Shmellmopwho DCLB EXPO BUILD

Thanks dude I really appreciate the kind words!

They're sitting on my work bench in my garage with a sad face saying "INSTALL ME!!"
I'm really hoping to be able to get them installed this upcoming Saturday!

 

Got home from work a little early today and said "damn I gotta get to my Aux fuse block and clean up this dirty rats nest"

Went from this


To this

 

Damn that's alot cleaner wiring!! Might be time to clean the engine bay.

 

Haha thanks bro! Yeah it's waaaaay overdue for a cleaning!!

 

Just talked to my Toyota mechanic buddy and were officially going to swap the new diffs in this Saturday!!! Getting very excited!!!

 

Is your engine bay that dirty since you cut your flares?

 

Idk what you installed there but I need one haha way too many wires going everywhere btw still super jealous of the locker I will have that someday it's on the list I'm doing my bumper hopefully this weekend will have pics for you to see how I did lol and I swear our trucks are going to look damn close to the same when completely done but each will have its own identity I love/hate drooling over all the nice work you've done

 

It's kinda always been dirty since I go through some super dusty areas but yes it gets even dirtier because I cut my fenders and removed the splash guards. Once I put some plastic back in there for splash guards it will help with all that dirt and dust.

Hey bro. I installed an auxiliary fuse block for my accessories such as my light bars, CB radio, and air compressor. I also installed a 100 amp circuit breaker. The auxiliary fuse block enables you to clean up all your wires and run it to the positive and negative "hubs" on the block. On mine there are 12 slots for blade fuses which helps you to trouble shoot a problem with an accessory much easier. If you short one of your accessories it makes it really easy to look under the hood at the block and see if you blew a fuse. It also helps protect your battery because everything is running to the Fuse panel now and not straight to your battery. If you short something it will kill the power to it at the fuse. The 100 amp circuit breaker will help protect your battery a lot because if you were to run a bunch of accessories at once and it was too much the circuit breaker would trip and kill the power to your accessories to protect the battery from damage. I have an odyssey extreme battery that was almost $300 so it's nice to have the protection haha.

I'm very excited about the locker man! It's gonna be great! Don't be jealous! You'll have one in no time! Are you building your own bumper or did you buy it from somewhere? I'm stoked to see it! Haha yeah man! That's what is great about this site is that you get inspiration from multiple builds but you can put your own twist on things to make your truck your own and have its own identity! I appreciate all the kind words dude! Stoked to see your truck continue to take shape!

 

The whole fuse thingy is awesome idea never thought about that and I'm building my own bumper I will be taking pics of the whole process I found like 4 pics of bumpers that I liked certain parts of I'm going to attempt to put 4 bumpers together in one and make a custom bad ass bumper I have a guy welding it up for me and his dad to supervise the whole thing should be fun. We just got done doing my buddies ford his is a different idea then mine but he wasn't super picky about how to do it so I got an idea of where to start and how to build it. We aren't bending anything we are actually cutting the angles needed for a more precise custom look I can't wait

 

Awesome dude!! I can't wait to see how it turns out!!! I'll definitely be watching.

 

I'll be posting up random pics hopefully as the build happens always seem to forget to take pics as I'm working on the truck my hands are dirty and oily and I hate cameras lol

 

Haha I hear ya! But you gotta document your work! Everyone wants to see it!

 

Yea man this is something I really want to show off I hope lol my first build of anything with metal just wish I had my own shop now lol but I will definitely be documenting it and showing off my work if it's not terrible

 

Just take your time and measure things a lot so that you get things right the first time. It'll turn out great dude!

 

I sure as hell hope so I can't wait to get it put together and on the truck super anxious and nervous to not screw it up but I know I have the right help to point me in the right direction

 

Yeah man if you have your buddies helping you then more heads are better than one and it'll turn out awesome

 

We did that for my buddies and came out good but had a million ideas going into the same thing and at times we all confused eachother

 

Haha yeah sometimes there are conflicting ideas and stuff but it helps when everyone has valid input for the project

 

Yea man his bumper came out good and now that it's done I know that I want mine done almost completely opposite of what he did with his but his turned out really good

 

You have pictures of his?