What Did You Do With Your 120 Today?
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Worked on cleaning up discolored headlights with Harbor Freight headlight kit. Decent results. Exterior washed, clay bar and buff. Then truck to shop for timing belt, water pump and tensioner. Done for just under a grand. Last changed at 90k, truck is at 216k. Happy to be able to do preventative maintenance.
It's lengthy, but easy actually. Here are the steps;
1. Remove front bumper to access headlights,.
2. Remove the metal frames from the front of headlights.
3. Remove the 3 fasteners holding the headlight assembly in, unplug bulbs from rear and pull entire assembly out.
4. Prepare headlight for baking, remove the two foam pads from the rear, remove the lower wire harness, the rest of the bulbs, and the 4 Phillips screws holding the lens.
5. Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
6. Place assembly on cookie sheet in oven for 10 minutes to soften the butyl holding the lens.
7. Remove from oven using gloves, and starting in a corner peel the lens away from the base. I used a flathead driver and a plastic pry. Take care when pulling apart that you do not get butyl on the projectors. Pull each half straight away from each other until the butyl releases.
8. Remove reflector bowl from lens by removing the two Phillips screws holding it, then pop out the orange side reflector from the keeper tabs. There is a small circular cut out behind the orange diffuser you can stick your finger into and flex a little to release it. The bottom comes out first, then swing to remove top tab.
9. Paint the reflector bowl. I used flat black paint/primer suitable for plastic.
10. Remove old butyl from assembly. Put the rear assembly back into the 250 degree oven for 7 or 8 minutes to soften the old butyl again, then quickly dig it out with a flathead driver. I used a heat gun as well for the last little bit that cooled before I could get to it so I didn't have to bake it again.
11. Install new butyl rope into channel on headlight assembly.
12. After paint has dried, reinstall reflector bowl into front lens, taking care to not scratch the paint.
13. Bake rear assembly for 7-8 minutes to soften new butyl rope.
14. Remove with gloves, and place lens back on rear assembly, starting with a corner, press hard, and get all the clips to seat.
15. Reinstall the 4 screws previously removed that lock lens to assembly.
16. Some people do another bake after this step, but I did not.
17. Reinstall foam pieces, harness and bulbs.
18. Reinstall Headlights, brackets, bumper and plastic trim pieces.
19. Enjoy!
Nice!!!
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Installed this badge on the grill
Installed the JW Offroad 3.5 inch hugger spare tire mount and plate bracket today, which is a real treat to do by yourself, and also installed Lamin-x yellow on the fog lenses.
What camera do you use? Images are sharp!!
Well damn!
How exactly did that recovery happen??
Is that Hood or Jefferson in the background?
And nice “passenger”...looks a bit like a DD mk18
Is this part of your regular OR wheeling gear?
Seems excessive for Wheeling around P-town
Good use of the highlift and Black Rock Brews for a successful recovery= win!
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That's actually a Noveskie build. Funny enough, there was a Mk18 tucked in the rear drawer. That day. I do love DD SBR's.
The Mt in the back is Hood.
The recovery was done with 2 10ft logs wedged under the passanger front wheel after lifting the corner with the hi-lift.
I tried using the jack as a come-along off the back. No dice.
I tried winching off a burried log up front. No dice. Maxtrax were too short and the hole was too deep also. I wasn't able to find the bottom of the hole with the 10ft log. I'm guessing it was a mountain spring.
Is this part of your regular OR wheeling gear?
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Seems excessive for Wheeling around P-town
Good use of the highlift and Black Rock Brews for a successful recovery= win!
Yes.
After 90 days of Portland playing Thunderdome, you wouldn't catch me there for anything on a day off (M4 sitting shotgun or not!).
The hi-lift truly saved the day! If I didn't have a long travel jack, that would have been a call-a-lifeline situation after hiking 12 miles to cell service.
I had buddies with me so it wasn't solo, but I was definitely glad I had a fridge full of food/water, a squad medical bag, clothes, sleeping bags and marking equipment! I just wished I had more coffee!
An older Samsung Galaxy S9+.
Is this part of your regular OR wheeling gear?
Daniel Defense
Noveske
GX470
Coffee...
Are we related?
Had some fun up in the hills above Ridgecrest, had to air down to 20psi to make it up these hills. Lots of loose rock and sand but once aired down it was no problem at all! 107 degrees outside and the coolant/trans temps were 195/180 respectively which seems like decently low numbers given the conditions. 
Mounted a cheapo Amazon single row light bar using the TPMS switch (all sensors were removed anyway). $40 well spent I reckon!
Mounted a cheapo Amazon single row light bar using the TPMS switch (all sensors were removed anyway). $40 well spent I reckon!
Replaced all my missing clips and got these in the mail.
I like those little cup pockets, just did Tha a few weeks ago myself.