Topic: Mod Day: Duff's Landing - Saturday February 21, 2015

[RBduffer]

Well Clint, without your help it might take til 1:30, but with Steve's help it will probably be closer to 4:30

[Ghost65]

Well Clint, without your help it might take til 1:30, but with Steve's help it will probably be closer to 4:30

 

Thank you very much for hosting Randy...just awesome.

Steve...I will keep that Deaver info in my back pocket, good to know. 

Have fun guys...I will be tending the Nursery from 8-4.

[steve c]

I'm running about 30 minutes late. Should be there around 9:30.
Stupid work.

[JFanaselle]

Special thanks to Duffman for hosting us. I got my add-a-leaf installed and it looks and rides EXCELLENT! (photos to follow in my build thread as soon as I can take some). Looks like Duke562(rmaligie) never did show up... did anyone ever hear from him?

[RBduffer]

Yeah, Duke PMed me Friday night.  He got stuck pulling an extra shift. 
If you wern't there you missed out on fun, food, beer and cookies.  Even Jordan brought his GF Jill to 'celebrate' her birthday.
And we got a lot of work done

[Duke562(rmaligie)]

Yeah double shifts suck ! I was hoping to get those parts installed . Oh well next time , glad work  got done on other vehicles.


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[Motorpig77]

Thanks Duffman! Even though I got there late,  it was good to see everyone and get some stuff done!  Looking forward to the trail!

[steve c]

Great seeing you and your kids, Clint!

Thanks for the skidplates.

Those led lights you have on your roof rack, can the common man obtain those? 

[Motorpig77]

Yes they can Steve!  I went with Tuff LEDS from Amazon.com  

These are the side lights...

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009ES619S/

And these are the front lights...

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009F83LAY/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?qid=1424672949&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&keywords=tuff+led+18+watt&dpPl=1&dpID=41VqsClKcjL&ref=plSrch/

[JFanaselle]

Or are you talking about the "blinky" ones, Steve?

[steve c]

I was talking about the cool ones with the amber, white and 3rd brake light. 

Joe, linky me to blinky please. 

[steve c]

Here are some photos from the day.

I got some new, beefier battery terminals.  Jordan installed them for me.
Joe added some sweet add-a-leafs and now his ride is sitting sweet!
I also got a Loadwarrior from FrankB and did a little rust remediation and paint. 

Mod Day: Duff's Landing - Saturday February 21, 2015

Mod Day: Duff's Landing - Saturday February 21, 2015

Mod Day: Duff's Landing - Saturday February 21, 2015

Mod Day: Duff's Landing - Saturday February 21, 2015

Mod Day: Duff's Landing - Saturday February 21, 2015

Mod Day: Duff's Landing - Saturday February 21, 2015

Mod Day: Duff's Landing - Saturday February 21, 2015

[JFanaselle]

Pretty sure he is running the Whelen TIR3 lights. Actually, it looked like the Galls version, which are still made by Whelen but sold under the Galls name and have slightly different flange (and are just as bright!).

If so, they would be these ones here: http://www.galls.com/galls-surface-mount-led-light?PMSRCE=92350001&SESSIONID=000000126837833

Search around on their site a bit, because they sell them in packages of two or four as well with a little bit of savings. You can also search google, amazon or ebay for "TIR3" and find all kinds of them - both genuine whelen and generic.

I'll let Clint chime in with how he did the install, but it looks like he just mounted six of the lightheads to a bar and mounted the bar to his roof rack. The light heads typically come with a small flange and rubber gasket for the back that allows them to mount on any flat surface, and there are countless brackets available for them (the most common one being a small "L" style bracket that allows you to mount them the way Clint has his).

You might have a hard time bying the red ones from certain retailers, but people use them all the time as 3rd brake lights (especially on motorcycles) so it is do-able.

[Motorpig77]

Joe is correct, I bought those lights from galls and also bought three of the "two light" L brackets, drilled some holes in the bar of my roof rack and wired them up! I used a 4 pin trailer harness for the power / ground wires so I could easily disconnect them when I remove the roof rack.  Pretty easy setup, I wired the brake lights right through the third brake light, and the white lights are through the cargo lamps that my frontier has.  I then ran a separate power line up to the flashy lights. 

As for Galls, I'm not sure how they'd react to selling the red lights.  I know I "verified" my account with them years ago through my employer...but I don't think they restrict the red LED's at all. 

[Celt]

Remember you be knowin people who be knowin people and them people who be knowin people know how to get them things done.