My 5 Alarm Hoe

[Tonyrodz]

I'm down to 3 trucks now, last night I signed the title over to my neighbors 16yo son(great kid!) for $1 ...he helped me a lot with the Jeep build last summer. I spray painted the entire truck blue as he wet sanded it and learned lots of different mods... I taught him how to install the carpet and hook up the insanely loud stereo system

Poor kids father passed away so hopefully I've helped create another ''car guy'' in his absence

Some before and after pics

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Man! What can I say to that! That's just too damn awesome!!

 

[Cattivo]

Thanks brother

 

[Cattivo]

I threw in some more blue led's today. Here's the 4x4, headlights and the fog light switches...I found 12v power on the black plug that plugs into the 4x4 switch. The brown wire with white tracer will give you 12v only when the parking/headlights are turned on

I used that wire to power the headlight, 4x4 and fog light switches

 

[Cattivo]

Fog light switch only needs 1 bulb. You will have to drill a hole in every switch so the wires can poke out

I used 4 led's in the 4x4 and headlights switch

For the headlight switch I had to dremel some of the raised edges inside the cover as to not crush the wires...the black arrows show what needed to be cut

 

[Cattivo]

This is NOT the wire powered by the parking/headlights, the wire you want is brown with a white tracer...not enough light inside the truck so I screwed up and tapped into the wrong wire

Finished look

Moving up to the map lights and rear ac controls, I found 12v power from the parking/headlights on the brown wire. This is the smallest plug with 3 wires

I filed down 2 led's for some ambient lighting... I drilled 2 holes into the map lights cover for the led's and wired those to the same brown wire

 

[Cattivo]

My phone really sucks and this is the best pic I could get without too much glare...I'll take some night time pics of everything later

For the ambient lighting I counter sank the 2 led's so they're recessed inside the cover, after filing them down roughly 1/4'' they now give off a nice blue glow rather than a bright blinding beam

To be continued The only easy day was yesterday

 

[Tonyrodz]

Great job. I bet that's gonna look sexy at night. Gotta take wifey out for a moonlight(led) drive.

 

[Cattivo]

Some night time shots, reminds me of an M1 Abrams with night vision selecting a target ...HOOYAH

 

[Cattivo]

Great job. I bet that's gonna look sexy at night. Gotta take wifey out for a moonlight(led) drive.

Thanks, it looks incredible inside the truck at night right now...these pics definitely don't show the true effects of the ambient lighting

Wifey's too spoiled to get into the Hoe lol

 

[Tonyrodz]

Some night time shots, reminds me of an M1 Abrams with night vision selecting a target ...OORAH

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Can that be dimmed? Like when you dim your dash if it's too bright.

 

[Cattivo]

Can that be dimmed? Like when you dim your dash if it's too bright.

Not the way I have them hooked up they can't... I could rewire them to dim if need be

 

[05Single]

When I had mine in my silverado I could dim them, but I always rolled with them at full brightness cause they just look so sick. Never bothered me at night when driving.

And I bet the camera makes them look slightly brighter than they really are.

Reminds me of a spaceship cause I wasn't in the army lol.

BTW nice job , lights look

 

[Cattivo]

When I had mine in my silverado I could dim them, but I always rolled with them at full brightness cause they just look so sick. Never bothered me at night when driving.

And I bet the camera makes them look slightly brighter than they really are.

Reminds me of a spaceship cause I wasn't in the army lol.

BTW nice job , lights look

Thanks, they're definitely not as bright as they appear in the pics, it's a nice even glow throughout.

My buddy wants me to do the same thing to his truck lol. The only thing that bothers me is the color of the cluster, that blue is just slightly different color wise...it's driving my O.C.D. crazy lol

 

[Fosscore]

Man this LED job is killer. Love seeing this progress and looks really good.

 

[#1taho]

I'm down to 3 trucks now, last night I signed the title over to my neighbors 16yo son(great kid!) for $1 ...he helped me a lot with the Jeep build last summer. I spray painted the entire truck blue as he wet sanded it and learned lots of different mods... I taught him how to install the carpet and hook up the insanely loud stereo system

Poor kids father passed away so hopefully I've helped create another ''car guy'' in his absence

Some before and after pics

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Brother. You just made some kids life. Great job.

 

[Cattivo]

Man this LED job is killer. Love seeing this progress and looks really good.

Thanks, as I've mentioned I'm not a big fan of soldering...The way that I'm installing them takes half as long as soldering them all in (risk of damaging a switch with a soldering iron) I can more or less put them exactly where I feel the led needs to be placed to fully light up a component.

I tried taking pics of every step for anyone who is not a fan of soldering as well. Only thing left is the foot wells, doors and the cargo area

 

[Cattivo]

Brother. You just made some kids life. Great job.

Thanks brother, I may have to get him his own tool box starter kit...he's already talking about swapping to an SRT engine lol

 

[05Single]

Thanks brother, I may have to get him his own tool box starter kit...he's already talking about swapping to an SRT engine lol

Srt4? Lol
Might be able to fit a 6.1......maybe

 

[#1taho]

Thanks brother, I may have to get him his own tool box starter kit...he's already talking about swapping to an SRT engine lol

I think you have successfully made him a car guy.

 

[Tonyrodz]

I think you have successfully made him a car guy.

And a believer in people.