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Looks good Vince. Looks just like mine...although I have to take off my spring when I installed my rack with lights. Before the rack, my antenna would just sway backwards and looked pretty cool. After the rack was added...it changed the air-flow and made the antenna swing side to side hitting the truck itself. So I had to remove the spring. I'll leave it in the back so when I hit a trail I can re-install the spring so I won't break my antenna.


Sweet....look what came in the mail today!! @ramonortiz55 have you gotten yours yet?? IIRC, I ordered mine the day before you asked @MTgirl for the website. Speaking of...I want to give a great big huge "THANK YOU" to both @MTgirl and @RedRunner87. Vince you gave me the first website, which I order from. However, only "Yado" arrived. That's when Miss MTgirl saved my butt and explained what I did wrong and gave me the website again...WooHoo!! Can't wait to get it mounted...then I think I'm going to black everything out?!? Maybe?? Anyway...Thanks again guys

 

Did the blue/red wire mod today. Super cool to be able to turn the locker on in 2wd or 4hi. Also went by the junk yard and picked up some extra strap down points, and an ECT button for something...

I think tomorrow I will try the ABS wire mod...

 

fur something...hmm

 

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idk yet, but it is a lighted switch, and I like those...

 

What is the "ABS Wire" mod?

 

gives you instant rock hard abs

 

Thanks! I added the spring because of all the trees here in CO, definitely don't want to break the antenna on a trail. Sweet glad you finally got your emblem, where are you going to put it?

I am going to do the blue/red wire mod in May! I hate only having the locker in 4lo

 

Don't mean to sound like a complete idiot...but why? What's the purpose for that?

 

Are you talking about the ABS mod? A lot of people don't like off-roading with ABS, having the brakes not going full lock can be bad when off-roading. That is why in a lot of vehicles 4-lo will turn off ABS.

 

Same here in Ohio with all the trees...that's why I said I'm going to just throw the spring in the back until I'm on a trail.

As far as where Sgt Yoda's name badge?? I'm thinking where you put your Vince. I thought yours looked pretty good there on the lift gate. Then I'm thinking of Plasticdiping all the chrome emblems on the lift gate. Wanted to do that a long time ago...just kinda forgot about it.

 

I definitely like the black emblem look.

 

Wow...ok! I didn't even know that was an option to do. I don't think I've ever even heard of this mod. Does anyone have a link to a good write-up on this mod? I'd like to read up on it...and maybe do it myself. Have you already done it @RedRunner87 ?

 

I haven't, if I remember correctly as soon as you put it in 4-Lo and turn the E-Locker on ABS turns off. I am doing the E-Locker mod in May when I head out to my buddies house in AZ.

 

You should do it yourself. Looks great...I'm not a big fan of Chrome...I even painted my chrome rear bumper black. I painted the front one also...before I got my Shrockworks bumper.

 

Everything is black on mine except for the bumpers. Did all the emblems and flares when I first got it. I might do the rear bumper in May as well, since I am not sure when I will be getting a new rear bumper.

 

Well if no one has a link to one of these write-ups...I'll just do a Goggle search and see that comes up. Kinda anxious to read up on this mod. Can't believe I've never heard of it.

 

Sorry...I was going by your avatar. Hey, my wife is going out to Colorado for work in March. She will be working Greeley...about an hour north of Denver. I'm thinking about coming out with her to goof off and do some sightseeing.

 

Oh dude....thank you. I'll bookmark this and read up on it later.

 

That is the only chrome on my Runner...might plasti-dip the rear bumper who knows. I will buy a couple cans since I have to touch up the flares after my accidents lol. Greeley is nice, small town. I used to live 30 minutes from there, it is very close to Fort Collins. If she has the change she should go up to FoCo, really cool town. Downtown is pretty nice.