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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 10:39 PM
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Yea, I'm pumped to get the lights setup. Tabs were welded to the bottom of the tubing. It attaches to the stock mounting hardware that was there. I'll provide a picture if you are interested.
Sure, I"m not sure what stock mounting hardware you're talking about. When I did mine I drilled into the frame and tapped it to accept a 5/16" bolt
 
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ak_cowboy
Sure, I"m not sure what stock mounting hardware you're talking about. When I did mine I drilled into the frame and tapped it to accept a 5/16" bolt
AK, this is what I'm talking about. Also, thanks for your paint diagram on wiring up the driving lights with the high beams.
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 09:24 PM
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Received my grill from Grillcraft today. I installed it and hooked up the lights. I set them up to turn on when the high beams are selected. I'm going camping at the desert this week to test all this stuff out. I'll post some pics of it in action out there.
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Nachos and Beer
AK, this is what I'm talking about. Also, thanks for your paint diagram on wiring up the driving lights with the high beams.
Ok, Now I get it. You're welcome
 
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 12:40 AM
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Ok, Now I get it. You're welcome
I went ahead and soldered the 12V highbeam lightgreen/black wire to the trigger voltage on the 2 relays for my 4 Hellas. However, I don't believe this is the correct way to wire the lights up. I'm a little confused on the way the stock headlamps operate. Does that wire just trigger the highbeams or is it carrying amperage?
 
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 02:27 AM
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The stock headlights have 2 filaments in them. The middle wire on the headlight plug is the ground for both. When low beams are on, the bottom wire is hot and that illuminates one filament. When high beams are on, the top wire is hot, and illuminates the other filament (or both, not 100% sure on that)

Since you're just using the high beam wire to trigger a relay there shouldn't be any issues. I've been running mine that way since last May without any problems.
 
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 04:07 PM
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Right on. I'd feel more at ease if i was using the 12v that triggers the relay for the high beams though. I'll track it down when I have the time
 
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Old Mar 14, 2012 | 08:11 PM
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Hope you guys didn't lose interest. Here are some shots with the custom leaf pack I picked up at National Spring and the new upper control arms from Camburg.
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Old Mar 14, 2012 | 10:17 PM
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none at all

whats your angles looking like up front now?
 
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Old Mar 14, 2012 | 10:35 PM
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After I got the truck aligned I was really impressed, the truck handles awesomely on the street and off-road. Had the truck up around 50 for a couple miles out in the desert. The leaf pack has to be hands down the best investment I've made on the truck. Give the truck a little extra gas when you are coming up on a big bump/whoop the front end floats over and the rear end soaks it up. I asked the guys at the alignment shop to increase the castor over the OEM specs, but they had to max it out to correct the alignment with the shocks adjusted to 2" lift. No big deal, as long as they could align it, right? Looks like the UCA also increased the travel by about 2". It is way stronger and easy to service, it's recommended you spray some Teflon into the uniball (as it could be noisy after some use), and grease the UCA through the Zerk fittings that were provided.
 

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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 04:28 PM
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love the shocks i want to do that so bad on mine instead of a lift. if you don't mind me asking how much did the upper control arms from Camburg cost? and what do your angles look like does it look like it took the stress off the front end?
 
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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 09:05 PM
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The arms run around 700, they are on the camburg website. The front 4WD CVs are still at a slight angle compared to stock because I have the shock coil adjusted to give 2" of lift.
 
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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 09:28 PM
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The arms run around 700, they are on the camburg website. The front 4WD CVs are still at a slight angle compared to stock because I have the shock coil adjusted to give 2" of lift.
ok thanks! keep us up to date!
 
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Old Mar 21, 2012 | 01:45 AM
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Wow!
 
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Old Nov 24, 2012 | 06:26 PM
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Looks awesome! I still want to run your similar suspension setup. How has it been holding up?

Also curious about your on-board air system. I was thinking about this one:
http://shop.air-zenith.com/dual-ob2basickit-1-1.aspx

Let me know what you think!

Thanks!
 
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