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Lightforce 170's installed....
A few things first.
1. Thanks to those whole helped me with the my wiring ?'s. It wasn't that hard, I just tend to overthink things 2. Thanks to Wil and Wen at Sierra Expeditions. Great to work with. :banger: 3. For those 3rd gen 4runner owners with the Shrockworks bumper. If you decide to get a set of Lightforce 170 lights they will not fit in the holes provide by Shrockworks. You have to drill new holes about 1-1/2" over from the exiting holes and request the low light mounts. Otherwise the lights will be too tall by roughly 1/4 - 3/8". Thanks to Wil for the new mounts. 4. My mounting setup is for the Shrockworks bumper with the single hoop. 5. I reversed the lights mounts so no modification was required to the grill (have about a 3/8 -1/2" clearance). 6. The wiring hook up for the lights suck!!! The crappie connectors they supply you with in the wiring kit are junk (IMO). I ended up destory two of them. 7. Thanks to Johnny Lange of the Wasatch Cruisers for helping to mount the aux fuse block and fuse. Okay, so here are the pictures after that little rant/soap box :sombrero:. Pardon the dirty battery. I still need to do some clean-up. Aux fuse block mounting bracket (see #7). Kind of took us awhile to fiqure out where to mount the block since there are not that many good places in the 4runner's engine bay to mount it too. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...1025091305.jpg Aux. Fuse http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0107.jpg Since I already have a set of PIAA fog lights installed I had to fiqure out a new mounting location of the lightforce relays. The best solution I could come up with was to mount it where the control for my DRL's was. Since I already disconnected them prior to this in seemed like a good place. Where the module used too be: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...1025091328.jpg Relay installed http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...1025091336.jpg I ended up mounting the inline fuse to the bolt/location that I have the relay for my other lights installed. By the way the mounting hole in the inline fuse is a little small. All of the wiring I tried to run along the left side fender under some of the hose's which made for some fun times. Aux. fuse block all buttoned up. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0106.jpg The stock switch proivded with the wiring kit again sucks but that's my opinion so I picked up another factory switch. Only thing I have to do is run a ground wire so it will light up. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0102.jpg The finished product http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../IMG_01031.jpg The clearance issue I mentioned in #3 and 5 above. The lights sit pretty flush/inline with the front of the hoop. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0104.jpg I'll post up some night time pictures tonight once it gets a little darker. |
All lite up (this was the only to come out decent since my camera doesn't take very good night time photo's)
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looks good, how easy was that fuse panel to set up? I remember you asking about before.
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looks good really liking that bumper i got mine mounted on the stock bumper and i love them best 50 dollars ive spent so far
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Duuuuuude. Joined the club :D. I LOVE these lights. Been running them for about 4 years. I'll be getting new reflector housings from SierraExpeditions *hopefully* this week, but shipping always takes a long time to Alaska. Beautiful setup as well :great:
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NICE WORK MAN!
Great looking bumper too! :great: |
Looks great but why do your tires look so narrow/skinny?
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Originally Posted by Matt90V6SR5
(Post 51262729)
Looks great but why do your tires look so narrow/skinny?
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I like the fuse box! Where did you get that?
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Originally Posted by crawlerjunkie
(Post 51262598)
looks good, how easy was that fuse panel to set up? I remember you asking about before.
Originally Posted by Matt90V6SR5
(Post 51262729)
Looks great but why do your tires look so narrow/skinny?
Originally Posted by cpizzle42
(Post 51262941)
I like the fuse box! Where did you get that?
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Well, another little item I picked up when I bought the lights were the Blue colored lens. I thought they would be a good investment for the winter time up here in Utah. You know for when I want to go play in the snow. :nerd:
Any who these are the Combo lenses - pencil beam with a wide beam. The clear covers aren't that great in the snow since thye produce a little too much glare. Tried that out this morning on my way to work. So I went out tonight to Canyon Creek (just a short little trail)to see how they looked and truth be told I had a blast with them. That which is blue: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0117.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0118.jpg Without the flash on: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0132.jpg Headlights alone - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0140.jpg Lightforce light with my Piaa fog lights turned on - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0139.jpg Lightforce by themselves - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0141.jpg It was interesting trying out the lights with different settings 1. Headlights only 2. Fog lights by themselves 3. Fog lights plus headlights 4. Lightforce with fog lights 5. Lightforce by themselves 6. Headlights plus Lightfoce 7. Headlights plus fog lights plus Lightforce. Lets not forget the high beams, which adds another four combs to the mix. :con: Having that main combinations is interesting. I found myself on the return trip just running my fog lights and the Lightforce lights all with no other lights on (got to love removing the DRL module :sombrero:). Running the Lightforce lights just by themselves was quite interesting. They provide plenty of light to drive with but I found that just running them by themselves kind of threw off a little how different obstacles/objects in the road looked. When I ran them with the fog lights in corrected that problem for the most part. I felt all sneakie, sneakie just runnning the fog lights or Lightforce lights by themselves. :victory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lYBVi3ALWA As you can you tell I'm very happy with this purchase. I wonder how those inferred light covers do?? :hillbill: One other benefit of this little run was I found out where I having been rubbing at under full flex. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0123.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0124.jpg Saw this little feller and his friend playing around. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0122.jpg Was going to cross this but not this late at night. Kind of hard to see how deep it was. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_0126.jpg |
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