KEEPERS METAL FABRICATION (KMFAB)

i'm gonna need one of those LED whips soon

 

nice new page.. was scrolling through and was like.. wait what.. oh that's my truck. lol

 

haha yea I was looking for the all tube sliders and you were first one in mind

 

Anyone recognize this mofo?! Yea cuz its DAN! He's been a stranger here but not to his truck

 

Rinzler was not only spoiled with the final welds on the tiregate, but also got a nice lighting upgrade in the RTT! Andrew may have to do a write-up soon, I love the simplicity of the switches and where the lights are mounted

 

Tons of win in this thread.

 

Headed out to Andrew's last night to install the last addition for the gate!


Needless to say this has been a long yet very successful prototype build The Y-Bar was the final touch, here's some quick pics I took last night. I'll add more in the next couple days

 

Nice work, but do you guys not believe in safety glasses??

 

Well Andrew doesn't but he's paid the price for it a couple times lol

 

Very Nice

 

Still waiting to see if Andrew is ready to start doing plate bumpers...

 

I really can't thank Andrew enough for all the hard work put into this tiregate! It performed flawlessly out on our Turkey Creek Campout last weekend Now that the truck is finally clean and I'm somewhat recovered haha here's some more pics...yes the paint needs to be touched up

New Y-Bar installed and swingout action

Side Shot


As you can see it needs to be touched up, but from the bottom of the gate under the tire, you can see there are 2 mounting points/studs for the Y-Bar to screw into. The other mount point is for when the tire is inside the bed/opposite direction from where it's shown

Only thing that may be necessary is to add some sport of spacer for the top heim joint. The tabs were welded wider than than the bottom ones to allow the gate to swing through them when the tire is flipped and mounted inside the bed

 

Just showing off the badassness Andrew hooked up in my RTT again!

First off is this little box he made entirely from scratch! Drilled the holes for the switches (Ambers of course) and wires coming out of it, then worked some magic inside.

From that box, 1 wire goes along the tent to the center. Then the wire is ziptied to the center pole for the interior LED bar


Let there be LIGHT!


Zooming out shows the wire that is drilled through the bottom and silicone for the Ladder/Annex LED


And a pic from below

MOAR Light!


Going back inside the RTT, this is a 12V accessory outlet that I originally bought from Amazon. Again Andrew worked magic, so the red 12V power cord that extends from my blue sea 12v sockets in my bed is wired directly into it. This keeps both accessory outlets free It also has the original power wire running over to the first box with the switches, transferring the power once the main red wire is plugged in!

Heres the main red 12V power wire running to the outside and into my bed sockets

 

I really need to do a write-up thread on this lighting setup

 

Looks good!

 

YES! There's already some growing interest

 

I'm watching and contemplating

 

I somehow just now saw this thread. Subd for future purchases

 

I haven't even posted in the RTT thread yet.....

Glad you found it dude! Whatcha gunna get first?

 

Who knows man haha. I'm thinking sliders first for functionality and it'll be easiest on the bank account. Need to build my funds back up though now for a couple months!