Nice build thread. 👍🍺

 

Today I re-upgraded the fog lights, this time for good. Out with the $65 Amazon special LED fog lights (which I mostly liked because they were more actually-white instead of a 90's era incandescent yellowish glow) and in with a pair of Diode Dynamics SS3 Pro fog lights in yellow (3k kelvin)

No actual nighttime/dark pics yet.

Took the lower two at like 9PM but it's light super late these days

Difference is more noticeably to the naked eye

 

Those look much nicer for sure. Nice looking truck!

 

They're dipped ones, with the cut off, right?
I'd actually like to have some like that, the yellow is helpful in the weather you actually need fog lights in, but, i just can't for that price They're really nice though.

 

Dipped? IDK. Cutoff looks good though. That's the idea with yellow, it really does cut through fog and mist better, reflect less back to you, make that yellow center line stand out better, etc.

The price I can't is the primary headlights. Those get up to literally like $1,600 for the pair and the forum is still cluttered with people who have this, that, or the other problem with them. Yeah no.

 

Yeah, they look good, some people, both knowing and unknowingly replace their fogs with non dipped (no cut off line) so they're just flood lights, blinding the crap out of other drivers

 

Those look good. I have the same set. The light output is excellent. I think DD hit a home run when they came out with these. They were exactly what I was looking for in a fog light.

 

Okay, shocks are on. Bilstein 5100's, rear.

40 minutes total time, from deciding to do it, to finished and everything put away. Could be done in 20, but...

Biggest tip: Keep the shocks in (or put them back in) those plastic keepers that hold them partly compressed, because pushing up on the bottom of the fully extended shock, to get it up and into position, then hold it there in space with one hand while the other gets the bolt pushed through while lined up just right, can be a royal F-ing pain in the God damn ***. I'm gonna be sore

I have Penda (Or something) wheel well liners that are supposed to be carbon copies of the OEM. Highly recommend, they've been great all along, and they have cutouts that do not interfere with shock bolts.

(yes, they go boot down, with the wording rightside up, there are several pairs of drain holes for water at the bottom of each boot)




It's super simple, this video has it all:

 

What does your wheel wells measure front and back from the ground up, I like how your truck sits with the level.

 

Right now sitting in my garage, mostly empty basically, I get about 40.1" front and 42.6" rear, passenger side. That's just holding a tape measure what appears vertical, crossing the center of the wheel, ground-to-wheel well. Tires are 34" tall (275/65/20)




This is my most recent side view on level ground.

Level ground is not typical around here: