Tow Mater

Got the uprights for the rack installed. Hopefully find out soon how sturdy they are

 

Starting to take shape

 

Nice!

 

Give me a rating of 1-10 on the ridiculous scale.. go

 

Kids driving their truck with a rack on the back. Must be on their way to Sedona..Pretty accurate description


Checking his solar panel..

 

Old solar panel mounted and fire extinguisher mount. Not sure if this needs to be out of the weather; we’ll see how it holds up

 

Picked up this guy today. The old lady came with me and wasn’t too impressed when she found out what the “surprise” was. “Don’t you already have enough lights?..”


I was also told nothing good ever happens after 2am.. wonder if that includes hotshot offroad orders, too

 

Light bar installed. The all Amber look is starting to grow on me. Install was not as easy as the videos make it out to be. Already got blood and sweat; just waiting on the tears

 

New chase lights?




Price was right..


Also put smoked covers on the ssc2s


edit: wired them up tonight and pointed them skyward. They aren’t kidding about being able to light stuff up a mile down the road; probably could be classified as searchlights

 

Tossed on an awning


Started a wiring project

as you can see the box was nice and smooth when I started

Scraped up by the end

New to me weboost works

and bought this guy to raise and lower it


so a whole bunch of projects to finish up

 

Test fit the bumper

 

Sub panel box. Blocks the light but sacrifices need to be made


Connectors assembled for 16/4

 

Attach this to your light....fixed!

 

Hahah now we’re talking. Might as well get a little crazy and put some prisms in there..



I’ll have to check it out at night and see what the deal is. That side of the box is pretty shiny so it might bounce right back into my eyes. Could relocate the light but more than likely will leave it and just add some Matt geckos or something like that

 

Lights off

Lights on

 

How do you like the Yakima rails on your TCUSA cover? Are they rated for a RTT?

And what front bumper is that?

Dig the build.

 

I like the Yakima rails on the cover but their purpose kinda got defeated by the toolbox. The toolbox is still slightly proud of the top of the Yakima crossbar, so I had to figure out different ways of mounting things. For instance, skis had to have the tips facing the tailgate in order to have the rears clear the toolbox and snowboards mounted bindings/tips up.

Not sure if they’re rated for a RTT. I will say that I’ve seen many people drive around with sketchier looking setups and they seem to be fine. I originally was going to mount my rack to the rails but after speaking with a couple people on here decided to not stack load tolerances and bolted it to the bedside using the funky looking floating brackets to separate the loads. Looking back on it, I probably should have just bolted the rack right to the Yakima rails. It would have been fine.

And that’s the Demello bumper. Stout and after seeing what Cruzer does to his, not too worried about it

 

Panel is wired up. Sure will be nice to blow dry my hair … errrr run power tools at the campsite

 

Did a quick mock-up of the weboost antenna. Started to dial in the erect and collapsed positions on the motor.
https://youtube.com/shorts/fJQ1m7nOwWU?feature=share

Fit the switch too

 

Do you think the motor for the weboost will hold up when erect and vehicles in use?

 

Motor is a diamond k9000. I thought about having the weboost raise from tailgate towards hood, but figured the plastic gears might strip from hard accelerations/stops. So I spun it 90 degrees so that the stress is reduced on the gears and mostly on the bolt holding the antenna mount to the motor housing and housing itself (based off my high school/college physics proficiency). Time will tell. I’ll be sure to keep people posted

 

Looks like things are coming together nicely. That rack looks familiar.

 

yes sir! Thank you

you ever get the Leitner on?

 

Yes i did.

Working on the suspension now. Icons lost 1inch up front after rxt pack install. Removed a leaf to see if that resolves the issue.

 

After consulting with @Wallygator I decided to redo my PV wiring and tied the rack solar panel into this new PV input using one of the legs in the 16/4 that goes to the rack. Was able to reuse the old fridge Anderson connector and wiring for a lot of this. Plan is to put Anderson connectors on the old PV wires and use them as extension cords should I ever want to run a portable panel at a campsite.

this arrived

to ship these back to arb to be rebuilt

 

Very nice build!

 

Thanks!

 

Paging @RainMan_PNW and @Terndrerrr. Was driving home last night and Nils from TC USA drove by in his gladiator and I noticed he had a Yakima rack in the back. Thought to myself “hmm, that doesn’t seem right” and dropped by there today before lunch. Turns out they have a new HD rail system (not like my old Yakima rails) that works with the Yakima overhaul HD rack (and I assume outpost, too). Has a skirt that goes around the landing pad area and looks really nice. Sorry, forgot to grab a photo of it on the gladiator. Give them a call if you’re interested. I can also go back and grab a photo if you need me to. It still sits above (ie, not built in like retrax) but better than nothing. I asked about creating rails like retrax and they said no plans.

while I was there the nice ladies gave this to me for free since my old one snapped off