LoJac963's H2 Build Thread

[ABNTROOP]

Yep, you're on track! Nice work man!

 

[RamRod]

Looking good!

 

[yariv]

Looking good:thumbs:

 

[LoJac963]

Well finally took the plunge and ordered new wheels because my stocker tires are dry rotted. Plenty of tread life but cracked to hell.

I went with Method Standard wheels in black with Kumho Road Venture MT's. The wheels are 17x9 with a 4.25" backspace. I wanted the wheels pushed out to look better with my flares. The stock wheels looked horrible sunken in with the extended flares.

Pics:

Tires are the same size but the new ones were over 2" taller for some odd reason:

Nice wide stance!

I was incredibly worried about the backspace not working but at 4.25" the tires are perfectly in line with the edge of the flares. The wide stance with the MT's gives the rig a completely different look. The pics don't do the Method wheels justice, they are hands down awesome in person!

 

[Bigunit]

Looks great. Now there's no excuse for not going wheeling and getting some dirt, mud, snow and scratches on those bad boys. Let me know when your ready and I'll drive up to the valley of the Sun Pigs to meet you on a trail.

 

[Peep]

Nice, nice and nice :thumbs:

 

[Bananatank]

Thats a nice looking tire! Looks great!

 

[LoJac963]

Looks great. Now there's no excuse for not going wheeling and getting some dirt, mud, snow and scratches on those bad boys. Let me know when your ready and I'll drive up to the valley of the Sun Pigs to meet you on a trail.

Most definitely. I see all the outings you guys go on up north and what not and I wish I could go. Once I get the front suspension beefed up and other things calm down (school, promotions at work, etc) I really want to join all the AZ guys on the trails!

Thanks everyone for the comments. First time I've actually bought wheels for any of my vehicles. I've always just stayed stock.

 

[citiboy]

Awesome looking set-up...any rubbing issues? how's the road noise? My Toyo MT's are a little noiser than the stock BFG and rubs on the frame when at full turn.

 

[LoJac963]

I'm sure you'll see my reply on the other forum, but for everyone else interested!

Just checked today and took her on a real ride on the new tires. No rubbing at all, stocks used to rub my passenger sway bar but with the backspacing on these they are no where even close to it now. The only place which is about 1.5" clearance is to the back of the wheel well at full lock on either side. Still plenty of room but I may pick up some keys to level out the front. With these tires being taller I only have maybe an inch clearance into the garage now.

 

[ffmf2101]

Awesome looking ride!!

 

[LoJac963]

Latest update.

Received a pair of Truck Lite LED headlights from a new member on a different forum, one hell of a guy in my book! The lights are military lights in 24 volt configuration. I had to add in 12-24 volt converters which aren't expensive at all so I figured why not. Lights are nice and bright. I only have the lows wired in right now as wiring in the highs will require 2 more converters. So down the road I'll get those going, I rarely use my highs and I didn't want to hold up the install. My HID's were giving me so many problems, so happy those things are gone!!

Onto the pics:

The install, you can see the converter is the aluminum box with the fins:

Pics of the lights off:

Lows:

I've read they are not as bright as HID's which I wouldn't imagine they would be. I can't wait to go for a night drive with them. I'm just so happy the HID's are gone!!

 

[LoJac963]

Small update:

I've been wanting to swap out my regular lights on the roof rack to LED, problem has been the height is so limited that finding low profile LED bars has been a problem.

Found these on Amazon for $12 each and they are a lot brighter than the old lights"

Pics:

Comparison, LED is obviously on the left:

Everything installed:

Also added another OTRATTW switch for my radar detector to hardwire it:

Was hoping it would completely cover the factory hole but there's still some visible on the side, oh well....

 

[LoJac963]

Latest Update:

Made a bracket from flat steel and installed 2 lights behind the mini grill:

I also added LED's to my lower fog light grill so everything matches, new grill lights and lower fog LED's:

Finally bought an AirDoc. I had to shorten the tube on each side because the Volant box pushed the MAF closer. I took off 2" at the box side and 1" at the engine side. Looks so much better without the giant stock tube/resonator:

That's it for right now. I still have other projects waiting to be installed.....

 

[06 H3]

where did u get the square led lights

 

[LoJac963]

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LBP43FG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They have higher wattage ones where the entire square is LED's but they are a little more expensive. I went with the circles to match the DRL's.

 

[4speedfunk]

I think I've seen this truck before....

[video=youtube;8MW3KJUa8FQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MW3KJUa8FQ[/video]

 

[IISPEEDYII]

Latest update.

Received a pair of Truck Lite LED headlights from a new member on a different forum, one hell of a guy in my book! The lights are military lights in 24 volt configuration. I had to add in 12-24 volt converters which aren't expensive at all so I figured why not. Lights are nice and bright. I only have the lows wired in right now as wiring in the highs will require 2 more converters. So down the road I'll get those going, I rarely use my highs and I didn't want to hold up the install. My HID's were giving me so many problems, so happy those things are gone!!

Onto the pics:

The install, you can see the converter is the aluminum box with the fins:

Pics of the lights off:

Lows:

I've read they are not as bright as HID's which I wouldn't imagine they would be. I can't wait to go for a night drive with them. I'm just so happy the HID's are gone!!

Do you know the part number for the headlights? I wonder if those would fit on an H3? Or if they have something that would fit

 

[LoJac963]

I'd have to look and see if the part number is visible from the back of the light. They are standard 7" round lights so they'd fit in any 7" housing. I'm not sure what the H3's have but if it's 7" they should work.

 

[IISPEEDYII]

I'd have to look and see if the part number is visible from the back of the light. They are standard 7" round lights so they'd fit in any 7" housing. I'm not sure what the H3's have but if it's 7" they should work.

I found them on the truck lite website I think! How did you mount them though? like they can't just sit in there

 

[LoJac963]

The H2's have the base and an outer ring which sandwiches the light between them. The outer ring attaches to the base with screws. It's just taken apart, stock light assembly removed and the new light installed. Actually extremely simple. I could never find any info on that so I just accepted the lights and pulled one apart and luckily everything worked out.

 

[LoJac963]

Newest update, finally installed an oil filter relocation kit. I was fed up with getting covered in oil trying to remove the stock oil filter and rigging up various things to drain the oil away from the crossmember. Another member did the same, I had bought kit previous and none of them worked but this kit was perfect:

Derale 15748:

I had originally thought about putting the filter sideways mounted to the hood bracket but I wanted something more stout so I ended up removing the driver side rock rail/steps and mounted the filter between the front body mount and first rock rail mount. The filter is protected by both but I mounted it a little low so it does hang down maybe 1/2 inch or so beneath the brackets. I don't make it a habit of running things over so I'm not concerned but I'll definitely keep an eye on it. If I would have mounted it any higher the bolts would have interfered with the upper mounting bolt for the rock rail.

The filters the kit call for are absolutely gigantic, none of the options are for Mobil 1 so I found the equivalent:

Compared to the stock filter:

I ended up finding another filter, same diameter as the stock filter but longer, only one with the correct threads which was the one I went with:

Mounted off the truck:

Back on the rig:

Engine side:

Hell of a project, I spent more time trying to figure out where to mount the filter because I mainly wanted to keep it out of the engine compartment. Plus there wasn't much room underneath with all the exhaust piping which is why I chose outside the frame rail.

I'm also working on swapping all my hold halogens on my roof rack with LED's so more pics to come!

 

[LoJac963]

Finally changed all my junk halogens on the front of the roof rack over to LED bars:

From Amazon, nothing to expensive but they are very bright and look to be very well sealed. The driver side is slightly different as the others I ordered were different. I had to modify the other 3 bars brackets so I may change out that driver side so they're all the exact same but it will work for now.

I also swapped out my Truklite LED headlights for Philips 75 watt LED headlights. I like the Philips much better, the lows cast light everywhere not just in spots. The highs are decent but I still need to get them aimed down.

Here's the lights with the DRL's on:

Lows:

Highs turn all the LED's on which adds more of a longer thrown spot:

Couple pics of everything on just for fun:

 

[mantracker]

I really like those roof rack LEDs, and the new head lights. Very nice.

 

[LoJac963]

I really like those roof rack LEDs, and the new head lights. Very nice.

Thanks I appreciate it. I've put a lot of work into this rig in both custom and bolt ons.