Woah. Been a minute since I updated this.
For starts I finished the upper corner mod before the snow started flying. Something about bare sockets and road salt just didn't tickle me in the right ways. I was sent a couple sets of side markers from P1 and one had a chrome interior lower! So I cut the bulb riser out and drilled a hole in the smoked top corner and glued the riser to it. Popped in a white LED for symmetrical reasons (all white upper lights and Amber lowers) and she's looking halfway decent again!
While I was messing with it an idea hit me. I have a green truck and clear visor lenses. Why not have green cab lights?! So out came the Amber ones and in went the greens. Holy. Crap. Green was insane. Even with my 4hi mod and the LED bar my cab lights would turn road signs GREEN. Turned many heads too. So many people would stare. Little kids would point at it, random people would come up to me at gas stations and I thought it was sweet as hell. The state cop that passed me on my way home after a 20 hour work day one night apparently had other opinions. Well it was fun while it lasted. He wasn't too happy I was carrying the Amber ones just in case that situation did arise so I got a r&r for front window tint. HAHAHA yeah right dude. I didn't want that $150 anyways. I like my tint. But I did swap the green lights out. Too much attention for right now. And I've since seen some county plow rigs running green strobes in combination with the Amber ones. A little research turned up a trial run with state and local municipalities testing green lights for better visibility (science has proven green is more visible to the human eye than any other color. Look it up. Some of the science behind night vision goggles and new laser sights being green instead of the usual red)
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Let's see. Oh my blower motor finally threw in the towel. The past year it has progressively made its way to shiitting the bed. Started with a mild chirping that The radio easily drowned out to every once in a great while not turning and a slight tap on the ass would get it going to whacking it with a snow brush to kicking it to beating the living daylights out of it with a short handle 3lb sledge to gah shiit. I better buy one I'm probably denting the backing plate. Was dreading the job based on how much of a pain in the arse doing anything else on these trucks can be and with a half price new one from Napa due to a workplace discount and a gift card my sister gave me for Christmas I was pleasantly surprised to find the old one was out in about 5 minutes and there was no junk in the housing at all. New one was back in and blowing like a homeless crack addict. Rubber sound buffer included!
Before that I did a thermostat cause she was taking a bit to heat up in the fall weather and I hadn't replaced it since I got it. Figured it was well past due. Another quickie job and she heats up in about 5 minutes. Found a water pump leak while I was digging around but no puddles yet. Hoping to gimp it along till spring.
Bought a couple new fenders awhile back. Not sure if that was in a previous update or not. Oem and in primer. Those will wait til the asphalt plant fires up in spring and every last speck of salt dust has long since washed away from these pothole laden things we have here they call roads. Got a grille from the junk yard that looks to be about a week old. Had all new lights in it too. Bumper under it was a newer smoothie. Not my style so it stayed. That'll go on with the fenders. Tailgate gets painted with them. (no more drunk rattle can primer job!) no pics for those. Still in boxes in a buddy's basement.
Last but not least the pioneer head unit I had was switched for a newer Bluetooth one. Got a sweet discount on two of them from Best Buy and the Gfs xplod from the early 90s just wasn't up to par anymore with sticking cracking buttons and a USB slot that refused to do anything. I'll update with pics later.
Also got rid of my overplayed and we'll worn set of BFG all terrains. She's gliding on a fresh set of Toyo open country ATII's now. 265/75/16. I needed some new grips. The old BFGs wore well but they barely got me through last winter. Sold my second set of Toyos and junk dune rims for a cool $200. One Craigslist deal I do not regret. I'll be back for a tread wear update next winter. I did test out the new ones and they dig all day. At least for a daily. I'm sure they wouldn't serve well in the sloppy shiit but on the road and the easy trails I do they grab and they go. Didn't even need 4x4 for my test trip. Do good in the sand and snow as well which was my main reason for going back to Toyo in the first place. I don't have a bad word about these so far aside from the fact the standard load tires don't have the strongest tread ply which is fine until. They wear down. Then it seems like you drive around a nail factory all week. At least the original open country tires did. These might be different. We will just have to see.
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I'm finally on my way to tackling this horrid exhaust!!!!! Christmas came a week early. My stubborn ass was hell bent on buying a set of JBA stainless headers for the truck for about a month. When I had the money I was about to commit to buying them and a 10lb present dropped on my legs. I was forced to open it and boom. There they were!!!! I had three of my closest friends trying to convince me I would be better off doing an LS swap or buying a different truck. I didn't have the coin for the LS and I refuse to let this truck go so the gf was left no choice but to make me open it. A few more parts and the heads will be off to have the broken bolts removed and a new exhaust will finally be on!
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Don't think I have anything else really.
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