One of the things holding me back on this install is that I need to paint mine and have been thinking through different color combination options. Has anyone attempted to paint one of these themselves? I may just go have it powdercoated again.
RTH Rear ARB Bumper install question.
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One of the things holding me back on this install is that I need to paint mine and have been thinking through different color combination options. Has anyone attempted to paint one of these themselves? I may just go have it powdercoated again.
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LHS swing out tire carrier and reversing light kit showed up yesterday. Woo. Hopefully I can get it thrown on the bumper this weekend. I plan to change the ipf light in the kit to a led flood and also install an overide switch so I can turn the light on when the truck is turned off to use it as a camp light. I may also wire the two rear facing led floods that are mounted on my roof rack into the same circuit / relay.
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What would be really sweet, IMO, would be if you could hook up a 3-way switch to toggle those extra reverse lights. On w/ reverse, off, and On. The third on being from outside the normal relay circuit, i.e. available when the truck is turned off.
I have the PFran bulbs, and for around the driveway and at the mall, it's plenty good enough. all of our driveways go "up" a little, so if I switch on the extra 4" 2x2 lights I bought from Nick, I literally light up the living room across the street. So instead I've just got a separate switch for those lights, run from the 2nd battery's fuse panel. so at any time someone can hit that switch and light up the back of the truck.
But what would be awesome would be the additional option of being able to have the lights be triggered by relay from the reverse lights, so when I am out in more remote areas & actually want all that reverse lighting automatically, I'd have a switch for that. Just seemed like more work than I wanted to put into it at the time, but figured I'd toss that out since you're more or less still in the planning phase..
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Thanks Tim. That's basically what I am planning only without the off. I think I can wire it so that either the switched constant hot from the aux batt or the reverse lights can control the circuit. Basically the oem switch from Slee will control a low amp constant hot circuit that feeds the same pole on a relay that the reverse light circuit will power. I will then wire the lights to the relay and they relay to a rear mounted constant hot fuse block running off of my aux battery.
And how does the ride feel?
I assume that the non-AHC coils are heavier/thicker and therefore carrying the load more then the AHC.
The system still works wih L/N/H?
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That makes sense. Any risk to that relay if it were to somehow get "double power?" so when you flip the switch to on, but are in reverse.. asking because I don't know, I've never wired up something that way but I can see your diagram in my head.
I would still argue for an off switch though- similar discussion to why I put a switch on my DRL's. sometimes I just don't want to advertise...
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Much better. Before It had trouble getting into H. and when heavily laden it would drop to L. Now with the bar crank and the Non-AHC springs. It freely goes between L N H and rides much better.
The NON-AHC springs are MUCH thicker and carry much more load vs. the AHC springs.
HTH
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That makes sense. Any risk to that relay if it were to somehow get "double power?" so when you flip the switch to on, but are in reverse.. asking because I don't know, I've never wired up something that way but I can see your diagram in my head.
I would still argue for an off switch though- similar discussion to why I put a switch on my DRL's. sometimes I just don't want to advertise...
The switch may end up mounted in the rear by the storage drawer, and then this could never happen. However, I'm almost positive that two low amp 12v sources will not hurt anything. (Still verifying.)
As for Stealth mode, My LX has lights that stay lit no matter what position I put the light switch in, if the engine is running, so I will have a few circuits to override if I am looking for stealth. I like your idea.
