Treypal's Raptor Build and Prep

[treypal]

90k miles. Sort of at the dgaf point.

 

[Yukon Joe]

Good job. Is that for the radio group buy you had going on?

Did you buy your tuner yet?

Joe

 

[treypal]

Good job. Is that for the radio group buy you had going on?

Did you buy your tuner yet?

Joe

No. I already had a radio. I just wanted a permanent mount.

No tuner yet either.

 

[treypal]

Installed my raptor retrofit headlights last night.

Install notes. If you get the amber rings, The pink wire is negative and the white is positive. I mounted the ballast to the suggested location, but I added a few heavy zip ties to keep them from vibrating too much.

The battery hookup and ground wires use spade terminals, I plan on replacing them with ring connectors.

 

[gordhunt]

Wow those look great

Sent from my Galaxy S3

 

[SwampKing]

Those look great! Looks like you attempted a wash there pal? They resemble mine a bit too, LoL!.....
While I was hooking up my 80mm morimoto rings, I called TRS to verify if polarity would be an issue....they had said that it wouldn't matter the polarity, can be hooked up either way.

 

[Phyguy]

Nice!

 

[imdubious]

that looks good i might see what it take to retrofit rings to a 2013 hid

 

[SwampKing]

that looks good i might see what it take to retrofit rings to a 2013 hid

$$$. LoL

 

[treypal]

Added outlaw raptor claws and Baja Designs Fuegos HID Driving Beam. I used the "Broomstick Method" for the light claw install. Did it by myself in about an hour. The hardest part was getting enough clearance to get the front bolt to go in. After that it was just wedging the nut under the light mount, which i found worked best by going in from the windshield side of the mount not the hood side.

I had to fab up a wiring harness, but BD provides a new weatherpack for each light, so you can build off of that. The build quality on these lights is amazing. Everything is super tight, the finish is perfect, they have an adjustment knob. Well worth the pricetag. I'd bet these will outlast 3 of the $100 lights, at which point you could have just bought the Fuego to begin with.

Also installed my tiregate this weekend. This was a fairly painful install. My bed must be pretty tweaked, it took a bunch of adjustments to get everything to line up. Including taking loose the stock tailgate pivots, which is going to make it hard to get the stock tailgate back on. (I Think.) Once I got it all installed, I put the tire on the gate, took everything loose, then re-tightened it for the weight of the tire. The gate is a tight fit into the bed side of the system, but I like it that way. Pics to follow.