Florida B.S. Thread

ha thats funny

dont worry worlds not ending

 

oh look, we're still alive

 

Ahhh I just got a quote from cbi .... I'm gunna be ordering parts real soon!

 

sweet

 

nice! jumping in on that slider deal?


i just got a quote from armor tech off road.....i'm not gonna be ordering soon

 

No, no sliders yet. But got a quote on custom tube bumpers front and rear, but i'm on the fence about ordering them before my lift. But what the hell I might cause its such a good deal and I want custom stuff so no one has the same bumper as me.

 

very nice, i've liked all of teh custom cbi stuff i've seen. make sure you get a winch plate of some sort on the front bumper though, weather or not you want one now. if you get into wheeling enough, at some point you'll want a winch

 

ahh I covered everything, winch up front low pro tube bumper with no stinger I just have a couple other things to ass like a step on the rear bumper and hitch.

 

Trailer update


bent the piss out of the tongue on the trailers trial run, so i cut off the old one and built a whole new setup



new steel. thicker walled and boxed



some of the decent welds.....








front end all done (edit: not completely, you can see a couple spots that hadn't been welded yet)


welded to the frame. some optical illusion is going on in this picture, because the cross brace is not actually off like the picture makes it look



taillight guards






kept the turn signal visible fromt he side






don't think i'll have any more broken lights

 

Awesome man sucks you bent it but Hey gotta test it for the weak points

 

yeah, i kinda figured that was one of the weaker areas, but i expected it to last a little longer lol. oh well, now it should be good for a while.

 

Anyone to the DTRL mod to their truck? I want to but the steps look complicating.

 

i think there are a couple different ways to do it, which one are you looking at?

i believe there is an OEM install, that utilizes a toyota relay and maybe some other stuff. the simpler way (that i used), was to splice into the parking lights (small orange light on the outer edge of the headlight), and run that to the turn signal. the bulbs used in out turn signals are a dual filiment, meaning they have two power in slots, and one ground out in the factory plug. trucks that don't come with daytime running lights only have a power in and ground out, meaning that the second filiment is not being used, and there is an emply slot in the plug.

steps i used:
1) splice into the positive cable going to the parking light.
2) remove little rubber piece plugging the blank spot in the turn signal.
3) strip the other end of the wire that you just spliced into the parking light
4) shove that end into the unplugged blank spot in the turn signal.
5) when it's making good cantact and working (this means test it), silicone around the ner wire to both hold the wire in place, and keep the plug watertight.


the only difference in these two methods is that when you turn them on with this method, both the small parking lights and the dtrls are on, whereas with the oem way, only the dtrls are on.

i can take a picture later of the plug on mine if it makes it easier to visualize what i'm talking about.

 

I would appreciate it alot! I'm just iffy about wiring, i'd get some hid's but dont want to wire it myself cause im terrible lol.

 

Hid headlights ain't bas all you have to do is run a power and a ground and they are plug and play

 

If I had some help Id definitely do it.

 

i'll try to remember to take a picture when i get home from work.


this and HIDs aren't really "wiring" per se. like john said, when you order the kit, everything has plugs, most of which are set up so you physically can't plug incorrect wires to each other. all you have to do is connect a single red wire to the positive battery terminal (consists of loosening and retightening a single nut), and then ground each side (same thing as before, but it's 2 nuts/bolts). comes with a purdy diagram too

due to my own fault, i fried the relay on mine about 2 months ago. the kits are so cheap i just ordered a whole new set so i'd have some spare parts. including zip tieing the wires to keep them neat, it literally took me under 10 minutes to swap out bulbs, ballasts, relay, and +/- connections.
you can doooooo eeeeeeeet!

 

what kit did you use? like a link?

 

http://www.ddmtuning.com/Products/DDM-HID-Kit-Slim-Ballast-35W-or-55W

35 watt
h4 hi/low
5000k