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You have been busy homie.

You body work looks damn good Erik. Lets just hope another tow truck does not jump in your way again and you smash the other corner

 

What is the story with the Red Bull truck across the street?

 

Thanks my dude

up close you can for sure tell it wasn't done by a pro hahahaha but from what it was to now, way better. its just the paint job done to the corner of the actual bedside that is kind of "meh" but its what will be cut off for a HC anyways so I can live with it! its just really nice to have my tailgate back on and functioning properly!! and a new tail light in there is nice as well. now I just need to order a OEM bumper to cover up the rest for now!

 

They work for Red Bull, young couple, about my age. they just moved in last fall so haven't got to know them yet since we have both been hibernating all winter. I did talk to them and helped them when they were stuck in the snow! they are nice people and im sure I will be having a few beers with them this summer hahaha once I know more details I will let you know hahaha

 

How much did you spend to fix this? Just ball parking it that damage would run you about $500 US to fix

 

They must be angels. Red bull gives you wings

 

uuhhhhm well, depends how you look at it hahaha

new tail lights, the corner plastic piece, and the metal corner piece is all I have replaced so far. lets say 300 bucks

BUT! I have to replace the flush mount LED's and will upgrade to the Baja Desings S2 Pro Flush Mount since the cut outs on the HC I want to get are for those lights.

AND! I still need to order a bumper which is another 200 bucks for the OEM one. the shity thing is that I wont have any plastic trim pieces for the bumper cuz they all broke

THEN! I will upgrade to a HC rear but that is not really a NEED to at this point, and probably wont be until Christmas kind of thing. I need time to save up for it and there are other things I want to do first.

so lets call it 500 bucks not including the LED's. cuz realistically, I could just reuse the one I had.

 

Hey man @Bocsy44 , did you used the original wires from the horn to wire your Hella horns? Got mine in the mail today

 

I know I answered this on SC but yes hahaha

 

You were easier to get there than here

 

I should be installing them tomorrow after work. Cant wait to hear them haha.

 

In for cap story and pictures

 

SO I did a thing this weekend. I drove out to Pembroke and bought a CAP! picked it up for 400$


It was in pretty damn good shape, new locking mechanism and window seals were replaced last year. The screens were dirty as hell and one was ripped. the bottom trim is broken on the back glass, there was rust marks all over the the cap from the roof rack. there was A LOT of dog hair on the inside and dog slobber on the windows hahahaha













I took the roof rack off and gave it to my buddy to re powder coat it. I washed the roof and all the rust off as best as I could. I will be re-designing the way the roof rack mounts onto the cap to make it more water tight. the PO didn't do much in regards to keep water out other then a little white silicone. Once I get a few things back from PC and im ready to mount the rack back on I will post up pictures of the new mounting.






So, aside from cleaning the hell out of it, and getting the roof rack re-powdered, I also replaced both screens. I did order a new trim piece for the back window but it wont be in until probably the end of May. I also got a quote to get it colour matched but wont be done until the end of May

P.S I can not believe! how damn HEAVY! my tonneau cover is!! god damn, I swear to god it weighs just as much as the cap does!!!
the tonneau cover will be going up for sale soon enough, im hoping to get enough out of the sale to pay for most of the colour matching paint job.

 

Awesome score! Love the frameless back door, and the way the side windows are opening. And you also have the front sliding window, and all that for a steal! Good job!

I guess you weren't able to put it on by yourself? Those cap are heavy af!

 

nah he had it sitting on 4x4 posts and we lifted it with a tractor to get it on hahaha I wouldn't be able to do it myself that for sure. would need at LEAST 1 other person helping me

 

cap eh....Bedside stiffeners would be a good idea. lol trust me.

 

hahahaha yeah I put some on last summer just for more tie down points. they are the ATH ones and don't go all the way up to the top 2 bolts but meh

 

Better than nothing lol

 

I changed out the AMBER illuminated ABS kill switch for a RED one to better match the OEM dash lights.

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I also got my CB mounted in place, its not wired in yet but it's where I want it to be.



I got some work done to the cap as well. I replaced the wiring plug thing with some water proof ones I got off Amazon. I wired the third brake light into the brake lights obviously hahaha I wired the dome light into my bed lights, which I like because now it turns on with the remote. I ordered the upgraded LED dome light and I'm waiting for that to come in.





The condensation was pissing me off in the 3rd brake light. soooo I took it off, tore it apart, cleaned it up, painted part of the chrome bezel black, put it back together, sealed with silicone, used Gorilla double sided tape to mount back on. the rubber the wire passes through was cracked to I shrink wrapped it and RTV silicone the hole the wire passes through on the cap. yeah, the condensation was back the next day hahahaha

 

I got my cap rack back from powder coating which turned out great.
I took it apart into the 3 pieces, I dumped out all the loose rust! I sprayed some fluid film into all the tubes as best I could before putting it back together. I replaced all the rusted hardware with some black machine screws.







soooo I didn't like the way it was mounted to the roof, I felt like water could get in pretty easily.
I made some aluminum brackets for the racks mounting system to sit on and put some 1/4 thick rubber washers underneath and RTV silicones everything.
on the inside of the cap the PO has stacked washers inside and they were all rusted and looked like crap, so I took some steel flat stock and made some brackets.

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Then I got it all mounted back up


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