[GUTim]

Sweet truck mate, can I ask where you got the projectors from? and how much they were?

 

[Jamie4800]

Mick off the forum mate, he seems to be telling everybody, really helpful guy. Recommended!! As for price depends what set up you want, few options etc

http://www.patrol4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82037

 

[kimba11]

awesome GU mate, clearly not afraid to get a bit hands on, its awesome to see.
I was reading in the paper the other day about auxillary lighting, spotties etc on 4wds, they talked in WA, every spotlight must be one of a pair and when you use them you have to follow all sorts of bull twang protocol.
In saying that, ive seen hundreds of 4bies with similar lighting to yours, but all it takes is that one day where a cop isnt having such a good day

 

[Jamie4800]

Yeah mate I've heard that rule quite a few times, really have to get a grumpy cop to pick you up for one of those silly rules, not like you actually have your spotties turned on when people are looking at you right? Oh well there seems to be heaps of rules like that, rod holders etc. Same rules always apply, keep it clean and tidy, don't drive like a fockhead and you should be right.

 

[kimba11]

definately man, keep your truck clean and tidy and you cant go wrong, i definately think we have better coppers over here than over east

 

[Jamie4800]

Ok did a couple things during break.

Picked her up from the mechanics, new safari tuff clutch installed, gone are the days of the heart wrenching gear grinding changes Also had the Air idle Control Valve replaced, fixed my idle up verrrrry nicely, was sitting around the 1500 rpm mark now sits as low as 600 rpm. Took a little while to get used to seeing as with the high idle before and my clutch engaging about 1 mm off the floor, it would jerk forward at the slightest twitch of the foot, now it’s a lot more civilized, requiring a bit of stink to get up and going smoothly. Also had my throttle body well and truly scrubbed out, they found a tiny grub screw missing which was causing the butterfly valves to stick making for terribly jerky acceleration. This is all sweet now

Also did a fair bit more work on the projector install, got almost everything done, still need to work out a way of painting the indicators black without destroying them…again, doesn’t look too horrendous in the chrome but definitely needs attention. Need to tidy all of the wiring for these new additions. Causing other issues… which brings me to my next point :-/

After all my screwing around with wiring for all the lights I seem to have created an issue. All of the reverse lights now cease to continue working; this also affects my floodlight and reverse camera activation. The lights are actually receiving a tiny amount of power, you can just see the element glowing slightly. Might be to do with all the normal reverse lights (two halogen in the tailights, and two LED in the rear bar) all tracing back to the one standard reverse light cable at the rear, which also serves as the activation for my reverse camera and floodlight really overlooked that one quite a great deal so now my spotties and one projector is also playing up, sometimes one spottie comes on sometimes two, sometimes all three, sometimes none, can be any combination, often switching from one side the other.

All of these symptoms are telling me that not so well thought out wiring and bad earths are to blame, gonna run over the whole car next break and go crazy on it all, thicker cables, better connectors, relays, it’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a while but always slips to the bottom of the priority list Get everything super neat and tidy, over engineered and working flawlessly gonna upgrade all the car’s main chassis / body earth points, I do have LOT a extra lighting and never really added it all up.

2 x HID headlights
3 x HID spotties.
6 x LED park lights
2 x CFFL devil eyes
10 x indicators
4 x taillights
5 x brake lights
4 x reverse lights
1 x LED reverse floodlight
6 x marker lights

Think I have enough yet? Haha, couple of LED light bars and I think I’ll be finished.

Worse thing was my newly fixed idling problem turned into the opposite problem, now unlike what it was doing when I got it fixed, it fails to idle higher after cold starts, making the engine idle too low when cold, subsequently leading to stalling on start up unless you held down the accelerator a little, not at all ideal I spoke to the bloke who fixed it and he said any shorts and / or voltage drops effect the computer and sensor readings and will screw up the idle, I found this strange to believe but, but it tied in perfectly with my other issues, no mention of these had been given to the mechanic. I was actually quite pleased with his diagnosis and yet again did it reassure my faith in the quality workmanship and specific knowledge that the establishment possessed

 

[Jamie4800]

few snaps...

Completed lights, painted the shrouds black too, i think it looks heaps better

with the LED angel eyes on, these things are amazingtly bright, match my other LED parkers nicely. impossible to take a photo that shows a realistic representation, they are a clear defined ring of lights from far away as apose to one big bright blur, black reflectors help with this i think.

Green devil eyes, hard to take a good shot of these too, look really cool, love how the light is contained within the lens anmd hardly any shines out forwards. Give a nice deep lens colour

all the lights

Custom switch panel i whipped up, wanted something that looked really neat, got these flush mounting rocker switches from jaycar for about 3 bucks a pop, i think you can get them in solid black too, 20mm hole saw, I like the look. forgot to get a pic of it instaleed but you get the jist, easily within rech too.

Slowly trying to phase out my cheap crap tools, nearly copped this one haha

 

[Jamie4800]

pups

 

[John86]

Nice work on the mods so far.

 

[stumpy]

I was apprehensive about doing black reflectors for projector HID's but I think after seeing your vehicle I've made up my mind... Black is a goer

Love it man, very nice bus

 

[the big rig]

Is loving the projectors making the temptation even harder

 

[Jamie4800]

Thanks guys

Painting the lights black was a hard decision to make, I like how it makes the light, especially angels eyes, look more focused instead of a big bright blur from a distance. Still haven't worked out how to do the indicators, I'm a bit apprehensive on that one. I'll figure it out soon enough, at the moment I'm kinda waiting for somebody else to figure it out first though haha

 

[couchee]

clean looking truck mate, looks like its time for some new plates

 

[Jamie4800]

Been thinking a lot about what to do next, here's my to do / wish list:

- Fix / tidy up all wiring, there’s a lot to do

- Pull off front quarter to fix the worlds most annoying squeak

- Paint bullbar and flares. Replace missing parts, one flare and one piece of plastic trim that goes under the headlights, looks crap without it.

- Paint indicators black, putting this off this I ( or hopefully somebody else ) figures out how to do it without screwing it up.

- Finish rear draws, draw fronts, handles, hinges, tie down points, strip lights, carpet....

- Plumb / wire up rear compressor and air tank.

- Nice clean up / paint of the under body and suspension parts, might use some body deadener or whatever it is to quite thinks down a bit.

- Air locker in the front.

- New tyres, BFG KM2's, still deciding on size.

- Possibly some new rims, allied beadlocked savannah's? still thinking about this.

- Either 5" superflex arms or dropboxes and one superflex arm, if I go the second option by the time I get new bushes etc wont be too much difference in price, leaning towards two arms at the moment, just be easier I reckon. Drop box option might be better on the road though

- winch, considering just a cheap tigerz11 at the moment, I wouldn't use it very much at all.

- New windscreen, got a few decent chips and the seals look a bit crappy, get one a year through my insurance anyways, sort of been saving it for when I really need it.

- Give all the paint a nice polish and touch up, remove a heaps of the scratches, not that I care too much about that cause its gonna happen again anyway but more to give it a bit of a protective coat.


hmmm what else...thats all I can think of.

 

[Mick..]

Those lights came up awesome mate. If I had of known you where going to paint your shrouds I could have sent you black ones.

As for the indicators leave it with me. I have a couple of indicators here. I'll try and seperate and I'll do a little write up with pics for future reference.

Cheers Mick.

 

[Jamie4800]

Haha yeah I wasn't sure which way I was gonna go with em. Looks heaps better all black.

Great news about the indicators :-D thanks for that mate, I didn't want to make the clear plastic go all cloudy like it does when you heat it, the lens must have a lower melting point than the glue it's self, I was gonna attempt to dremel em open or something, decided not to incase I fooked it up and had nothing to out back in the car.

 

[Mick..]

I had a play with some indicators. The one I pulled apart was an original series one indicator so it was old and had a crack in it and there glued though the middle between the indicator and parker too. What I did was remove the couple of screws around the edge and then just heated it gently with a heat gun and slowly pryed the lens off. It took about 20 minutes but if you have new indicators I'd imagine they would come apart pretty easy.

If your using new aftermarket indicators I don't think they have any screws and being new they should seperate easier. Also heat from the back of the light not the front.

Cheers Mick.

 

[Jamie4800]

I tried briefly heating one with a heat gun just around the edge, discoloured the chrome finish on the inside, not that that matters for me though, need some spare time to have a good crack at it properly.

 

[Jamie4800]

Need I say a thing?

 

[kimba11]

they look sweet man, need some fat 35s to wrap around them tho
i like how 4 days ago, those rims were an "idea"
you must be fifo spending all that dosh