What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Beauty!!

Torn between this one or Relentless Fab hybrid. Waiting till next black friday to empty my pockets again.

 

That is SWEET!

Those Grill Lights are badass! lol

Can I post one of your photos on another thread about Lights in the Grill? lol

 

RF one is so good too, I was really torn between all of them, but I wanted to remain as light as possible. I like the rock runner, not in love with it though. Hence the tweaks. I'll get it there though, I wasn't quite ready to make my own front bumper from scratch lol.

Absolutely feel free! These are it on Amazon, I've got a custom 3d printed clip that clips them onto the grill next to the letters, it's not an off the shelf thing unfortunately. https://amzn.to/4gt3a9F

 

Very nice & tight. Did you weld that bullbar on yourself? Nice skill.

I'm confused. Not sure if I can start whining now, because they're Raptor lights, or not. Set me straight.

 

Here's a 3 for 1 guys n gals.

Picked up some 20' fence pipe at home depot, spotted a taco, picked up a latte, and replaced rusted bent horizontal on side fence gates.

 

Yep! it's just 1.5in DOM tubing and I bent the one side and realized it was pretty spot on for how I envisioned it. So I bent the other side, cut it down about 1.5 inches and tack welded it on. I drove around for all of the past day and a half with it tack welded to make sure TSS wasn't going to throw a fit and then I finished welded it up last night, no issues.

Man half the reason I keep raptor lights on my truck is just to stir up folks, I think they look good but every time someone makes a comment, I'm like well now I'm definitely not taking them off.

 

That's the way to do it!!!!!!!!!!

 

Went in for 20k mile service and they said my battery was bad and got a brand new one under warranty. To be honest there was no sign of an issue.

 

No I don’t.

 

Keep an eye on your alternator.

 

how did you get the lights on the inside hood? I like it alot

 

Hadn’t been on for a bit but I had my front brake pads and rotors replaced. I managed to break the bolt head for the mount clip. Needed to extract it and found a SS bolt, same size to put in until I buy the new bolt

 

Hey thanks! I purchased the Rigid Industries 40025 Rock Light Kit. It came with 6. I used one of the included bases as a template to drill holes. I chose the "raised areas" of the hood so I could fish the wires through the hood towards the hinges. I tucked the wires as much as possible and ran them back to my Spod controller near the battery. I used a small diameter fiberglass rod to fish the wire through the hood. It was, kind of, a PITA but not impossible and it looks pretty clean IMHO. I was gonna do 4 lights but, it was so bright with 4, you'd need a welding hood to wrench when they were lit. It was stupid bright.
FWIW, the screws are titanium...because race car...

 

Installed Ride 2.5 rear shocks and Accutune’s u-bolt flip kit with extended bump stops. Looks real nice next to my caved in bedside…

 

Mine is a '23 off road too. OEM battery totally died in a sub zero day a year ago. Got it replaced no problem on warranty. Seems like there may have been a batch or more manufactured with defect. If even only one cell is bad the whole thing will gradually weaken. Driver can't tell until one day, no/nuthing power.

 

I replaced my OEM once under warranty and then that one was getting weak so I installed a Motomaster Eliminator. That one died as well but was covered under a 5yr warranty so it was replaced for free.
You can really tell when it gets cold as to how fast the engine cranks even after a few days of sitting that it is going bad.

 

Wondering what this red neoprene doo-hickey is on your brake fluid reservoir?

 

Mine doesn't have that. Maybe a sensor setup to send a message to warning system that level is low.

 

haha. 2K2 and canuck guy. Its a throw back to my ricer days building Subarus. During hard braking, at the race track, brake fluid reservoirs can weep. You will see quite a few companies making cylinder socks to absorb any seeping fluid. (Mostly JDM companies. Takata, Motul, Blitz, Greddy, Spoon, Nismo, Mugen, etc.)
Lots of rice rockets run them too.
This is a spare I had in my Subaru horde after (6) cars. It's just for fun and a throw back to some fun times for me.

 

It's a brake fluid reservoir sock. They're designed to keep the fluid from getting exposed to UV on motorcycles and catch spilled fluid, but the Honda guys and some others have put them on their cars. I don't think they do anything under a hood, but they might actually help if the reservoir is exposed to the elements.