Faffed about sorting a minor electrical issue that took far more fucking about than I anticipated.
Issue:
One of the two rear license plate plates was very dim, other was fine. These are single wire & ground directly to the bumper.
Simple fix: sort out the iffy ground on the right (dim) one.
Did I take that path? Did I fuck.
Bought two spiffy new LED lights that are duel wire. Ran the original single wire to the brown wire on the new lights, attached longer wire via bullet connectors to the white (ground) wire. then used a 2:1 bullet connector so I could then run one wire from that to the chassis.
Looking up I could see another ground had been attached to the frame using a self-driller screw into the chassis. Simples, just unscrew that, attach the LED ground to the same spot. Got it unscrewed 1 turn & it cammed out. Fuck. ok, screw it back in... nope, It ain't going that way either. Snip wire, attach new connector.. so now I have two ring connectors...
There's a 6mm hole right next to the self driller, sand paint off to bare metal, drop stainless 1in M6 bolt in the hole, install both ring connectors & a M6 Nyloc.
So I managed to turn a 5 minute job into a 90min faffery experience (including a run to the store for some wire & the clean up of 200+ electrical connectors all over the driveway after I accidentally tripped over the fucking thing while the lid was open)
Accomplished a big project on the 'truck this weekend.
I swapped out the duff bulb on the under-hood light for a new one. Altho given the output I wonder why I bothered.
ZRX61 wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 10:42 pm
the clean up of 200+ electrical connectors all over the driveway after I accidentally tripped over the fucking thing while the lid was open)
ZRX61 wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 3:57 pm
It was right by a 1/2in wide expansion joint in the concrete, so needle nose pliers were required to retrieve more than a few pieces.
Just need to install the chicken lights & step mats tomorrow...Put the long pieces on at the paint shop as it was a 2 man job, did the other four at home.
Color is a much closer match than it appears in the pics.
ZRX61 wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2024 2:42 pm
The photo guy on Mulholland got a bunch of pics last Sunday & as I'm a repeat customer, he gave me a 50% discount
ZRX61 wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 12:48 am
Just need to install the chicken lights & step mats tomorrow...Put the long pieces on at the paint shop as it was a 2 man job, did the other four at home.
Color is a much closer match than it appears in the pics.
Can that actually be parked anywhere without paying property taxes?
