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A little flatbed would be good, it's like an ultra capable Kek truck.

I ended up ordering brand new replacement. As I thought about it, this is the one proper piecenof safety equipment in the truck, get a new one.

Bucket. Really? It's rebuildable? I'll have to look closely it to see if I can short out how to get it apart.

The reason we want it to be electric is two fold. One, my twin brother really likes playing with batteries, two, we have a 38kw solar panels on our roof. There is also an advantage of going DC, you can get a lot more power in a lighter smaller envelope. This weekend we made a lot of progress. We mounted up the winch to the front of the truck. This involved adding a lot of 1/4 plate behind the front bumper. The photo below is just a progress photo, it the final state. Harbor freight 3500lb winch mounted and holding the blower up off the ground. The frame runs the full length of the truck and plugs backwards into the trailer hitch receiver we installed. The mount at the hitch receiver is made from a generic Doorman shackel so that we have a nice rubber bushing back there to allow motion without needing a hard pin joint. One more photo with the blower shoot placed on top. Nex step is to add the side to side stabilizing chains and add some small wheels to the back of the blower to keep the skids from dragging against our shiny new concrete.

I don't have a 3D printer but do have a 4 axis mini CNC mill. Machined a lot of stuff with it over the years. Someday I jump into the 3d printer world, right now it seems Bambu makes the best. We just picked up a few of them at work and they are leagues better than the Ultimakers we have.

I'm real close to Ohio, I live just south of Erie, PA. I have a couple friends in the Cleveland area so I make my way there every once in a while. I too will put the Comanche away the day the salt trucks come out.

This is an awesome little truck. I'm personally a fan of the stock graphics but it also looks great without them. I fixed that throttle cable issue on my truck with a zip tie in the same location clamped into the cable.

I really like this truck, fantastic look with it lowered and the white letter tires complete it.

My suggestion isn't based on experience but you might check the conncections at the ECU, unplug it, contact cleaner and plug it back in.

I'll be curious if this actually reduces noise for you.

This actually is very wise advice. Even better of you take that $1000 and invest it in a CD.

I've never seen one with under hood insulation but it can't hurt to try that product. My understanding is the Comanche and Cherokee hoods are identical other than early ones had a single latch instead of the double on the later ones.

I like the idea, though I think a swap to a 4:1 transfer case would provide the same benefits to me. Even when I'm towing a heavy load on the road, the factory first gear is plenty low enough. It would be epic for crawling.

Samurais are fun! I have a friend with a 1988.5 model, it is one of the most fun ways to zip around town or go to the beach with some friends. It's also the most capable vehicle I've ever driven in the snow, 4x4 in a light weight truck with no power and good snow tires.

Working on mounting up the DC drive motors. Also have all of the batteries built up and have them running a portion of the house off grid with the inverter that will also be used to charge the batteries when they are used for the blower.