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Let the build begin! I picked up my 06 Mineral Grey Metallic QC, SB, 4x4 HO 5.9 on Friday.

Thus far I've been running around coordinating with shops and setting up appointments. I've put the ANZO front projectors and Recon LED Tails and 3rd Brake light on. I'm in the process of de-badging the truck but it is cold out and that gets time consuming - hoping to have all the badges off the sides today. Monday the bed and rockers are getting Line-X'd with their ultra UV protected product. The nittos and WER rims are sitting at the shop and my lockers/winch/fab fours front bumper/onboard air will go on along with the Carli 3.0 Dominator this week.

I'll update pics as things progress.

First MODS - Anzo front projector style headlights and Recon LED Tail and 3rd Brake lights.

 

[curt243]

Did you put HID's in the Anzo's?

 

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Nope - was crunched for time yesterday. Going to mess with those today.

 

[curt243]

How do you like the lights, are the good quality? What about bulb size do they take the same as stock? Sorry for the questions I have HID's in the factory heads and would love to go to projectors.

 

[Shorts]

Nice truck :thumbsup:


Where are you going for the LineX? I need to get my bed done.

 

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How do you like the lights, are the good quality? What about bulb size do they take the same as stock? Sorry for the questions I have HID's in the factory heads and would love to go to projectors.

I really like the lights and the HALOs look freakin sweet at night. I'll get some night shots tonight. I'll post up detailed pics of the HID install into the ANZO projectors once its done. My brother is done with the garage so I'm going to go downstairs and install the recon LED marker lights on the roof and do the HID Solutions headlight install. Have to wait for the Fab Fours bumper to get lined and installed before I do the fogs. As for the bulb sizes everything is plug and play save for the 12V LED hookup - simple stuff, nothing really intuitive.

Nice truck :thumbsup:


Where are you going for the LineX? I need to get my bed done.

Thanks! I'm going with LINE-X of West Fort Worth. I talked with David the owner and he's a good guy and does a heck of a lot of business. I think he's the #1 volume LINE-X guy in Texas. Anyway I was able to get a great deal because I'm having him line my bed, rockers, nerfs and front bumper. Check them out on the web or shoot him an email.

 

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I installed a set of Smoked Recon LED Roof Marker lights yesterday and started the tedious de-badging process. Not fun in cold weather but with a heat gun, plastic scraper, and some chemical adhesive disolvent I was able to take off the driver's door "RAM 2500".

Night shot of the markers and ANZO projectors in the accessory lights position. That annoying light off to the passenger's side is a street lamp. Behold my laziness - too much time to clone stamp it out in photoshop.

 

[mzcummins]

Why didn't you wire the LED lights?

 

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Why didn't you wire the LED lights?

The directions that came with the unit were crap so I followed the instructions off their website and the LEDs would not come on. I was crunched for time so I just let it go since they really aren't for anything other than looks. The HALOs, blinkers, driving and brights work fine. I'll take another look at them this evening when I put on the HIDs.

I'm troubleshooting the issue on a different thread and found the answer from a guy that hd the exact same problem. Apparently on the 06 ANZO says to use the factory plug to run the HALOs and LEDs. What they don't say is that the polarity needs to be reversed so the pin that is hot on the factory plug is cold on the headlight connector. Two ways to fix this: don't use the factory plug and wire the headlight like an 07 or 08 or reverse the polarity of the factory connector. I'm just going to cut the wires about 3in. from the plug and swap hot and cold leads. I find it odd that with a polarity issue the HALOs work but the LEDs do not, but I don't have a schematic in front of me. I know why an LED will not operate with a -12V dc voltage applied to it but the HALOs?? Weird.

 

[07Bighorn]

Looks good and sounds like it will be quite the set up...
I'm jealous...

 

[psd1]

Very nice, your a brave man drilling your roof, hope yours dont leak like a alot of folks on the boards do! Cant wait to watch the build, very envious of folks who go whole hog right off the bat...my build process will be for the life of my truck!!!

 

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Looks good and sounds like it will be quite the set up...
I'm jealous...

Thanks. Been salivating over this thing for a year and it is finally coming together. All of the slick rigs here and on DTX have been my inspiration.

Very nice, your a brave man drilling your roof, hope yours dont leak like a alot of folks on the boards do! Cant wait to watch the build, very envious of folks who go whole hog right off the bat...my build process will be for the life of my truck!!!

I tell you what, once the measuring and marking were done I put the lights up to see how they looked, then measured again and put the lights back up, then measured again... that's how uncomfortable I was drilling into a virgin roof. As for leaks, I have a bead of silicon around the lip of the light (outer radius), on the screw holes and the wiring holes as well as a ring around those holes. So I have two rings of silicon around each hole then silicon sealing the holes themselves. Above the headliner I have silicon on every drilled hole and screw/wire that pokes through. I have serious problems if this thing leaks because I've taken every precaution and then some.

 

[cummin95]

great start man i wish i had the green to throw down like that i would give anything for the carli kit but its so pricy looking forward to watching the build great looking truck

 

[mzcummins]

The directions that came with the unit were crap so I followed the instructions off their website and the LEDs would not come on. I was crunched for time so I just let it go since they really aren't for anything other than looks. The HALOs, blinkers, driving and brights work fine. I'll take another look at them this evening when I put on the HIDs.

I'm troubleshooting the issue on a different thread and found the answer from a guy that hd the exact same problem. Apparently on the 06 ANZO says to use the factory plug to run the HALOs and LEDs. What they don't say is that the polarity needs to be reversed so the pin that is hot on the factory plug is cold on the headlight connector. Two ways to fix this: don't use the factory plug and wire the headlight like an 07 or 08 or reverse the polarity of the factory connector. I'm just going to cut the wires about 3in. from the plug and swap hot and cold leads. I find it odd that with a polarity issue the HALOs work but the LEDs do not, but I don't have a schematic in front of me. I know why an LED will not operate with a -12V dc voltage applied to it but the HALOs?? Weird.

I guess I got lucky with my lights, I just wired mine to the running lights and everything works great.

 

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Ya it was a really simple fix. just had to pop of the connector in the inside of the headlight housing and reverse the leads. What was throwing me for a loop was that the other side of the conector plugs into the facotry harness and that is a keyed connector - no rotating that 180 degrees to switch polarity, it wouldn't have fit back together.

Simple fix was just over thinking things. The connector on the inside of the headlight is not keyed so I just rotated it 180 degrees and booya - LEDS are on now. Was too tired to bust out the nikon and tripod will take some low light shots early tomorrow. That'll give me a chance to show you all the LINE-X'd bed and rockers... it looks frickin sweet. I got the Ultra stuff with Kevlar and UV protectant.

 

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Update

It's been a few days and I've done a few things: bed and rockers LINE-X'd, wired the LEDs on the ANZOs, installed the Corbeaus, debadged the rest of the truck and worked on a few things that isn't on the truck yet.

Bed with the crap plastic liner.

Bed With Line-X Ultra (UV Protectant + Kevlar).

Profile with the Rockers Line-X'd. Note - I have since removed all the badges on the truck. I like the clean look - just haven't had a chance to snap some shots of the truck totally de-badged. If the weather holds I'll get some more shots today.

ANZO Leds Wired. The iso, shutter speed and f stop are the same as the earlier pictures so you have an even basis for comparison, I just took it an hour later in the morning so there is more ambient light. The tripod and focal length may be a bit off but oh well. Discerning photo critics should be on fredmiranda.com, not here.

Stock Seats

Corbeau LG1s - Black and Grey Cloth

I really like the seats but they do take some getting used to. The brackets were a cinch to install and the factory power seat setup goes unaltered so those of you with power seats, go to Corbeau's site and they should have a bracket for your application. I bought 4 point harnesses without thinking about a very important detail: the shoulder mounting point. Shoulder harnesses need to mount at a 45 deg angle or less which means that unless you have a roll bar there is nowhere to mount the shoulder harness other than the roof. You could run them down the back of the seat and mount them to where the factory seat bracket mounts are but that puts the belts at a 90 deg angle which is not safe. Long story short - avoid the 4 point belts, the point is safety - not looks and unless you have a roll cage in your quad /mega cab there is no place to safely mount the shoulder harness without limiting access to the rear seats.

** Edit - pics added of the seat brackets at a member's request.

Above: looking down at the seat bracket

Above: profile shot of the bracket

Stock electric seat assembly (the only thing I had to remove were four 1/2 in. screws that secured the factory seat to this frame) Note the rust: old boy that owned it before me must have lived by the ocean.

Above:This is an FYI shot. You will have already mounted the seat to the frame and have the whole thing ready to install at this point but I included this so you all could see how the frame mates up. Note: in this pic the L bracket that corbeau supplies to mount the seat controls to is not installed. Its an L Bracket with two threaded holes for the stock control to mount to.

Above: head on shot of the seat with the full bracket (and L bracket - bottom Left of the frame) installed.

 

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great start man i wish i had the green to throw down like that i would give anything for the carli kit but its so pricy looking forward to watching the build great looking truck

Thanks - appreciate the compliment. I worked overseas for two years so I had plenty of time to think about what I wanted to do. As for the money I ordered these parts over the span of three months and let me tell you, the pocket book lightened up dramatically in that time but I was overseas with no car or house payment and no daily expenses (food, utilities, rent, ect.).

The budget ceiling I gave myself was that of a brand new '10 2500 4x4 all optioned out. The dominator 3.0 is by far the most expensive single group of add-on upgrades but my rig was a one owner Texas towing machine and them Texans love to put miles on their diesels. The front end would have had to be rebuilt anyway since it rides like it has 97k miles on it so I figured that into the cost of upgrading to the dominator 3.0 and it brought the astronomical price of the setup down. Something to remember as the build goes on: the cost of my truck (vehicle + add-ons) will cost less that a brand new '10 2500 4x4 QC SB Cummins all optioned out.

 

[Shorts]

Dang! Really looking GOOD!


I gotta call the LineX guys. Great job on the bed.

 

[mzcummins]

Lookin good man :thumbsup:

 

[ban89]

Love the seats man!!!!

Want to see you get that Carli 3.0 kit on. By the time you do you'll need a full cage so you might be able to use those 4 pt harnesses. arty018:

Hurry and get that thing done then meet us out in Glamis to break it in. :thumbsup: