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Originally Posted by hamboner
To have such a nice truck that exhaust pipe looks pretty hideous!
Considering the exhaust pipe is completely hidden, I don't see where the issue is...
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Is there not a way to dump the exhaust where it will be hidden?
There is. Along the frame rail, where I have it now. I may end up painting it with high temp black paint, at which point it will blend in even better. With a trailer hooked to the truck, you'd have to climb underneath to even see it at this point.
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I just can't see someone screwing up the good looks of a truck like that by jamming a window unit in a sleeper window!
It's hardly "jammed". A lot of planning went into the placement of the AC unit. I chose the location because of the fact that I could put it back to stock quite easily.
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You never cease to amaze me Rev. at some of the $&!+ you come up with! With as much money as you spent on that truck a couple a months ago you could have the best APU on the market and could have probably put a big sleeper on it too!
Really? Here I thought that the "best APU on the market" cost about $11,000, and large sleepers cost between $80,000 and $100,000. I wasn't aware that I spent between $91,000 and $111,000 on the work I had done.
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If you put a louvered cover on that condenser you are going to drastically reduce the cooling suface area of that unit and it is not going to work half as good as it does now.
Considering the cover will be approx. 2" away from the unit, I fail to see how that is possible.
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I hate to be so critical, but IMO you just ruined the looks of that truck. I would hate to hear that thing rattling in the window going down the road.
I'd hate to hear it rattling in the window too. It's a good thing that it doesn't, but rather is secured with 8 bolts, and is mounted to a 1/4" steel table.
As I've stated on several occasions, this is the solution that works for me. I don't have $9000 - $11,000 to invest in an APU system at this time, but I still needed to come up with an idling solution. This idling solution works for me. Will the window unit become permanent? I don't know. I've already taken the AC apart to see how it is put together, and have contemplated separating the condenser from the main unit, so I can install the condenser on the back of the sleeper, and the main unit under the bunk. But I lack the time to do that at this point.
One thing I pride myself on is the fact that when I experiment with things like this, I make sure that they are capable of being disassembled and returned to stock. This is no different than when I installed the seats from a 64 Impala. I could have this entire APU system off the truck in about a half a day, and you'd never know it was ever there.