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These are the guys that rebuilt my dads truck. We took a Moab trip to try it out.

Yeah, it doesn't look so bad in these pics but the frame was bent pretty badly on the front. It rolled head first off a 25ft ledge and landed on the front "bumper" completely verticle then flipped on to the top. The engine, trans, transfer case where ripped lose and smashed forward while the...

One of the other H1s on the Moab trip tumbled off the Moab Rim trail onto the road below. Fortunately, the injuries to the people were relatively minor but the truck was totaled.

LOL. Between his comentary and the hilarous lady and her dog you can hardy pay any attention to what's going... in the few frames he actually points the camera at the truck.

Much better shot from someone who had a camera instead of a phone. lol

Forgive the camera work. My son decided just to watch (and film) me crawl very slowing up Hell's Gate. I shouldn't have shown him all the videos of rigs tipping over or rolling backwards down the hill. BTW, this was my very first day of driving off road... ever. LOL. What a place to learn.

Some more Moab shots. My 8 year old spent every opportunity to “hang out” on top of the truck. Especially when he had to wait around for the adults to get going.

I’ll have to figure out how to post videos. Here’s a couple of pictures. I didn’t get many... cause I was driving.

I’ll throw some up soon.

Duh... I should have thought about that for a minute.

Thanks! We took it for a shake down run on trails in and around Moab and it was great! It's certainly wide on some trails but other than that it pretty much crawled it's way over everything we asked it to.

Lol, seriously. This truck has family history and I've been enjoying this rebuild. It's probably not the ideal overland platform in my mind but I figure if my dad could drive it up and down North and South America it will probably get me where I want to go.

What's BAT?

Next: custom brush guard, light bar and rear bumper/which housing.

We’re not doing a ton of work on the interior yet. Installing a switch panel to go with in SPod. Cleaning up 20 years of wear and tear and reupholster the seat in leather. The original cloth seats had seen all the mileage they could take.

Replaced starter motor with newer, heavier and better sealed version. Found a crack in the starter motor mount too. That was only visible after it was media blasted. Old trucks have unseen wear. We were fortunate to find this in the shop and not on the trail.

Installed an SPod box to control the new switch panel in the cabin for lights and lockers.

I’m inclined towards the Duramax/Allison version. I’d definitely want to keep it diesel. Seems the Duramax would be easier to service and find parts. Reading up on it a bit the P400 is a simpler replacement which would much less expensive but I think in the long run the Duramax seems like a...