The Dark Side & BS Build

I, HATE, STREET, PARKING....
A text while I'm at work from my roommate who noticed it after getting home from the gym

 

Trying to decide if I should go clear or sand it to make the fuse box mount look cloudy....

This is just a mock, I have my final one set aside as I’m finishing drilling the mounting holes

 

Thinking more about it, I’m likely gonna go with the sanded version because it’ll hide the scorn edges or the imperfections from the cut/dremmel’d Lexan

 

Making good use of company overtime...
Sanding the lexan fuse box mount because this posting is obviously a joke.

After this I’m gonna use facilities bench vise to crimp the last copper lug on the 2 gauge wiring

 

Sanded abd mounted it, now just waiting for a FULL day off to unfck the rat nest of loom underneath

 

Thanks to @Benson X
I scored some sweet freakin MGM mirrors

Got one on now just gotta figure out how to unmount the mirror from the black triangle base that attaches tot he window

Here’s some before & afters

 

Hell yeah, man. Glad you got them mounted. I can help swap the triangle piece, if you wanna make the trek up here sometime soon.

 

Dude I might have to, I have one of em apart I just can’t figure out a way to swap it without cutting the hole bigger where the plug goes through of the rubber shield

 

That little white plug is a bastard. It has an outer socket(?) that you need to unlock and slide off before it'll fit through.

 

I changed the (broken) black triangle on the passenger side mirror but the driver side I couldn't get to fit through the plastic passage, they're not a complete match, the MGM colored mirrors' black triangle piece is lighter, and maybe a little speckled? Could be just cause it's a few years older than the 2015 off road mirrors.... oh well it works and no more broken mirrors!!
Thanks again for em!

 

Okay I finally got around to fitting everything and shortening the wires that came with the Rigid harnesses.
This is the final product of my Blue Sea Fuse Box, Bussman 100A Relay and the Lexan DIY Mount






Then the gaggle fck of wiring & loom that it started as:


The beginning stages of the Lexan Mount:


Sanded and test fitting the 2AWG wires:




aaaaand the final product, once again:

 

So I've got the Rigid Industries wiring harness' relays mounted with hardware and not zip ties like it was pictured before, and I threw some labels on the fuse box cover

 

I'm on a wiring binge.
I re-wired the fog lights and light bar switches in my center console and spent a lot of time making it clean and routing the wires so (theoretically) I would never have to worry about them again.

I'll snap some pictures tomorrow... really wish I took some before photos

 

Like I said, electrical work isn't very glorifying
I didn't have a label maker but just double backed some yellow tape and wrote on them for the corresponding OTRATTW pins for if/when I have to take disconnect the switch I don't have a bouquet of wires staring at me

Each of the 2 wiring looms are for a different accessory - (1) RI SAE DOT Fogs & (1) RI Light Bar

 

Almost done making my tool mounts, I'm going off BENSON X's DIY TOOL MOUNT THREAD
*My measurements were different from the write up, I just figured out what worked for my bed side/rail set-up*

I cut & bent the steel, ground down the edges and painted it (pictured drying):



I'll be mounting this axe (got it for free), and that small shovel (Amazon link HERE):

 

I posted long ago about figuring out how to mount my VIAIR 440P compressor... now I'm tinkering with the idea again, although this cubby compartment, perfect size and out of the way-wise... I feel like could be an issue in the wet weather since it's unprotected and directly above the rear mud flaps...

I would cut the top of the cubby and mount the compressor in there, leaving it exposed to the top:





Then this is the area that the cubby would be... my fear is that it'd be too exposed to water (I live in Seattle so it's always wet), and mud kick up (if I took off my rear mud flaps)

 

Paint dried... finished my axe and shovel mount.

The mounts:




Then the tools all mounted up. Side, front and another view showing how it doesn't protrude past the wheel well so I can still utilize that "boxy area" for hauling crap

 

Before:







Afters will come later

 

Decided to lightly sand, and re-rattle can prime/paint my outer grill surround in preparation.... if that gives anything away

 

I got a box!