Skootter14's S/C’d Locked Long Bed Sport

I replaced the battery and it was still not working. Used the cable ever since.

 

Sucks the wireless went out. The guy told me of numerous similar stories

 

So much nicer to just walk 50-75 feet, put a tree saver around a tree, hook the line up and pull yourself out vs having to dig a ton of snow/mud, flinging shit everywhere and hoping you get juuuuussssttt enough traction to get out.

 

You drink as much mountain dew as I drink beer.. not sure if that's good for either of us hahaha

Nice progress man. Excited for Oct?

 

Yea man! I was actually looking at dates and I think I’m gonna leave the 16th.

You better not bail! Haha

 

I'll be there el Capitan

 

Got this in the mail today



@DTFtacoma great product! Now I get to figure out how to fit a winch in this bumper haha

all in time for Moab!

 

Decided to start making the mounts for the inter cooler resi and the pump that I’m gonna relocate in prep for the new bumper/winch fab project.

This mount is to flip around the resi so the hoses run “better” in the engine bay and will prep the new route for the hose to the pump. Nothing fancy, but will be functional (and painted of course)

 

Finally took the time to make the mounts for both the resi and intercooler pump. I went back and forth quite a bit on how "good" I should make the mounts. I ended up not half-assing it, which ended up taking a full day to do this project.

Here is the final product for the resi mount. I ended up notching two sections out: 1 for the electrical connections on the ARB compressor and another for the blue rear locker hose.


This mount enabled me to resposition the resi like it should go, oriented the same as if it were located on the driver side wheel well.


For those that saw how the hoses ran before, you will see this is a drastic difference in cleanliness AND the hose going into the resi is not running beside the header on the passenger side! haha (@White lightning boosted)


For the Pump, I was getting close to just using self tapping screws and drilling into a piece to mount the 2 rubber clamps and call it a day. Then I thought maybe take a little more time and mount a bracket to this yellow plug that already had its own mount and seem sturdy...as I was going to unscrew one of the bolts holding this yellow clip/sensor on, I thought it could potentially be an airbag sensor since there was on located symmetrically on the driver side. So I took a pic of it, ran inside and googled the numbers on the sensor and sure enough it was the airbag sensor. This is where I decided to not jeopardize the work or the safety of the vehicle since my family still rides in the truck and it is a DD. I scrapped everything I was thinking and buckled down to make a mount just for the pump. you will see it is still near the sensor, but does not contact the mount or sensor in any way. I feel much better about this set up than my original idea: sandwiching an "L" shaped piece of sheet metal between the sensor and mounts for the airbag, and calling it done. I felt vibrations from that could mess with the sensor and possibly trigger it while driving.


In the pic, you can see the yellow airbag sensor and the mount I was going to use. Instead, I took the time to drill through the entire support bracket, bought 2 2.5" x 1/4" grade 8 bolts to fix the mount to the "radiator sub support" (??) bracket. This made the mount VERY solid and I felt much better about my decision after taking the time to do this.


3 coats of paint/primer combo I figured would be sufficient.




Here the pump is test fitted to make sure the height would be right while having enough room for the new bumper frame horns AND room for the winch.


It looks like a perfect fit.


Final placement with the hoses cut to fit and secured


This shows how the new routing of the hose could be direct to the pump with no kinks and an overall cleaner job.


Here is the new routing of the hose from pump to LTR. Before, I had about 2' of excess hose sagging down on the bumper and it was awful. Now, nothing hangs below and I have room for the winch.


Everything works great with zero issues. Glad I took the time to do what I thought was a more "right" job.

 

Also, got this in the mail. Thanks @NorthwestCruiser for the heads up on the reduced price on Amazon.



@Kappes03 its worth the 35$ man (if its still on sale) and I think will be better than the CBs for Moab

 

Happy birthday man

 

Yea what he said happy birfday

 

thank you gents, I appreciate it...just another day in the week haha

 

Bull. Celebrate by yourself if you need to.... kick at least one back

 

A peak of what’s in the works

 

Groovy!

 

This qualifies as a bumper...right?

 

After driving around with 1 busted mount on my taillight for a few years, and busting the second of 2 mounts, I figured it was time to pony up the money for new ones.







I didn’t realize I was smoking taillights with window tint before it was cool. Now they come smoked in the plastic. So much easier

 

Slowly coming together and almost done. Lots of lessons learned