Orange County CAF's: up to no good

I was wondering why I woke up at 9 rather than my usual 8 o'clock. Forgot about the time change.

 

What sucks is if a cop pulls you over and you TRY to slip that same line "Everyone was doing 75+... I'd be the hazard doing 65!"... LOL!!! Believe though, I hear ya!!!

 

I didn't even notice that it was time change until you guys mention it lol. Morning everyone

 

I just try to look like everyone else is going slightly faster than me when I see the bacon arrive on scene. Bright side about our trucks? Lightening up the skinny pedal bleeds momentum real fast!

Although a race muffler makes SOUNDING like you aren't in a hurry real hard.

 

Anyone want to run some trails out of Ortega Hwy?

 

Thanks bro but no can do!Gotta start getting ready for JT!Would sure like to do Main Divide to Indian Truck Trail again real soon!

 

Wait the time changed??

Wrong meme man!

That's one thing I miss about my 4runner slows down real nicely. Also could downshift if I wanna slow down without my brake lights turning on

 

Ditto, it's thrown my whole day off shoot haha

 

Got some shit done this weekend, rear shocks rebuilt, light bar mounted, repainted grill. Too bad I can't fix the clicking just yet. That'll be a doozy

 

That area looks familiar like i've seen other TW members trucks parked there.Is there some sort of TW hotel/motel that i'm not aware of!?

 

Not all asphalt is made equal, but yeah, I've heard the stories haha. & I had no other choice at that point

 

It's 2wd w/ locker

Thanks for the offer; if I need any help I'll definitely shoot you a message!

 

Haha like the truck in front of mine. Haha. Just a plain ol neighborhood

 

LOL!Seriously though that same spot/ area looks like i've seen other TW members trucks there besides the red one in pics from TW forum.Oh well!Congrats on the work you accomplished on "Ton Ton" your truck!

 

@sladesdaddy1022, @ODNAREM, @TXpro4X4 and anyone else

I just wanted to show a few pics of the mounting hole of the CBI bracket. It is a little bit oversized for the 5/16" bolt that comes with the OZ-USA 4D light pod. So I did the following:



For this pic, I put the bolt through to try to show the oversize difference.


The next pic shows a 1/4" rubber grommet that you can get at HomeDepot. As you can see, the bolt that came with the OZ-USA light pod now fits pretty snug!!! It now "centers" the bolt. I didn't care too much for the bolt to have wobbly room with just tightened pressure to hold it in place!? So I came up with the grommet solution to center the bolt.

The final pic has a work towel wrapped around so that I don't drop small nuts\bolts down behind and\or into the trucks body paneling!!! The towel would block or give me a better chance of not losing mounting hardware within the body paneling of the truck!!! This came to be because that is almost exactly what happened, but I got lucky and it fell just underneath the front fender!!! I still had to take part of the body work off of the truck just to reach it!!! Sooooo, do this if you are working in a similar situation!!!


BTW, the hardware that they send only had the bolt, split washer, and nut? I bought some stainless steel 5/16" flat washers and 5/16" split washers from HomeDepot.

So assembled like this:
1) put 1/4" grommet into bracket
2) put pod yoke type mounting bracket on top w/ bolt
3) started threading the bolt through the rubber grommet (a little tight but it can be done)
4) once the bolt was all the way through, I put the 5/16" flat washer on
5) then the 5/16" split washer on
6) then the nut that came with the bracket itself
7) tightened down hand tight
8) then I mounted the light pod onto the yoke mount type CBI Fabrication bracket.

It wasn't a big deal because as you tighten down the bolt, it didn't matter if the bolt had "play" within the hole of the bracket. I just didn't like the idea that there was no "shim"!!! Anyways, I hope this gives someone an idea on how to "center" the bolt if they wanted to??? It worked out pretty good!!!

 

Looks good Randy, Great Job