Rocket Man's 2008 Bagged CC Silverado Build AKA "THE MACHINE"

[iamdub]

Found these Autometer angled mounting rings. They come in a 3-pack so if anybody else out there needs one let me know. These are for 2 1/16" gauges and are made for exactly this purpose.

I like those better. I saw them in the Google Images but clicked on one of the first ones I saw.

But, hey, it's another small-and-easy-but-productive-and-cheap project for ya!

 

[Rocket Man]

I would buy the Air Lift before AccuAir I have had both and worked with both and, so far, the Air Lift is far less problematic.

I tried using a switch box on the caddy when I got it and hated it after having self-leveling kits for so long.

I'll cross that bridge when I get a boatload of cash. Right now it will have to be cheap mods for awhile.

 

[PG01]

I'll cross that bridge when I get a boatload of cash. Right now it will have to be cheap mods for awhile.

Shit, if i had your money, id burn mine.....lmao

 

[NathanJax]

Found these Autometer angled mounting rings. They come in a 3-pack so if anybody else out there needs one let me know. These are for 2 1/16" gauges and are made for exactly this purpose.

hmmmmm..................

Ship me one

 

[PG01]

hmmmmm..................

Ship me one

Please?

 

[NathanJax]

Please?

 

[PG01]

Lmao

 

[Rocket Man]

Love that movie. Send me a PM with your address and it will be on its way right meow.

 

[PG01]

ST 2 is out on Friday... morning

 

[Rocket Man]

I noticed my outside mirrors have puddle lights but they aren't wired since they quit putting those in the NNBS Silverados. I think the mirrors are the power folding ones from a Tahoe. So I pulled the light housings because they were painted over and looked at getting some new ones, figuring they would be $5 or so. Holy crap, $20 plus shipping for each one. So I just sanded the paint off and buffed them with some Meguiar's Fine Cut. They should work fine. Now I just need to wire them to the dome light circuit and replace the bulbs with LED. Another almost free mod.

 

[Rocket Man]

Is it an LS or LT, sorry red, I can’t remember?

The truck is an LT with leather seats and fog light options but the mirrors aren't stock.

 

[Rocket Man]

I installed the angled trim ring for the gauge today. It's better but I might re-do it to angle up a bit too. I didn't think about that when I modified the bracket and I'll have to see if I can rotate the trim ring without re-modifying it. You have to cut the legs to length, plus I had to remove material to clear the air line fittings and light. Anyway it's way better. Before and after.

 

[Rocket Man]

I couldn’t remember......LTZs came with puddles lights, could be off that, or a suv, like you said. Odd they didn’t keep the ones without puddle lights and paint them instead of swapping to the ones with the puddle light and painting over it.....

It looks like they were the textured black ones, otherwise they probably would have painted them.

 

[Rocket Man]

I got the puddle lights done today but I went over budget- I broke the toggle switch for my RGB/demon eyes so I had to buy a new one for $4.95. Dammit. Install wasn't bad- I had to run a wire through the door boot and hook it to the dome light wire over at the BCM. I used my fancy crimp tool for Deutsch connectors and put a quick connect on each mirror so they could be removed just like OEM. I was messing around with a motorcycle battery with the wires coming out of the passenger mirror and discovered the power fold function works lol. Too bad the BCM isn't programmed for it or I could get the upgraded switches and wire them in. Puddle light mod for $4.95, not bad.

 

[Tonyrodz]

I got the puddle lights done today but I went over budget- I broke the toggle switch for my RGB/demon eyes so I had to buy a new one for $4.95. Dammit. Install wasn't bad- I had to run a wire through the door boot and hook it to the dome light wire over at the BCM. I used my fancy crimp tool for Deutsch connectors and put a quick connect on each mirror so they could be removed just like OEM. I was messing around with a motorcycle battery with the wires coming out of the passenger mirror and discovered the power fold function works lol. Too bad the BCM isn't programmed for it or I could get the upgraded switches and wire them in. Puddle light mod for $4.95, not bad.

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Couldn't you just wire the power fold directly for power, to a switch, and bypass the bcm? Could use a factory switch so everything looks original.

 

[Rocket Man]

Couldn't you just wire the power fold directly for power, to a switch, and bypass the bcm? Could use a factory switch so everything looks original.

Its possible with relays but not just a switch. There's only 2 wires and you have to reverse polarity on the wires to switch directions. It's a lot of messing around. I don't think the factory switches would work because they're not meant to work relays, they're meant to use a bus line to the BCM. I saw a guy on another forum do it with relays and a DPDT switch mounted under the dash but I'm not really into that. I'd probably never use them anyway. If it was just adding a harness and factory switches I'd do it though.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Its possible with relays but not just a switch. There's only 2 wires and you have to reverse polarity on the wires to switch directions. It's a lot of messing around. I don't think the factory switches would work because they're not meant to work relays, they're meant to use a bus line to the BCM. I saw a guy on another forum do it with relays and a DPDT switch mounted under the dash but I'm not really into that. I'd probably never use them anyway. If it was just adding a harness and factory switches I'd do it though.

I sure miss the good old days of just adding some wires to get something to work.

 

[kbuskill]

You could get this guy to reprogram the BCM to operate the mirrors and also get him to disable the hyper flash on the the turn signals, so you can lose the resistors, while he's at it... plus other stuff to.

http://www.whiteautoandmedia.com/in...n=com_virtuemart&Itemid=54&vmcchk=1&Itemid=54

200 bones ain't bad in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Rocket Man]

I can think of a whole lot of other things I'd rather spend that cash on. I wonder if I can have Blackbear add that to my tune...to be continued. I'm going to reach out to Justin.

 

[kbuskill]

I can think of a whole lot of other things I'd rather spend that cash on. I wonder if I can have Blackbear add that to my tune...to be continued. I'm going to reach out to Justin.

I understand... I have been wanting to do this for a while so I can get rid of the resistors but haven't done it yet.

I don't believe that BBP has the ability to change parameters in the BCM but it's worth asking.