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battery cables and battery install looks real good. as far as a lead fuseable ling goes, I think that the lead battery terminals would melt at the same time. I really don't want to discuss how the brand new optima batteries ended up with no top posts:D

cab/box mounts I was looking around under one of the monster custom sleepers and it looked like it was mounted on moryde suspension blocks with a panhard bar to control side to side movement it was mounted independent from the cab. If I was building a truck, I think that fastening the box...

The high end stretch coach converters use 16k front suspensions, research shows that the larger than 12k front axles all use the same main beam part number, 16,18,20k, the spindles and bearings are probably all the same for these axles also. the brakes,hubs, wheel offset and tires are capacity...

I would look around and take it to a spring/suspension specialty shop and get a second opinion from them, typically they will be a shop that makes their living just working on suspensions and building and rebuilding springs

think about how you are going to mount the door and install the trim inside and out as well as what about a screendoor installation. I,m not tryin to be negative but loking at the dificulties of installing a large house type door, if you could find a source for the aluminum trim/frame extrusions...

Dave; We spent 3 full days touring and talking with the rv manufacturers between Elkhart and Ft. Wayne. The rv plants are definitely more production oriented than the conversion places, everyone builds some of the parts/process and outsource some of them to be cost effective. I also am in the...

I apologise, it's Showhauler that subs out the floor and basement frames, Last Oct, I factory toured Haulmark, Renegade, Showhauler, ARI custom sleepers, ICT custom sleepers and 3 trailer plants as well as the surplus outlets in the Elkhart area. Some of the info gets into the wrong mental file...

Don; The new Haulmarks that I saw all had the coach floor and basement framing built and mounted by a sub contractor and they were raised off of the truck frame rails by about 8'', haulmark then installs the subfloor and builds the wall and roof framing and installs the waste tanks, slideout...

I went thru the haulmark factory in early october and the new units that I saw had tanks that were mounted ahead of the rear axle, above the truck frame and below the floor structure, about 24 '' wide,4 to 8'' deep with a 24'' deep sump on the road side, IIRC they are 65 or 70 gal each, with a...

when I built my 4x4 toy, I bought a bulk box of GMC rear leaf spring bushings from energy suspension and used them to mount the 10 point rollcage and body. Poly bushings are reasonably priced if you buy direct from the supplier and take the tie to look them up buy their dimensions instead of...

IIRC Haulmark is using 3 identical waste tanks, black plastic, 1 black and 2 for grey, they looked to be about 2 ft wide and fit all the way across the coach with a large sump that used most of the basement space on the right side of the coach

I spent 3 days last october in the Elkhart area going thru rv manufacturers and truck conversions company's and everyone was using black plastic waste tanks and white plastic fresh water tanks. shorts

Ok, after seeing the hitch, I'd go with the GCVW of 40k for the coach including the tongue weight of your trailer of choice. with a federal weight limit of 80k that means a trailer capacity of 40k plus the 10%tongue weight on the truck.GCVW of the trailer and load. All of this is based on the...

contrary to the popular practice of putting basement boxes behind the axle and close to the ground, I think that the rear boxes should be kept above or at least no lower than the bottom of the rear bumper to protect the sheelmetal from road rash, it's going to take a substantial amount of...

another way to look at this, 36580 axle capacity +10% = approximately 40k gross combined weight of the chassis, coach and load. It's probably time to call the people that installed the coach and ask them how they figured the GCWR

I'll bet a dollar for a donut that the 40,000 gross combined weight sticker was generated by the coach builder,not the chassis manufacturer and it only allows for some type of lightweight class 2 hitch assembly that was installed on the bumper almost as an afterthought instead of a quality hitch...

Bob, I'm glad that you are comfortable with confused, I've been told that I'm both hopeless and beyond help. My understanding/interpretation is that the GAWR (gross axle weight ratings) as determined and specified by both the component and truck manufacturer are added together to determine the...

As I read this thread it appears that their is some confusion about weight rating and towing capacity and combined gross weight. I interpret the axle weight to be just like it sounds, max allowed weight for each axle, steer,drive/drives and trailer. the coach can weigh up to the max combined...

andy the electric heaters use the same principal of a monster burner, only it's 3 or 4 chambers with seperate elements in series so you get a continous temp rise as the water flows. If your electric heater required 30 or 50 amp dedicated service you would definately be in trouble in a RV. The...

water heater I have a tankless waterheater in the house and absolutely love it, my concerns in a mobile application would be will you have enough water flow to trigger the burner and also fuel consumption, when the burner lights up it's a blowtorch. The real savings is that it doesn't hold...

just thinking about three airs on the roof, you might want to look into something more like the ducted residential units and mount it under the floor,it would probably use a lot less electricity, you also might be able to set it up to run off of the trucks A/C compresser when running down the road

you could make an airjack out of an airbag, just a simple base and frame to keep it in place, put it under the tongue of the trailer or the hitch and put the air to it

no, pullout staircase and landing with the stairs next to the truck and the landing under the door

If you don't have the equipment or ability to safely jack and block the body up so you can drive one truck out and back the other one under the body find someone with the knowledge and equipment to lift the body and set it on the new truck safely. If everything is unbolted and ready to go 15...

somewhere I saw a DIY conversion that had steps and a landing on drawer slides that slid out like an open drawer to use and in like a closed storage bay to travel,