Spyder headlamps.....my take on 'em...and LIGHTING in general

[shovelbill]

Good Deal^^^^

Well, seems there really isnt crap left out there for reasonably affordable, decent quality brush bars to mount my fog lights on... all I seem to find is the craptacular bull bars w/ "skid plate"... only good for blocking your front plate and enticing the local PD to make a "justfied stop".
The brush bars all seem to be 1 piece designs, so if ya biff one side, the whole thing is junk... and they too have their own craptacular faux-rubber bumper things that warp in the summer sun and contract in the winter...after a season, they fit like OJ's isotoner gloves.

Bill, I did look up your Warn Trans4mer you bought. For a discontinued item, they sure arent letting them go cheap...unless I come across something older, I might be SOL. I do have an older chrome one. There is a bit of surface rust on the chrome, the brackets are kinda cheesy, and I can hear the rust shake around inside. Not my 1st choice but I might pump oil in and pickle the interior, then shoot the exterior with some hammertough rattle can or something.

i hear on the availability of decent grill guards......i paid a king's randsom for my Warn and i couldn't even get the right receiver hitch.....and i scoured the interweb for that piece..... i have to chop up the piece for the '00-'06 trucks. it is what it is. ya only live once and i wanted it.

someone mentioned that JC Whitney HAD a decent "old style" grill guard for these trucks, i never checked but there's a bread crumb. LMC?

refurbishing old stuff is going to be the norm.

 

[shovelbill]

http://www.goindustries.com/index.p...-guard/77690-big-tex-grille-guard-chrome.html

 

[shovelbill]

http://tahoeforum.com/showthread.php?t=9426

i came inside from ****** with lights Al.....and now i'm searching for a grill guard....whattabitch!

 

[shovelbill]

http://www.gmt400.com/threads/show-me-your-brush-gaurds.14631/

 

[shovelbill]

i like the "stealth" aspect of this one a LOT.....can hardly tell there's a grill guard.

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[n8pu]

see....that's the difference betwixt a responsible adult that knows what a choice is.....and the stupid fukkers that don't like something and want to BAN it, like "conservationism".

HEY, just because I replied like that, don't get the silly idea that I act like an adult. I can act like this at times on a moments notice, sometimes without ANY warning. --->

 

[shovelbill]

i was outside and this headache got to me....woke up with a little one, got worse must be my yearly headache. a behind my eye ******...tried everything i know, might be the computer screen.....i'd rather be gut-shot.

gonna go lay down after i post these pictures.

found these neat little KC "clamp things"

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[shovelbill]

HEY, just because I replied like that, don't get the silly idea that I act like an adult. I can act like this at times on a moments notice, sometimes without ANY warning. --->

thanks, that made me chuckle....

 

[shovelbill]

opens things up for more options

like driving beams next to the high beam

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or maybe a "cornering" beam for those twisty mountain type roads

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but for now i'll stick with my original plan.....had to flip the lenses though.....these might work as a good "around the bend" lamp. gotta light em up first to see.

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oddly enough the spacing is almost perfect for this application......i might be onto sumthin here.

 

[michael hurd]

On that Jeep thread, another set of 'show' lights tested... piss poor.

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f96/headlight-shootout-1166827/index22.html#post13937198
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f96/headlight-shootout-1166827/index22.html#post13937198
Integrated signal, but garbage, like most aftermarket shizzz.

Same vehicle with a new set of JW speaker LED's...

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f96/headlight-shootout-1166827/index22.html#post13937227