Tent is on, ladder was damaged in shipping from autoplicity.
@orangefj45 helped me out on two major issues with nothing more than a few texts.
-I called arb before the vendor that I bought the RTT from to make sure they had replacement ladders in stock. They had two on the shelf. I couldn’t buy direct so I called georg and he will drop shop it before I go to big bend next week. Autoplicity will refund me the cost of the new ladder.
-I’ve had problems ever since I broke a motor mount with the truck not staying in 4 low while flexing. My t case linkage was poorly adjusted and rubbing the case causing it to slip out. I initially thought I’d destroyed my rebuilt t case but it ended up being a simple adjustment. Georg affirmed the fact that I probably had an incorrectly adjusted linkage and today I was able to sort it. My shifter home position for 4 low was too close to the passengers side and it would tap the floor and knock it self out.
Up this week:
Brake shoes, new ps pump and line, and felpro intake manifold gasket to be replaced with an oem to stop my final exhaust leak.
Also, I threw on a new voltage regulator and an optima group 34 red top battery. I had the truck not start for the first time ever last week and I went through the paces of diagnosing it. 3 year old battery and the failing voltage regulator causing not enough charge. The truck has never started this quickly. Feels great.
I’m not thrilled about the optima battery, I’ve heard some not so great things. But I do know that I’m pretty much always going to be close to an O’reilly auto parts if it fails. I wanted the x2 or odyssey but I couldn’t get one in the timeframe I needed. We will see how this goes.
The cb wiring is complete, with a firestick on a spring/quick connect, cord routed into the cabin and my midland 75-822 will be here Monday. I’ve also got a nifty mount for it.
