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Made progress on the list of things to get done before Moab, plus I snuck in some extra work. First up was fixing some exhaust leaks. When I had the carpet in the noise from them wasn't bad at all really, but after pulling the carpet out I realized just how loud the ones on the passenger side...

Temporary fix: This is actually some pretty good tape, I was able to apply it while it was still raining and it stuck, I just squeegeed out the water as i put it down and it held just fine. We had a roll at work which is when I did this. I should pick up a roll or two and keep one in the...

So it's been raining since yesterday afternoon, and this morning I came out to the truck to discover a puddle of water in my Huskyliner floor mat on the driver side. Further inspection revealed that not only is the carpet underneath completely sopping wet as well, but the same thing happened on...

Next up was plumbing the lines. I removed the factory hose crimps from the hard lines next to the front of the engine and pulled the hoses off. Since the stock cooler lines turned out to be aluminum (which made it a lot easier to use the flaring tool with) I cut up the portion I removed that ran...

At this point I went ahead and redid the routing of the winch power cables and mounted the controller. Previously I was passing the power cables up at the uppr right through the same hole the AC line ran through, but then I noticed a second hole on that same side lower down. This was more...

On to the next fix, the transmission cooler. When I crawled under the Alpha again yesterday to start on this, I noticed that even though I had wiped the bottom of the radiator clean the weekend before, it was already sopping wet with lots of drips forming of transmission fluid. I was able to...

Something I thought I'd take a shot of and share, the H3 has a great spot for a flashlight right next to the seat. I don't even use clips since I've never had this one roll anywhere. It's a worklight from Lowes (their Kobalt brand) that uses Lithium Ion batteries and has the charger built into...

I also took a quick moment to finish hooking up the brake controller, now that the wiring was fixed. It's much happier now.

Once the wire was cleaned I spliced it together using a crimp that has adhesive lined heat shrink. This will make it a permanent fix and seal out the elements. Then I wrapped it using some 3M self vulcanizing rubber tape. Frankly it's all I had on hand, I have no idea where my regular...

So Saturday was spent fixing the two major issues that have come up that needed to be addressed before my trip to Moab at the end of the month. First up was the trailer brake wire that had rubbed through. I had to pull the bumper off to make this easy, and after that it really wasn't too bad a...

This past week I have received a bunch of goodies that I've ordered for the Alpha with still some more on the way.

That's brilliant using the vented server rack plates. I'll have to look at what I've got kicking around in the storage room at work for ither ideas. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

So I got the 15' cable in today, and wouldn't you know it, the seller apparently doesn't know the difference between 2/0 gauge cable and 2 gauge cable, even when 2 gauge is all that is printed on the cable jacket... :rage: I messaged them though and they gave me a call about it. They are going...

Since the popup tent trailer I'm taking down to Moab has brakes, I have to get that fixed pretty soon. I need to see if I can just get a new harness or if I should just repair the line. Honestly with where it is at it wouldn't be too bad a job to cut the wire and crimp it back together, or just...

After dinner and getting the girls in bed I spent some more time on the Alpha, this time installing the Tekonsha P3 brake controller I picked up. At first I mounted it on the left of the steering wheel, but that ended up being a bad location because my knee would hit it while getting in and out...

Last steps are to actually install it on the Alpha. Seeing how the whole thing is made with 3/16" steel it now weighs a fair bit. I'm glad I pulled the winch off, because just the bumper and the winch alone were barely light enough for me to handle on my own. I would not have been able to lift...

Here is what I ended up with. The baseline ended up being 29.25" center to center, and 6" from the front of the bumper to the center of the first hole. Then the rest of it I was able to line up using the measurements CJ provided me. I test fit it all again to make sure everything lined up...

Here's some pics of the process I went through today with actually installing it. I pulled off the stock bumper, grille, and removed the hidden winch mount the previous owner installed, then I pulled the winch off the Thor bumper so that I could properly measure everything out. Blue tape FTW. I...

I've made more progress, both in actual work as well as ordering a ton of stuff for the Alpha. We'll see if I can get it all installed before Moab (unlikely, but possible). Last night I decided to start working on mounting the bumper pods to the Thor Parts winch bumper which was originally on...

Yeah, I had that problem with my red H3, though that was more due to my workload at my job making me too tired to really want to do much else. As for the 6.0, it's entirely likely it really did have one in it, that's a pretty common swap in the Alpha's since the 5.3 and 6.0 are essentially the...