Chicagoland area members

Fancy and fast

 

Badlands August 16th. Hope to see a few of you guys there!

 

Hey Matt, I saw you have ADD 1 oil catch can, how is it working for you? I'm thinking of picking one up.

 

It's working great! My brother (geekhouse23) has one too. Keeps the engine running longer and sludge out. Great device for 80 bucks. Had some trouble trying to mount it because space under he hood



If you want to mount it by the battery you can I just have an additional fuse box for extras I have installed or am installing. If you don't have room and want to install it like that. I used a piece of 90 degree aluminum. I have extra and can give you a piece of you're close

 

That is most likely where I'd put mine. I have no room by the fuse box. I'll see if I have anything I can use first. If not I may take you up on that. I saw the add 1 in a thread a guy started and it looks nice as hell. Then I saw you had it so I thought I'd ask. We got to plan out a Chicagoland meet soon

 

3 posts up lol

 

New Member, Illinois Wisconsin boarder. Mostly stock looking 07 4 door 4X4, fender flares, head lights, tail lights, and 265 tires i ripped off one of my 6.0L Fords during a rebuild. Just got done with a URD supercharger install though WEEEEEEEEEEE

 

Welcome!

 

Welcome. Got an outing to badlands the 16th.

 

Is said outing a whole weekend thing or just a day thing?

 

Day

 

Welcome PBH,

from another border dweller.

 

Where are you located Sparky? Rather which side and or town?

 

East side in PP

 

Damn you're right next door. I'm in Bristol. Also got a shop right next to the Renaissance Fair on State Line rd

 

Yea not far at all, I'm over by Sheridan Rd

 

UPDATE to the Badlands trip next weekend:

Decided to do up Saturday afternoon/evening spend the night in the part and wheel all day Sunday.

PM me with any questions you may have. Hope to see a few of you guys there.

 

I found this little guy in the back yard. He is no bigger than a D battery.

 

I think those little guys running around is what my rat terrier dreams about LOL!!

 

The wife is gone with the little guy this week so I finally had a chance to do some things to the truck that I have been putting off. On Tuesday night I installed LED lights under the bed rails, I forgot to get a night pic though and changed the oil too.

I think I spent $25 total and an hour or so to put better "outdoor" tape on, cut them to length, and install them.


Corner shot:


Last night I tried my hand at Plasti-dip to get rid of the last chrome on the truck, I cannot believe how easy this stuff is to work with.







I also had to cut the front lights off because the bolts were rusted inside the light so it was just spinning.

After that I decided to tackle the wiring mess that the previous owner left. There were wires running everywhere, and nothing was cut to correct size, it was just bunched up and zip tied to the closest thing that would hold it, this is what i pulled out of there. There is easily 50ft of extra wiring here above what was needed.



Here are the old switches, anyone have any blanks that are uncut that I could replace these with?



All of that is now replaced with this:



I dont have anything wired to it yet, I have @Iggy. 's switch panel sitting around waiting to be installed, I am going to order a switch for the bed lights and put all of that in at the same time.