Night Eagle's kind of a build thread

You installing the compressor under the hood?

 

I haven't fully decided. I was thinking of possibly putting it in the driver side cubby in the bed. If I put it there, it will involve a lot more wire though. I kind want to be a little different from other people. Most everybody puts it in the engine compartment because it is easy.

 

I hear ya. Definitely did mine there cuz it's easy

 

Awesome man you will be fully protected now. Where is the bumper now?

 

Ya I can decide. I might just go for easy though.

Yes I will be. As far as I know still stuck at billy's shop in cali. The shipping company I guess just shows up when ever. Even when he gives it a time and date.

 

I don't know if you can take credit for me wanting to be different eric. That is a good try though.

 

Not my mission, yours.
You're definitely "a little different" Leo

 

Wtf is that liscence plate Lookin jobber?

 

It's for a licence plate duh. I kinda have the fancy new bumper coming in and the hitch is behind the plate.

 

flips up or down like the gas filler on an 80s sedan?

 

Flip up

 

I saw another that you slip into a frame and another with magnets

 

Ya I never really looked at any others. I talked to billy about them and he pointed me in the direction of the one that I got. The flip up seemed like the best option any way, at least to me. I know it will be secure to the truck and wont have to worry about it. I could see those being nice though.

 

I watched a magnetic one wash away this summer. Yours is what's on my truck

 

Looks like the exact same one I have....
Don't know if you ever pull a trailer or not, but it works fine.

 

I did notice that with mine the ball is close to in the bumper and crimps the trailer sooner than expected when I pulled one last

 

Sounds to me like you just need a longer ball mount.

I see lots of people hooking up little trailers with a straight mount too.

It's kind of ridiculous when the trailer is cocked up at a 45

Between our lifts and the hitch being moved up even higher into the bumper you really need a drop mount anyway.

Fortunately for me, I had one that I was using as a rise to tow with the minivan (hitch is about 6 inches off the ground) so I just flip it to use it as a drop.

 

that is kind of another reason I got it. I do plan on getting a nice adjustable hitch for my truck so i can still tow.

 

Well I got good news from Billy today, my bumper shipped at about 12:30 cali time today.

So we found out the reason why they didn't pick it up on friday also. So apparently they need a business name for address to ship it. The stupid part was they didn't tell Billy that until this morning when he called them to ask why. Which meant he had to fill all the paper work out all over again. So you can imagine he was a little mad and I just found it stupid. The good is that it shipped and should take two days to get here.