BlaisBrosTacos '08 Reg Cab 4x4 Build and Adventures

sadly.....no, I sir, do not......

 

Finally get a chance to upload pictures from Josh at Shoot For Details

 

New wheels and tires. American Racing AR23 16" wheels wrapped in 285/75/R16 Falken Wildpeak M/T tires

 

I heard about those.

 

That looks Awesome!!!

 

Thanks guys

 

I like it!!

 

I do too.

 

Just mounted up my new dash cam! Just need to get an SD card for it. Ran the wires right under the headliner, down the pillar, and to the 12v outlet for now. In the future, I’m going to put a 12v outlet hidden under the dash for this so there will be no exposed wires. Thank you again @Texasdynaryder

 

Shoot yea man! Hope it takes some good video for ya.

 

Newest project. Jeep retrofits. @LivinLoud gave me a hand putting these together. Came out really cool I think.

In this case... it was all about form over function. Cut off lines are excellent, however, in all honesty the light output itself is “meh” at best. Really just wanted something different than everyone else and I think I succeeded. If I need more light output I have fog lights, a light bar, and ditch lights so I’m not too worried.

 

Wow!!! Those are frickin sweet!

 

Quick little write up on the headlights for anyone interested...
maybe @LivinLoud can throw in some extra if he has any.

This was my first time doing anything like this so dont judge. The goal was to make something different from everyone's regular projector retrofits. Ive only seen this done a few times. @5 Lug Fury @JezabelRed

I will say a regular projector retrofit has better light output but for me, this was about form, not function. I have plenty of other lights if I need more. So here wen go...

First off, here's what I bought:


Made a little redneck oven with a cardboard box and a heat gun:


New housings:


I prepared the new housings by removing the film on them, and removing the 3 screws on each light. Put the heat gun on and popped em in the oven for like 10-15 minutes or so. took them out and pried them apart.



I removed the reflector, and took our the shield. Here's test fit of the new light.


Scuffed up, primed and painted the chrome reflector gloss black.



popped the reflector back in...


test fit.


Dont judge my fab skills here, I dont do this very often. but I made my own mounts out of some flat stock steel I had in the work shop. Cut off wheel on the dremal and angle grinder, drill press, vise, and small mig welder. about an hour or 2 later we had some mounts.

No pictures of the finished mount but I drilled a hole in the center of the big plate and welded a nut to it. I then made some small plates out of the same steel with a hole in the middle for a bolt. here's the back view of the housing after mounting.


and the front


Now we placed the housing back in the oven for a few minutes and sealed the lens back on with 3M Windo-weld. It was late so no pictures before install.

here they are installed.


Cut off lines on the garage:


some lousy out put shots at night:

low beam:


high beam:

 

Just added some DOT/SAE approved Rough Country LED fog lights yesterday!

 

Beautiful

 

Those look good man! Thanks for the write up

 

Good Jon on the write up Nick.
Happy New year!

 

+1 ^^^

 

Some how I’m just seeing these now. Happy new year guys.