I love cruising through the "what did you do to your camper today" thread, I figured I'd add a "what did you do to your truck today".
I'm sure that many of you are like me....and your truck that you use to haul your camper gets a lot of special attention to make sure it's in tip-top shape for your adventures.
I'll start out.....
Today I mounted 2 PIAA 520 Fog lights and 2 PIAA Driving lights to my winch bumper, and aimed them.
This evening, I received a box containing torklift stableload bumpstops. Those will have to wait for another day....we've got a blizzard going on here.
I'm sure that many of you are like me....and your truck that you use to haul your camper gets a lot of special attention to make sure it's in tip-top shape for your adventures.
I'll start out.....
Today I mounted 2 PIAA 520 Fog lights and 2 PIAA Driving lights to my winch bumper, and aimed them.
This evening, I received a box containing torklift stableload bumpstops. Those will have to wait for another day....we've got a blizzard going on here.
Ya, like the J. Geils Band song "Rust Stinks" :D..
Got ID lights installed in Grill.. thanks for the suggestion Bedlam
Jury's still out, functional but unsure. Looks a bit like the **** magnet left on going thru Pep Boys.
Do serve purpose at least for awhile.
Found another option for cab lights without drilling or wiring. Caboveramerica.com makes lights that don't require
drilling or wiring. Remote controlled, Solar charged battery powered cab lights. Pretty slick.
But they are really expensive.
Camper has ID lights and truck cab lights are switched off because of reflection so battery lights not receiving
charge wouldn't be an issue.
Hard to justify 10X the cost and I have a new set of cab lights on hand. Maybe after paint has cured awhile,
unless these grow on me, install them on cab.
The grill lights would probably look OK in-conjunction with cab lights. Things that could be done...
Got ID lights installed in Grill.. thanks for the suggestion Bedlam
Jury's still out, functional but unsure. Looks a bit like the **** magnet left on going thru Pep Boys.
Do serve purpose at least for awhile.
Found another option for cab lights without drilling or wiring. Caboveramerica.com makes lights that don't require
drilling or wiring. Remote controlled, Solar charged battery powered cab lights. Pretty slick.
But they are really expensive.
Camper has ID lights and truck cab lights are switched off because of reflection so battery lights not receiving
charge wouldn't be an issue.
Hard to justify 10X the cost and I have a new set of cab lights on hand. Maybe after paint has cured awhile,
unless these grow on me, install them on cab.
The grill lights would probably look OK in-conjunction with cab lights. Things that could be done...
AnEv942 wrote:
Got truck back from body shop that installed new roof skin.
Spent good part of the day reinstalling interior I had removed (headliner, visors, trim etc).
Another day rewiring, CB, custom interior light that controls exterior 3rd brake light functions, GPS ant etc. I have a lot of funny wiring.
Gosh- why is it leaking? Even heavy fog water dripping inside. Outside of the window rubber all that was visible was the bubbled paint.
Knew I had problem but extent surprised me.
Pretty sure cause, other than being a block from the Pacific, was bad glass replacement (scratched) few years ago.
I really wanted to attempt repair and if anyplace other than windshield would have.
However once I seen the required drilling of 100+ spot welds glad I had it done. 4 days in the shop-done, likely I'd still be drilling:)
Probably spend a few hours today putting all my 'stuff' back in the truck.
Quandary now is clearance/ID marker lights.
Truck is over 80" wide so required but really don't want to drill 15 holes in new roof. Didn't have issue with them on original install but just don't want to do again.
As someone who bought a used suburban from the southern seaboard area of california that was from the 80s, I know that rust well :). Mercifully, the body and frame is destined for the junkyard, I bought it off the neighbor who spent the money to haul it back for what buying another 350 small block, a 700R4 w/transfer case, 4x4 front and rear axles and spring mounts/perchs etc... would have cost me, but it is chock full of rust holes and badly done and now failing bondo patches.
Got truck back from body shop that installed new roof skin.
Spent good part of the day reinstalling interior I had removed (headliner, visors, trim etc).
Another day rewiring, CB, custom interior light that controls exterior 3rd brake light functions, GPS ant etc. I have a lot of funny wiring.
Gosh- why is it leaking? Even heavy fog water dripping inside. Outside of the window rubber all that was visible was the bubbled paint.
Knew I had problem but extent surprised me.
Pretty sure cause, other than being a block from the Pacific, was bad glass replacement (scratched) few years ago.
I really wanted to attempt repair and if anyplace other than windshield would have.
However once I seen the required drilling of 100+ spot welds glad I had it done. 4 days in the shop-done, likely I'd still be drilling:)
Probably spend a few hours today putting all my 'stuff' back in the truck.
Quandary now is clearance/ID marker lights.
Truck is over 80" wide so required but really don't want to drill 15 holes in new roof.
Didn't have issue with them on original install but just don't want to do again.
Spent good part of the day reinstalling interior I had removed (headliner, visors, trim etc).
Another day rewiring, CB, custom interior light that controls exterior 3rd brake light functions, GPS ant etc. I have a lot of funny wiring.
Gosh- why is it leaking? Even heavy fog water dripping inside. Outside of the window rubber all that was visible was the bubbled paint.
Knew I had problem but extent surprised me.
Pretty sure cause, other than being a block from the Pacific, was bad glass replacement (scratched) few years ago.
I really wanted to attempt repair and if anyplace other than windshield would have.
However once I seen the required drilling of 100+ spot welds glad I had it done. 4 days in the shop-done, likely I'd still be drilling:)
Probably spend a few hours today putting all my 'stuff' back in the truck.
Quandary now is clearance/ID marker lights.
Truck is over 80" wide so required but really don't want to drill 15 holes in new roof.
Didn't have issue with them on original install but just don't want to do again.
I changed the oil and filters in my truck today.
The truck recommends changing the oil about every 10,000 miles, I change it every 5000.
The last picture shows how much oil it used in the last 5000 miles carrying my camper.
I'm pretty impressed that's all the oil it used considering it has 225,000 miles on it.
