What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?

zach white said:
In regards to you wanting led reverse lights, check out Sylvania zevos. Did brake, turn and reverse lights in the rear and parking lights in the front on my taco. Also did all led lights on the interior. One of the best, cheap upgrades I’ve ever done.

Edit-interior lights are a different brand. Can get back to you on that if you’re interested
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I will check them out. Thanks! I want to get the reverse lights bright enough so as to make backing up @ night in the woods easier. I plan to leave everything else stock for a long while. Though I may eventually do LED brake lights a long time from now. Last on the list.
 
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great08 said:
I keep seeing deer on the way during my 52mi commute each way. Sooner or later... that will give me the excuse to get a bumper and high quality Diode dynamics LED headlight upgrade. Lol

I need to figure out how to get DD led reverse light upgrade as well... but without damage.

My wife caught me looking at them the other day... started yelling. :)

Sooo... some skids are put on order as of yesterday!

I recently put on the OB badge and did a DIY bed liner.
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Why bedliner did you go with. I just ordered a raptor liner kit for mine. That looks good
 
tritonl said:
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Had to fix the front caliper and break line after I lost a bolt and the caliper hit the rim and scraped hard enough to let air out. Driving home with just the emergency break was fun. The rim needs to be replaced.
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If you ever find yourself in this position again and are headed to get repairs, completely remove the caliper and pinch the soft line off with vice-grips. Zip tie the pliers to the line and secure it up where it won't contact the tire and you can drive like that. It'll probably destroy the brake hose but you'll have good braking but not destroy your parking brake.

I've used this on both a collapsed brake hose and a sticking caliper and have made the drive to where I could work on it with this "fix". You'll just have to completely remove the caliper if you've lost a mounting bolt.
 
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When I was on the trail I could not figure out what it was, I did not want to crawl under the rig on 4 inches of mud. Everything was going well driving back with the e break. Limped home and took it all apart. The ridges break line broke in half between the caliper and the bracket.
 
KDC said:
Why bedliner did you go with. I just ordered a raptor liner kit for mine. That looks good
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I went with the Rust-Oleum Professional Grade this time. It is a 2 part epoxy that claims to 4x tougher than their regular grade. Takes a long time to cure.. but seems extra tough. Seem tougher than the stuff I used with Kevlar last time.
 
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great08 said:
I will check them out. Thanks! I want to get the reverse lights bright enough so as to make backing up @ night in the woods easier. I plan to leave everything else stock for a long while. Though I may eventually do LED brake lights a long time from now. Last on the list.
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I'd recommend running a switch in place of or in conjunction with your reverse lights, that way you have the option to turn them on when you're not in reverse.. camp setup, etc.
 
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A-Aron said:
I'd recommend running a switch in place of or in conjunction with your reverse lights, that way you have the option to turn them on when you're not in reverse.. camp setup, etc.
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Can I just say that its awesome! ... I replaced my backup lights with 2x2 LED pods and love it. Plus when someone is blinding you their brights on you can give them a friendly (or not so friendly) flash. [emoji2]
 
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tritonl said:
The caliper scratched the rim enough for air to start coming through, a bit longer it it could possibly cut the rim in half.
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Wow. What bolt was it? Curious because I have a GX470 that has pretty much the same brakes.
 
great08 said:
I will check them out. Thanks! I want to get the reverse lights bright enough so as to make backing up @ night in the woods easier. I plan to leave everything else stock for a long while. Though I may eventually do LED brake lights a long time from now. Last on the list.
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They would defiantly help with seeing to back up in the woods or at night, no doubt
 
Fighting with getting the rig back to trail worthy. Finally got the yoke differental seal fixed and stopped leaking after a new seal and yoke. Now the shock. Where its mounted to the body is bent up, so I have to straighten that out now....blah...the things we do...lol
 
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Well, I bought wheel spacers about 6 months ago and have gone back and forth as to whether I should install them.
Tonight I just went ahead and did it.
Probably no benefit , but I have trouble leaving anything totally stock...so now I have these and once I get the front leveling kit I'll be done with the mods.
Just want to be a little different than all the other WK2s out there.
 

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