New England B.S. Thread

I haven't used FM or AM radio at all. I'm sure I'd have a shit show with those. I use HID in the halogen projectors, those are "okay", I wouldn't put them in my reflector fogs Only thing I don't like about LED housings is they're always the same color. I like to use a whiter light in the summers and a yellow light in the winters for the snow. White light in the snow blows. If I could get a "switchback" LED setup, I would probably use it.

If I tower a lot, for sure. Modern diesels give me the heebie jeebies about reliability with how many systems they have. For how much grunt that thing has...Yeah. I don't tow enough, if I went with a ford it would either be the ranger with a single turbo on the 2.3 or the 5.0, but most likely just an NA anyway. Honestly, when the Tacoma goes the 3.5NA F150 has my eye.

 

Shhhhhhhh don't give up our business model! People are gonna find out!

I loveeeee those! Literally every other bulb in that headlight is accessible. High beams? No problem! Corner marker light? Pshh such a breeze! Low beam bulb?

 

I had to change a bulb on the outback, it was not fun. Probably took me hours. The kicker was getting the letter a couple weeks later about the headlight recall.

 

Clutch was probably easier to do

 

I blame the engineers for a lot of it. A lot of them probably have never changed a light bulb on their car and dont understand the concept of being able to work on a vehicle and being able to do certain things easily/somewhat easily. I see it in my job pretty regularly where a part just won't work but its already gotten to the point of a 3D model, programmed, with my machine setup and material on my bench

 

That's why I've always had a good set of yellow fogs on everything I run. I've got yellow covers for my Pro lamps, but I run Hella XYs in the winter in the stock fogs.

This was my solution when I had OEM HID.
IMG_1140 by Mike M, on Flickr

 

Bitchin!

Yeah yellow fogs would help, but I like the low beams. Throws more light than fogs at least in the mazda and the tacoma they took 4 seconds to switch out, so not bad to deal with twice a year.

Hey now. Engineers are.....

Yeah, no, you're spot on. I work in QA so I do drawing review AFTER it gets through design AND manufacturing review. We have a good team now, but a few times I've had to take the design guys onto the floor (scary for them, they have to put on steel toes!!!!!) and ask them how the living HELL do you expect me to measure that dimension?

"Just use calipers!"

....You dimensioned it to the millionth, 1:10, seriously? Calipers? Favorite is hidden cavities and whatnot. "Hey, let's see if we can magically machine this now, after we were told we can't 15 times".

And MEs, I've had to ask them how they plan to mill/lathe something. They tell me "on the mill". I hang my head in shame and mutter "follow me, let's teach you how a mill works".

You should have time running machines before you start making SOPs for how to run them, etc.

 

Yup exactly. I had gotten a print before where the bright engineer made a through hole near an edge of the profile of the part. The through hole would have been fine by itself but it was a threaded hole... So after threading the hole it blew out the side of the part. Why? Cause this bright engineer only left .0005" of material after putting threads in to the outside profile of the part. Needless to say I stopped there and they called over to the other place. The engineer came over a few days later to learn why his part wouldn't work.

One of the more memorable ones right there

 

My Sierra LED headlights are amazing, best headlights I've ever had on a vehicle. As long as whatever holds them in doesn't rot out in short order.

I'm test driving an F250 this weekend, crew cab STX with the 6.2L.

 

I don’t even try doing anything without watching a YouTube video first. There’s always some stupid clip that i’ll miss and break off.

I think LEDs can out perform high end halogens. At least in my housing, the LEDs kicked the shit out of any of the halogen options.

Nice! MPGLOL. Careful with the 7.3, the first gen 10 speed has some issues. There’s a gen 2 out already.

 

I figured it would be easy. Just headlights.. My older wrx was cake to change the bulbs so I expected the outback to be the same.

Boy was i wrong.

 

Have you read the testing thread? Only the Hikari Ultras are close. It falls into the trap of a ton of foreground light versus the distance projection.

Plus, the Jeeps are apparently super sensitive to flickering if the replacement lamps aren’t perfect.

 

This one has the 6.2L with the 8spd. It's a 2020. Anything to look out for?

Edit: Ooops, I mean the 6spd.

 

LOL who only leaves 5 tenths anyway? WTF.

I was able to find a YT video of someone doing a window actuator on my specific year jeep, door, and everything. There's so much stuff out there for DIYers. Enough to get into trouble.

Yeah the 10 speed had some issues, I think, with the NA engines and people hammering on them, either driving hard or just using them for their intended purpose. There haven't been much issues in the ranger because people don't load them down to 10k and drive them hard, etc. That's my take on it. But the SD has a different 10 speed, so I might be talking out my ass.

 

Lol yea they ended up adding like .150" to that side

 

I think those are pretty solid. You might have some shock going from a pretty loaded Sierra to an STX, though. You see a ton of them around and they look nice (mostly an appearance package) but they're pretty bare-bones trucks.

 

Yeah I'm going to have trouble with that. Hopefully towing with it will make up for it.

 

Rock solid power plant. I liked my ‘18 more than my ‘19 even though, on paper, they were the same truck. The 6.2 and the 6 speed are a great combo. If you go to the 350, there’s a 10 speed option for the 6.2 also. It’s strong but it’s certainly not a Prius... pay attention to all the packages available. There a lot of different gvwr packages, tow packages, axle ratios, camper package and snow plow packages available. For commuting, i’d make sure you get 3.73 rear and don’t get the snow plow and camper package as they beef up the suspension and will make it ride rougher.

Feel free to message me if you have any questions about the packages or the ones i’ve owned.

 

They all seem to have the snow plow prep up here. I may have to order what I want here.

 

Might be fine, it just comes with heavier springs in the front end. With the 6.2, it could end up being fairly stiff. The snow plow package springs seem to be geared towards supporting the 6.7 with a plow hanging off the front end. My 6.7 rides much better than my old 6.2 did, enough so that I haven't swapped the shocks on the new truck. With the 6.2, I swapped over to Rancho 9000XLs and it helped a lot. Fox makes another good option to replace the stock shocks. The Motorcraft shocks, to me, seemed hilariously overpowered, the new shocks helped that out, so did dropping the tire pressure to about 45 when unloaded.