truck is freaking sweet dude...
your truck lowered is the reason i bought mine

 

Great looking truck

 

LOVE IT :thumbup:

 

super nice job. man i love those novakanes.. looks much better with a wider rim on there

 

I always wondered what your truck looked like. I must say very nice :thumbup:

 

Very Nice Truck!

 

:thumbup: looking good!


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The lowered look was pretty rockin, but I'm more stoked about the change of heart!

 

Nice work for sure!

 

nice transition!

 

Looking good

 

AWESOME Truck

 

yeah that truck is pretty badass. how's the w3 sound?

 

Thanks everyone.


Sounds pretty good, no complaints from me; although one day I'd like to switch to a ported enclosure and see what I can get out of it that way, I'm just to lazy to build another box when this one works and sounds good.

 

one of my favs

 

Good looking Rado you got. Like the transition.

 

The truck looks great

 

Looks good

 

Like the way the Tahoe rims looked on there. What size of tires were on there after the lift?

 

Nevermind, I read it on your profile.

 

33x12.50x20 Kumho Road Venture M/T's

 

What did you do to make your 9005 fit in your reverse?


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Here's a few pics of how I did it, I took a set of bulb sockets I had that were laying around (I think that they were from when I did the dual blinker mod, I kept the ones I cut off for just in case, guess that paid off) I cut everything off of the back and hollowed out all of the guts from the socket and epoxied the headlight bulb into the old socket. Heres some pics where you can see the assembled pieces already epoxied together. The epoxy I used was just a two-part plastic epoxy that I picked up from the auto parts store.

The light gray part is whats left of the old running light bulb socket, you can see where the headlight bulb is epoxied onto what is left of the socket.

Instead of soldering to the bulb leads I just went to the auto parts store and picked up a couple of replacement headlight harnesses, in my case they were 9005 harnesses. I've already crimped on male spade connectors in these pics.

And plugged into the bulb with the male spades crimped on ready for install.

And installed into the housing.

And one last bit of advise, pay attention to how you epoxy the bulb to the old socket, I just assumed that they would be the same and they were 180* opposites, so the passenger side was fine and I had to cut out a small section to clear the bulb on the driver side. I would deffinetly recommend assembling everything the way you want it and then epoxy each taillight individually with the tail of the bulb pointing up to clear the metal behind the taillight.

You can see in this pic where I had to clearance the metal for the taillight and the t-taps in the reverse light wiring to connect these bulbs. I chose to leave the factory reverse light sockets in place and just tape them up in case for some reason I wanted or needed to go back to stock.

 

Very nice truck! You have put that in the best of both world's, but I think you bought another one & you are hiding it in the back or something :kiki:

 

Awesome mod cuzican. Ill for sure be doing this soon. Your truck is for sure one of my favorites. The bmf's are sick as hell.


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why did you do that?

 

I think it is for his reverse bulbs. This way he can put headlight bulbs in there. The black on your truck is sooooo clean!

Ding ding ding. Winner winner, chicken dinner.

It sucked trying to back up and night, not being able to see anything, now my reverse lights light up my neighbors fence plain as day when I back out of my garage, and it's 75ft away.