lucky. tht is an awsome find

 

Lucky find!

(I'm wearing my jealous face right now)

 

Not me, I'm pulling up while he's out to YOINK IT! lol...... jk, hahaha.

 

i don't think it actually exists.

nothing exists until there's a picture of it.

so, um, brian... does this "topper" exist?

 

Thanks Mark, I didn't grab the wheels although maybe i should have...





Look at the pics below!!

 

Yeah! I didnt take any pics of the frame, its in the shed.




And got my relays

 

Relays for lights and maybe amp??? hmMMM??????lol. Looks nice, Brian..... WOW, what a great find!

Congratz

 

hey man you thought about dying the soft top??? we dyed the soft top on my dads jeep black and it turned out pretty good. truck is looking good as usual

 

That could work, BG, .....I think it might look good though, no? Maybe try it on before dying it, etc? They make fabric paint that worked pretty good for me, too. Isn't that thing seriously weatherproofed, too? Might have to strip that stuff before the dye, no?

Sorry, I'm actually curious, not doubting you, BG, hahaha.

 

looks great and if it does not work for you I will buy it from you can paint truck to match top let me know if you want to flip it

 

ya chef we used that duplicolor fabric paint and it actually surprised us alot.

 

Yeah its for the lights. Although i do have an amp and speakers.

Eh i've thought about it but i'd rather not mess with it.

Ehh i'd rather not go through that hassle.

hahah i like the yellow too much!

 

speakers show up yet?

and great snag on the can-back! another cl find: i'm going to check out a light bar tomorrow. bar, 2 fog lights, and 2 kc's for the same price you paid. i'm gonna try to talk him down to 60

 

GREAT find on the light bar and lights!! Talk him down as low as possible!!

Got the speakers last night, look what happened i'm going to call UPS and see if they can't do anything about it. They treat the packages like such crap and then things break, that makes me mad. The one is good though.



P.S. I meant to ask you, how can i wire up my lights to the relays with a 5 pronged relay?

 

check out the last 5 pages of mark's build. it's all about using relays and troubleshooting. but basically, you don't use the middle pin (87a)

bummer man, hope ups gets their act together

and the guy wouldn't go below 70 for the bar, but i picked it up this morning. just needs to be adjusted and cleaned. i think i'm gonna put the kc's on my bumper, fog lights below the bumper and put 4 matching lights up top

 

Alright ill have to check out his build thread.

Yeah i was pretty disappointed when i saw that.

$70 is not bad for that bar and lights lol. That assortment of lights sounds good. Have fun wiring lol.

 

always do

i think i'll do a write-up so that others may install lights with ease

 

Now there's an idea!

 

Hey Brian, ....

I was in the process of doing a really nice, simple "Hooking up Offroad lights to Grill/Bumper Bar 'For Dummies' " thread, ........because that's what I was when it came to this stuff, .....just days ago! hahaha. I'm a very visual learner, so I have a plan to lay it all out, step by step, starting with "Which lights? Very important", .....then, "What type of switch?", .....then, "Which type of relay/'Dual Relays, joined with the 87A pin?", etc., etc. ..... with tons of pics and a good video.... BUT, ...I'm just too busy until Thanksgiving is over.

I've read TONS of articles, etc., pertaining to off road lights.... and MOST that really sounded solid in knowledge and obviously used/hooked them up/tested many of them, personally, said, "Lights on the grill/light bar on bumper are far more useful and effective, first. Roof lights can also be very useful, but start with the front"..... This one Aussie expert was also explaining that he wanted to have a Quick-Disconnect for the top lights, ....because, well, in the outback coastal stuff, he often ripped them off when testing, etc....so, he wanted to have an easy option for quick-release for those trips into the woods/jungle type atmosphere, hahaha.

Anyway, I might have time, tonight, to finish writing/constructing the thread, ....but if Ian is doing one(a much more electronically apt person than myself, lol)....then you might not have to wait for that 'extra visual aid', hahaha. I'm going to do a video walk through TOTALLY unlike those I've found on Youtube...THEY'RE AWEFUL, almost every single one that I found left me asking, "WAIT.....WHAT?????" LOL. Plus, most of them were done VERY messy.

For example.... I ran my switch wire to relay under the carpet, then through the fender plug/rubber grommet for the antenna, up to the harness entry behind the battery, then heat shrunk it in with the 'positive terminal wire to 30 PIN' wire. ALL CLEAN! lol. I also taped of every inch of the flex loom that I didn't use heat shrink on(heat shrink is best, because it has double layers inside with glue, etc.... and it LITERALLY seals, totally, the wiring and solder connections....BUT, the flex IS NEEDED where the wires will be rubbing on something, etc.). I kept the ground short, under the inner fender well lip, etc...

Anyway, I'm working on how I'll do the video, the links I'll post to diagrams, etc., and then some bullets with all the GREAT points and 'THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR' points that all the good guys on my thread provided. I just can't get to it until tonight or tomorrow night, lol. I'm doing an alarm soon, too, but might have it done(they do it for almost free in Los Angeles, hoping you'll buy LOTS OF GOODIES from them, lol).

Sorry bout the speakers, bud! STINKS!

 

PS> I'm not arguing with Ian,.....but I will say that IT WAS NOT easy, regarding 'routing' and 'remembering which sequence to slip on heat shrink, etc.', 'where you allow a port for a wire to come out of the loom', 'soldering in certain situations where you can't really do it out of the truck'.... things like that..... but YES, it was MUCH easier than I'd originally considered it....You just need 'TIME' and to remember,...."once you get started, you might not be able to drive it if you can't finish it up quickly.

One thing I would have done different to avoid that, .....I would have waited to do the wiring to the lights, themselves, till the very last step. Even then, I'd have tested them first, before I mounted and flex loomed them in behind the light housing, etc. I didn't wanna cut anything, so I ended up having to leave them hooked up....which meant I couldn't drive it(CA law men are REALLY anal about the 'lights without covers' thingymadoer law! lol.