since i'm almost into the rotors(on the sqeekers) and low on funding. i got some premium brake pads from carquest to hold me over untill i can afford new rotors and EBC pads. changing them out today.

 

Rear Strobes...installed by drilling a 1" hole in the center of the 'top' reflector housing, then 2 holes 1 1/4" apart for securing the bulb:



Put the flasher unit forward of the jack. Made 2 brackets from aluminum and mounted to the floor of the truck:


Routed the passenger side strobe wire right through the giant rubber gromment...the driver side strobe went down to the underside, then through that rectangular tube that supports the floor (perfect placement and relatively protected), then up through the driver side (look under and you'll see a plastic shield - drilled through that) then through a mysterious opening:


The strobe wires are VERY heavy, so I'm not too worried about chafing of the wire insulation, but I will check them occasionally to be sure.

Ran the ground, hot and trigger wire under the passenger side sills, across the front floorboard to the new fuse block.

Can't WAIT for the RiffRaff center console!!

 

Oh, and mounted the Mag Light:

 

Congrats!!

 

Installed ceramic-coated Int'l bellowed up-pipes after work yesterday. Had all the bolts on old up-pipes off in literally 5 min . Gotta love a southern beauty - even if the old girl has 255k miles on her!!! Then the turbo and pipes were out in about 45 min. 15 min later the purty new up-pipes were (loosely) bolted in place. After another 2.5hrs , I had the babies butt hooked up... It was maybe another 30 min before I finished after that.

FWIW, I didn't do anything different with babies **** - I just finally lifted it up into just the right spot and it went together EASY.

So, 6mi drive to work this AM and my initial impressions. As soon as it was warmed up I hammered it and it spooled ALOT faster than it did yesterday and at almost 25psi blow a CAC boot before I limped the rest of the way to work. It was past my bedtime long before I finished last nite and I did not clean the boots the way I normally do.

 

Filled up,$130, and seafoamed the gas tank, buy 2 get one free at oreilys. Today will be seafoaming the intake and adding my custom roof rack, if it's done. Next week is changing oil and painting roof rack.

 

PICTURES OF ROOF RACK - ASAP!!!! I've been thinking about custom racks since I got the X...

 

He hasn't called yet so I guess it's not done. It's gonna be just like one of those hitch-hauls that u put in a 2" receiver. But this one is gonna be 7'x4.5'. Just 2"angle and mesh. I'm mounting it on a set of Yakima bars. I'll get pics as soon as I get it and put some bedliner in a can on it.

 

I'd love to find a way to configure a "smart sensor". If there's a 300# load on the hitch, it's really not necessary to beep. The boat is supposed to be there.

 

"Seafoamed"?

 

Shouldn't there be a way to write into the trailer umbilical mount to sense when it is connected and use that to disable the rear sensors our the audible alarm?

Not electrically inclined enough to know the technical terms...

 

yeah....hit the off button :-p lol

 

Added sea foam to the gas. O'reilys have a buy 2 get one free deal. Our tanks r 44 gal and it's 1oz per gal so it takes 3 cans.

 

Or a not-all-the-way-full tank.

 

Never heard of it before...interesting...