Recent content by type3LMTV

Power steering support bracket is in place and tight. I also made the switch to a pair of group 31 batteries, ditched the cutoff switch and the lbcd and shaved another 80lbs off the truck. The PO had installed three different batteries with different cca and reserve capacity ratings and the...

Thanks for the description, I should be able to find it by that. Or find that it's not there. The alternator bolts are all tight and have their nordlock washers on. This truck was a national guard vehicle and only shows 3700miles. Most of it's issues have been from rubber parts drying out...

You can't see them? Damn, I guess asking for a pic of the bracket would be hard then. What does the bracket look like? Is it just a steel strap with a couple holes in the ends? Or is it a cast iron chunk? I'm getting the driveshafts serviced in a couple weeks and I checked all the fasteners I...

The back of the bed got 13" lower this weekend. It's 280lbs lighter and should be much easier to work with.

More weekend work! The truck went on a diet. I got the tanks moved back 20" and secured to the bed again, now using 1.25" angle iron. This should keep the DOT off my back when I get weighed with it full of water. Where they were before put me about 600lbs over my front axle max. Now I'll be...

Does anyone know what this switch is for? It looks like it got added on but still has a mil-spec connector.

The cab bushings helped a lot, got rid of a lot of clunking and now I definitely get the air ride feel from the whole cab. To be fair I think the cab air bags never got inflated. I just left them the way they were from the previous owner until I started going through stuff and then realized...

Dang! My lower bushings were fine, I just cleaned a lubed them. The uppers were the ones that looked like yours. A chisel and some patience, then a wire wheels, then some brake cleaner and a rag and the mount looked good as new. Where are you in Texas? I'd love to meet up and see someone...

It seems to be temperature related. I drove the truck 20 minutes to work this morning and the CTIS seemed normal: blinking light on highway when first started, no other lights, valves cycled for the first couple minutes and then highway light went solid and I couldn't hear the valves any more...

I got to spend some time with the truck this weekend. Replaced the cab bushings and the swaybar shackle bushings (which were completely melted), added a switch to the M wire on the ctis box to gain the ability for 81psi on the highway, tightened or replaced every hose clamp in the cooling...

I've already gotten the TMs and have been going through the operators manual. The bushings aren't terrible actually. The front cab bushings are 100% gone and one of the rear swaybar shackle bushings is mostly gone, other than that it's doing pretty well. I found a couple of loose air lines at...

Here's some pics. I had to drive it up the little ramp in the complex where my shop is. I definitely need to find a bigger ramp.

Hello everyone. I've been lurking here for a while and just bought a 2003 LMTV converted as a wildland brush truck. It's got 600gal of water on the back and I'm going through, fixing it up and adding a lot of storage. It will go to Arizona for the fire season this year and I'd like to make it...