Lethalcast
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I know, they look so awesome! Mine will be on this weekend!
I used a boat crank and 2x6 board aimed towards each pipe it made it a breeze I had a thicker inner wall hose so it was nearly impossible by hand apparently they make 2 different style radiator hoses. The crank I bought was $20 at tractor supply 600 pound capacity. Check out my build thread for an example.I've often thought about using this product to pull the hoses. As you pull on it, it compresses more, much like that of the chinese finger torture devices. They work great for pulling wire and can be bought in many different sizes and capacities, all the way up to 9600lbs.
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Yea I was so frustrated then found out there are 2 obviously different type hoses that ship.I used an hour of my life and my hands.
do you have plans for a mount?I needed another item to add to the Amazon cart to get free shipping and I found this. The donor car outlet was in bad shape and part of the mount is broke. It made terrible connections to the plug-in USB charger. This should work out quite well. We use one port to charge the phone and another port to run the spare phone that is connected to the OBDII scanner.
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Yep, a hole in the tunnel cap. Had one in front of the shifter. I may get two and put one in front of the shifter and another between the seats.do you have plans for a mount?
Others might have better experiences, but mine with the OBDII scanners is their communication is very cantankerous after a key cycle. Bluetooth can be a unreliable and slow to connect form of communication. Many times I found myself having to re-connect the device after starting the vehicle. You will never have instant communication at first start up. Would you want to have to go through that every time you get in the car just to have a speedometer?I encourage this. At this point I’m thinking about making a bracket and mounting an inexpensive amazon fire with OBD scanner for all my gauges. Easily removable and I can adjust brightness any downsides?
That is a very valid point. Well let’s see what you got to make that dash awesome!Others might have better experiences, but mine with the OBDII scanners is their communication is very cantankerous after a key cycle. Bluetooth can be a unreliable and slow to connect form of communication. Many times I found myself having to re-connect the device after starting the vehicle. You will never have instant communication at first start up. Would you want to have to go through that every time you get in the car just to have a speedometer?
Like I said, others may have a great setup that works much more reliable but it's hard to beat the reliability of a wired connection.
Not a whole lot. I removed the extra engine cover brackets that I won’t use. Added one for the mounting of the fuel filter, but I did that to the last frame. Also added a ground lug on the driver side engine mount (DF is doing that to all new frames now). I also cut and repositioned the coolant mount bracket for the SS/SC tank (it’s different than the base model tank). I was going to add more brackets for the side panels but ran out of time and it wasn’t really that big of an issue before. On the previous build, we added a driver side left foot test but found it was useless and never got used so I didn’t add it this time. And last but not least, added two tabs for the license plate.do anything different prepping this time around? Like any different brackets or holes?