the likes of rally car racing, Baja/SCORE/BITD style racing, UTV racing and so on. It is presumed that, in a racing application, the seats are...

Being an 'older' model FG, it is possible that transfer case gears are straight cut. In the states, it is common for older cases, such as the venerable NP205, to use straight cut gears right from the, now shuttered, factory. Straight cut gears are stronger than helical cut gears, but...

Your driveshaft alignment will never be correct as long as you have a 'parking break'. Once you upgrade to the now standard 'parking brake', all of your problems will be solved. Driveshaft or propshaft angles are important, as are the pinion and transfer case yoke angles. As noted, there is a...

New York City to San Diego, California, literally one corner of the US to the other, is about 3900 km. A recent cross country trip from the East Coast of the USA to Arizona for the Overland Expo West totalled about 6700 km, round trip, about 30 hours each way on interstate highways at 130 kph...

Truck looks good man, can't wait to see it with the box on it.

No issues that I am aware of and I was on the 2,000 mile (4,200 km) trip, driving it to Arizona. Matt did look at several options for rotating the pinion up and we discussed using shims if the need arose. All good for now and the truck will be back in his shop in a few weeks, so we will check...

"Overlanding" has risen drastically in popularity over the last 7-8 years, and prices along with it. Buy used. NO RV will hold its value and the more exotic/expensive/posh or "high end" you go, the more money you are pissing out the window. Let someone else take the hit. You are used to living...

I am not saying the product is a complete failure. I am saying the practise of covering every square inch of your floor is incorrect. Small pieces should be used to strategically change the resonant frequency of individual panels or sections. This method requires significantly less product...

Dynamat is not insulation and neither of you should have "covered" your cab's interior in it. This only serves to lighten your wallet and change the resonant frequency of the entire cab from one to another. The proper method for damping (not dampening) sound, is to attenuate it using various...

Erik's NPR was driven to the show, where it garnered quite a bit of interest in the VisionX light bar booth. There were zero problems with the truck, despite the lack of scrutineering before leaving on a 5,000 mile road trip. Chris Cordes came by and shot some photos, so you may see the truck...

Send Matt a PM here or call the number in the for sale ad linked on the first page. We will be in the shop, getting the truck ready for the show and will not be open for visits or tours prior to leaving for Flagstaff. Erik's NPR will be back at Matt's the first week in June.

^^^^ Yes, they were ordered from Alcan Spring. They are rated for the weight of the truck with the camper box and include a net 1 inch lift, plus the 5.5" lift gained from the solid axle conversion and spring over. The factory lift block on the I-beam axle was removed.

https://expeditionportal.com/forum/forums/southeast-sponsored-southeast-expedition-society.84 ...four trips on first page. With the high population density in the Southeast and more people moving to Nashville, Asheville, Charlotte, Atlanta and Greenville every second, the opportunities for...

Why would you import and federalize a truck that was readily available in the States? ? 4.0 V6 and slush box and all other specs "seem" to be standard. Maybe I am missing something. GLWS

Check with Bostrom; they make an NPR seat with the suspension in the back, kind of a sliding mechanism, to keep the height down. They may be able to accommodate Fuso or you could have a bracket made for the Fuso base to adapt to the NPR seat. Any competent fab shop can easily do this...

Very nice to see hard numbers on a CoG test, Lance. I presume that was done in FEA and not on a tilt table?

The files Matt posted above are quite large, but can be zoomed in, to see fine details. I was at the shop yesterday and the renderings on the SolidWorks computer in the shop look great. Matt was able to get CAD files from Vision X lights, Warn and Isuzu, so that everything fits perfectly in the...