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Old Jan 4, 2011
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Lets stop being gay and spill the beans.
 
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Old Jan 4, 2011
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lol post pics of your lights
 
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Old Jan 4, 2011
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Originally Posted by ranger4.0
lol post pics of your lights
Damn you! Well since its out in the air now..

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Old Jan 4, 2011
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oh come on im dying to see them! i havent got mine yet!!!! im praying i can get them this week
 
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Old Jan 5, 2011
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Ill be sending your new mod friday laz.
 
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Old Jan 5, 2011
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sick!
 
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Old Jan 5, 2011
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what the hell else did you get?
 
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Old Jan 5, 2011
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This one I can't tell you till i get 2 other pieces to go what he is sendin me lol
 
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Old Jan 5, 2011
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Looks good! Making tabs for the lights or do you have different plans?

BTW... what are you up to on Saturday morning? I'm going to be in Kitchener all morning waiting on the Mazda while it gets 3M film put on. I was thinking if you were around we could finally do the diff cover/dome light swap?
 
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Old Jan 5, 2011
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Behind the grille!

I shouldn't be up to anything Saturday morning! Shoot me a txt friday night on where your gonna be lol
 
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Sounds like a plan.
 
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Old Jan 10, 2011
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Sorry for the Delay on this update! Friday night I went to meet up with Ranger4.0 to install my new speakers, headunit and hella's but only got the speakers installed because the harness I got with the radio is a mess so Kyle is going to help me make a new more tidy one and the hella's I have to make some custom mountin brackets because of my Trans Cooler..

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Old Jan 10, 2011
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Yeah the Avic wiring harnesses do get pretty messy. Lookin good though
 
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Old Jan 11, 2011
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let me know when you get a new harness for the truck.

it wasnt so much that the harness was a mess... that i can deal with. a lot of connections were just twisted wire and electrical taped together. thats just asking for a fire and i was not going to put that in his truck... and i really dont understand the need for 4 connections in one wire? it was like that for half the harness!!! wires were cut off everywhere and just left hanging. it is easier to just start fresh and do the job right instead of trying to fix someone elses lazy half *** work
 
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Old Jan 11, 2011
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Originally Posted by ranger4.0
let me know when you get a new harness for the truck.

it wasnt so much that the harness was a mess... that i can deal with. a lot of connections were just twisted wire and electrical taped together. thats just asking for a fire and i was not going to put that in his truck... and i really dont understand the need for 4 connections in one wire? it was like that for half the harness!!! wires were cut off everywhere and just left hanging. it is easier to just start fresh and do the job right instead of trying to fix someone elses lazy half *** work
Oh wow weird, yeah good call.
 
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Old Jan 11, 2011
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Originally Posted by ranger4.0
let me know when you get a new harness for the truck.

it wasnt so much that the harness was a mess... that i can deal with. a lot of connections were just twisted wire and electrical taped together. thats just asking for a fire and i was not going to put that in his truck... and i really dont understand the need for 4 connections in one wire? it was like that for half the harness!!! wires were cut off everywhere and just left hanging. it is easier to just start fresh and do the job right instead of trying to fix someone elses lazy half *** work
If you are talking about the harness from the radio i sold to laz i want to clarify that this crappy work was done by a futureshop installer.... NOT me.. :) thank you !
 
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Old Jan 11, 2011
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Thanks for pointing that out! I was really hoping it wasn't you. I got the new harness today so maybe this weekend I will get it installed!
 
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Old Jan 24, 2011
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Out with the Old! In with the New!

The stock battery was leaking around the negative terminal so with my Birthday money I went and got a new one.

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Old Jan 24, 2011
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Nice!

I've started putting these on all my batteries:

Amazon.com: BATTERY TERMINAL PROTECTORS--CD/2: Automotive

Helps keep the terminals from getting a lot of crud on them
 
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Old Jan 24, 2011
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How do those work?
 
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Old Jan 24, 2011
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You just put them on the terminal under the terminal clamp thing. Helps keep the gunk from creeping up the terminals and spreading all over the battery like your stock one did.



Its just a piece of felt thats treated with a chemical to prevent corrison. Also helps easily spot the positive/negative wires for those that aren't very knowledgeable about cars.
 
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Old Jan 24, 2011
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ahh! I'll have to get some when I get new terminals for it!
 
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Old Jan 24, 2011
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I don't know if I want to spend $1.53 on those thats an expensive solution I'll stick to a putting a penny on my battery lol.
 
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Old Jan 24, 2011
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$1.53 is a lot cheaper than having to replace the terminals in my opinion.
 
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Old Jan 24, 2011
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Originally Posted by 04blackedge
$1.53 is a lot cheaper than having to replace the terminals in my opinion.
Yea thats a good idea. I had my positive terminal break on me a couple weeks ago cause it was so corroded.
 
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