My 5 Alarm Hoe

[Tonyrodz]

I want to put gauges in the Hoe so bad! But, she won't let me. lol
I have a spare set that I was going to swap in the GN.

 

[Cattivo]

I want to put gauges in the Hoe so bad! But, she won't let me. lol
I have a spare set that I was going to swap in the GN. View attachment 77130

Those would look great in the A pillar or mounted on the hood. When it comes to women and mods you gotta barter with them, buy her a nice pair of shoes and you get to install your gauges...win win

 

[05Single]

That trip piece pops out so you can cut that inside the house instead of doing it inside the truck.

 

[Cattivo]

That trip piece pops out so you can cut that inside the house instead of doing it inside the truck.

I was cutting it outside because little pieces of plastic go flying everywhere with the dremel, I pulled it off and cut it up on a metal dumpster lol...my wife would kill me if I made that kind of mess in the house

 

[05Single]

I was cutting it outside because little pieces of plastic go flying everywhere with the dremel, I pulled it off and cut it up on a metal dumpster lol...my wife would kill me if I made that kind of mess in the house

Haha yea my wife would too

 

[Tonyrodz]

Haha yea my wife would too

Lol, kick your ass!

 

[Cattivo]

I took a few measurements for the 52mm gauges and cut them out of the abs plastic trim piece today...disregard the screws in every corner, I put them in temporarily to keep everything tight while the jb weld was drying and hit it with the heat gun to get a smoother radius

After everything was dry I removed the screws and attempted to attach the 4d carbon fiber wrap with the heat gun (first time I've ever attempted this before so don't laugh too hard)

They fit nice and tight like a glove

 

[Cattivo]

That's a lot of carbon fiber wrap!!! another e bay order I screwed up after a shit load of beers , I only needed 3'x3' lmao

I was being rushed by my wife and kinda screwed it up...I'll have to redo it when I have time

This is how I was distracted every 5 minutes... I will spare you the mean text messages she sent me lmao

 

[PG01]

Lolololol.....good stuff

 

[Fosscore]

Lmao... yep had those errr "disagreements" too. House or truck projects.

 

[Cattivo]

Well the park was fun but I'll wait till the weekend to attempt the cf wrap again...looks like I need to watch a lot more youtube videos on how to apply it correctly, not as easy as I thought lol

Hopefully she won't notice that I block her and I can get some work done lmao

 

[Tonyrodz]

That's a lot of carbon fiber wrap!!! another e bay order I screwed up after a shit load of beers , I only needed 3'x3' lmao

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I was being rushed by my wife and kinda screwed it up...I'll have to redo it when I have time
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This is how I was distracted every 5 minutes... I will spare you the mean text messages she sent me lmao

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Oh yes, married life.

 

[Cattivo]

I started taking measurements for the color matched sun visor and marker lights yesterday, it fits perfectly in place. I went ahead and installed the 5 marker lights onto the visor after lots of measuring...I didn't want to drill into the visor without being 100% sure that everything lined up so I used painters tape to hold them in place and move them around until they looked just right. I chose this style visor to avoid drilling lots of holes into the roof and pulling the headliner...I also managed to break the rain guard on the rear passenger door lol oh well they were cheap garbage the po installed anyway...I'll replace them with some weather techs later on

 

[Cattivo]

This is as far as I got for now...just need to mount the visor and wire everything up

 

[MadDogDelpho]

Now time for a big obnoxious eyebrow lightbar above it

 

[Cattivo]

I got the visor and marker lights installed but still need to bring the rest of the wire inside the truck...and thanks to @MadDogDelpho he created more work for me lol.

I went ahead and installed the 52'' curved lightbar on the roof...that also needs to be wired up as well...I really wish I had a damn ladder, my knees are killing me from climbing up and down, back and forth a million times lol

 

[Cattivo]

To be continued...

 

[MadDogDelpho]

HAHAHA fantastic! That thing looks mean lol. And an easy place to run the wires for the lightbar is just down the stripping right by the windshield, straight into the engine compartment.

 

[PG01]

Drive up tomorrow and borrow a step ladder, no prob...

 

[Cattivo]

HAHAHA fantastic! That thing looks mean lol. And an easy place to run the wires for the lightbar is just down the stripping right by the windshield, straight into the engine compartment.

That's where I plan on running all the wires, only thing that sucks is I couldn't use the better lightbar brackets because they wouldn't fit with the visor in the way now...I had to use the regular cheap looking brackets. I may have to have a pair custom made