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FloridaH3

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Rockhound said:
installed a foot switch for my lights
They are temporary (good thing they were cheap) temporary because they don't throw the light down the road as far as they claimed to. They are awesome trail lights though, extremely bright and a wide, wide pattern. I want them to go way down the road to spot deer/elk while i am crusing rural roads in Colorado. I will be going back to the hella 500s i have had on previous rigs. The hella 500s reach way out there..
I want to be able to use them as my brights at night on those back country roads. It's a pain to have to reach out to the dash every time i want them turned on or off. They are already on a switch that is right next to the steering column. Coming around a corner, down shifting, does not leave my hand free to dim the lights for oncoming traffic. Foot switch is the easy solution...

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That’s how my old 77 f100 high beams work. Switch on the floor from the factory. Much more comfortable if you ask me, even if you had an automatic.


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Finished up my onboard air system today, what a damn pain!

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Nice work!
I can see why you have it mounted that way but it seems it would be better to clock it abit so it doesnt drag on the ground and damage that connector pointing downwards if you do some offroading.
 
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dont you want to get your compressors out from under the truck? Not sure they will like deep water, snow or ice? Snow and Ice are probably not an issue for you :)
 
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FloridaH3 said:
That’s how my old 77 f100 high beams work. Switch on the floor from the factory. Much more comfortable if you ask me, even if you had an automatic.


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I have had offroad lights on several rigs over the last 20 years, I have alwasy said I was going to do this mod to one of them... Easily my favorite mod so far.
 
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When i bought the h3 it had one key that would start the truck, but would not open the door. This weekend i swapped out the ignition cylinder and the lock cylinder for new parts with matching keys. Easy job...
 
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Been wanting to keep some oh $hit tools and a impact gun with me at all times. Was looking high and low for a box or case that wouldn't eat too much space in the bed. Seeing how the high lift jack gets in the way at times, I thought under it would be a perfect spot, this is what I came up with!

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added some new trail backup lights

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Replaced a ton of stuff up front. New hubs, wheel bearings, upper control arm, lower ball joint, tie rods, sway bar links. Was a full weekend project but glad I did it. Had never worked on suspension stuff so the balljoint pressing was fun lol. I also started bleeding the brakes with the calipers off the rotors which added some time and aggravation to the project lol. I was like (damn why can’t I get any pressure) LOL. Insane increase in drivability as all parts were 223k miles old. Glad I did it and it turned out that horrible grinding i heard was the wheel bearing so glad I don’t have to replace the diff like thought I did.
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Finally have it rolling with the SAS and SOA. Still some tweaking to do before Moab. BIG thanks to SLCHummer for lending me some parts to make it in time for the Salt Lake Off-road Expo.
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Picked this up!
Not everyone's taste, I know.

Plans are to get some new bolt covers, retrofit some lights. Then add marker lights to the A pillars only. Should help with the clean and simple look.
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My Chinesium All Aluminum radiator decided to leak. It lasted about a year and a half maybe two.

It appears to be leaking at the bottom where the fins meet the tank.


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cgalpha08 said:
Picked this up!
Not everyone's taste, I know.

Plans are to get some new bolt covers, retrofit some lights. Then add marker lights to the A pillars only. Should help with the clean and simple look.
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I know you already got them but Ill give you my experience, esp since once you put holes in your roof you're pretty much committed!!!
I have it on my 06 and honestly its useless. It glares alot on the windshield and the hood. Since I have a white truck, the hood really glows and ends up ruining my night vision (my eyes end up adapting to the light reflecting back from the hood I cant see in the dark anymore)
I actually can see better without it than with it! Whats worse is if you have some dust on the windshield, those glow too. I end up using the windshield wipers to clean it but since I drive in the desert its hopeless!
Finally, they make alot of wind noise when going above 70.

The problem with those lights is that the mouting location and the flood beam. If they were 2" forward or backword the windshield glare would be gone. The hood can be solved by adding some black vinyl or black magnetic sheets, or even adding a stripe of window tinting to the bottom part of the windshield (enough to block what you see from the hood)
 
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Got a new starter for the alpha. The old one would give me issues once the truck is warm and id have to wait 20 mins everytime I park before its cool enough to start again. I got one that fits a camaro , cheaper than the one recommended for the alpha and its a new part. It sounds different but works as expected.

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