DannyBFresco's "El Taco Fresco" Accumulation of Hand-Me-Downs and Other Assorted Stuff & BS

Work's been insane, but I've still been able to knock out little projects. To start, I got some BAMF bed rail tie-ins to connect the front and side rails. This increased the rigidity of my bed immensely, which is awesome because it's been floppy back there since adding the fiberglass.


I also installed some rear bed stiffeners that I've had for years now, but I only have this one pic for some reason lol



With that new rigidity, I figured I'd slap on the ol' bed bars I got from @rob1208



They're waaaaay stiffer now than before. The fiberglass doesn't creak at all, even with my thicc ass fully sitting on just one bar Might be time for another RTT...

 

Finally installed my blue sea fuse panel, and while I was at it I grabbed a 27M Duracell AGM battery. I need to extend the factory wires, but it "fits" right now. The stock battery hold down broke on me at the same time too, so I replaced it with a beefy one from a vendor on here (Link)




I've also been down a lighting rabbit hole lately, as I'm sure you can all tell. I got my set of Diode Dynamics SS3 sports from @memario1214 installed on my ditch brackets pointed mostly forward now, rather than sideways. It helps a lot more than the flood pods pointed outward that were blocked by my fenders. For being the sport level, they have a fantastic throw. I need to get some night shots of these soon.







I also snagged a Hard Korr Lighting 22" light bar to replace the Amazon bar in the bumper...huge difference!!






I snagged the Superbrightleds.com rock light kit in red. It's super easy to install, just need to add a wiring harness and switch of your choosing to the kit




Finally, I added a rock light under my hood that I won on Instagram with some speaker wire and an old switch I had laying around. Works pretty good!

 

Did you end up making a custom mount for your fogs? Love to see a close up of how it is mounted to the hybrid bumper if you could take a photo for me. I got a BFF hybrid, and no existing flat horizontal mounting surface. Gonna have fab something up or drill through the tube. I can't mount directly to the plate (without an L-bracket or something custom) due to the orientation of the mounting points on the DD fogs (they'd be 180-degrees the wrong way).

 

Not yet! However, the mounting brackets on the SS3s are reversible I think. I’ve actually decided to upgrade from the SSC2s to another set of SS3s for the bumper additional tab

 

Ok, thanks. When you do post up a photo.

I dont think they are reversible, but even if they were it wouldn't allow you to aim up and down with the reversed orientation. I'll figure it out when I have time. Those new bamf hybrids are looking nice, and have all the level mounting positions I would need up top, but not upgrading bumpers just for that.

 

Yeah I’ll definitely post some pics!

 

You sir have stumbled upon a fishing spot of mine. I have peed in that bush hundreds of times

 

Freaking awesome Danny! Nice way to bust out some stuff! Love those red rock lights! They would be my choice too. Truck looks great!

 

I will pee in that bush one day, as soon as the kids are a little bigger.

 

Appreciate it my dude!

 

A hard core fisherman would teach their kids how to pee in it now.

 

Gonna rock this setup temporarily. Got a little surprise showing up in the next couple weeks

 

I finally took the time to run a 10-gauge hardwire to my blue sea fuse panel for the fridge. It didn’t run well at all on the stock cig outlet and only was powered with the key on, which drained the battery pretty quick last trip. Runs pretty good now and has very minimal draw with the new Duracell AGM. I’ll figure out a permanent place for the new blue sea outlet later

 

Lots of room for activities now

 

Many thanks to @memario1214 for getting these Diode Dynamics SSC2s over to me! I went with the sport level with the SAE fog beam pattern. Gotta get a new tab added to the bumper, but I think it should work pretty well!

 

Well I'm not a fan of cats, so I'll be sure to keep them level!